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This June has been a busy month for Apple. While Apple’s acquisitions have historically been low-key affairs, this month has ...

In Taiwan, the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and Fujitsu have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, that will see the ...

According to a recent report released by Tata Consultancy Services, enterprises are recognising the importance of digital initiatives to their ...

Max Kanaskar is an Associate for Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company). He has extensive experience in IT capability development and data ...

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The IBM Watson team have announced the first consumer-facing commerical use of Watson's natural language technology. The technology will be ...

Google X has launched a new initiative called “Baseline Study” which aims to help clinicians and doctors better understand the ...

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo last week announced a $55 million grant for a number of projects at the ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), UK’s data protection watchdog, today released a 50-page report warning businesses to not forget their ...

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner Julie Brill has voiced concerns about the way consumer apps collect and use health data. ...

Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced a $50 million investment in Hortonworks, a big data company that provides enterprise version of Apache Hadoop ...

Synapsify, a startup whose software ranks the most important statements in a body of text, have announced a new £85,000 ...

This year marks the 101st anniversary of the world’s largest annual sporting event, “Le Tour de France.”  The three-week competition attracts ...

We met with Adam Drake to hear his thoughts on Machine Learning and the Big Data ecosystem. Adam is currently ...

The European Central Bank admitted today that hackers have broken into its database and stolen personal information. The ECB said ...

Big Data has been making noise in almost every facet of corporate America.  From targeted marketing to reducing manufacturing defects, ...

At Cisco's recent IoE symposium in Chicago, the commander of public safety information technology for the Chicago Police Department discussed ...

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Tata Consultancy Services (TSC) announced earlier this week a new partnership with MapR to help enterprise customers leverage big data ...

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In the 1940s, IMB President Thomas Watson allegedly predicted the world would need only five computers. Over the past decade, ...

Bose Corporation have posted a raft of new job oppurtunities on LinkedIn, based around machine learning, data science and network ...

Sumo Logic, an operational & machine data intelligence provider, yesterday announced that they had by named a "Big Data Competency ...

The popular jobs portal and review site, Glassdoor, announced on Tuesday a new tool to help the 9.5 million long-term ...

Teradata has announced the acquisition of two companies to accelerate the growth of its big data capabilities. On Tuesday, Teradata ...

Alpine Data Labs today unveiled Alpine Chorus 4.0, "the industry's first Advanced Analytics enterprise platform that enables universal data discovery ...

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In a blog post published yesterday, the renowned data scientist Hilary Mason announced the launch of a new startup called ...

Doctors in the Carolinas Health System are making patient care a little more personal. The system, which includes more than ...

In an article recently published by the Wall Street Journal, it was revealed that Vodafone and Imperial College in London ...

Press Release- Splunk Inc., provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced the general availability of ...

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Next month, MIT researchers will present a breakthrough discovery that could change the way Web and mobile apps are written ...

Rarely a week goes by without us reporting on a new enterprise Hadoop use case, partnernship or integration. But this ...

If you thought Chief Data Officers could only be found inside large enterprises, think again. The city of San Francisco ...

In a report recently published by IDC, it was suggested that cloud technologies are significantly disrupting infrastructure sales in EMEA, ...

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