In our cartographic overview of the big data ecosystem, we stated a Big Data environment should allow you to store, ...

Global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company Accenture has added a new collaboration to its list of recent partnerships. ...

Big Data - Bigger Challenge The volume of net new data being created each year is growing exponentially — a ...

The advances in the field of speech recognition over the past couple of years have been huge. Since Microsoft began ...

Imagine knowing which buildings would catch on fire, which people wouldn't pay their loans, or to solve overcrowding in California's ...

In a letter sent to Microsoft employees yesterday, Satya Nadella declared that the company is shifting its focus from Steve Ballmer’s ...

The public transport provider of San Diego, the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS), is now using big data analysis in order ...

Facebook is again under attack, this time by U.S Senator Mark R. Warner, who is asking the Federal Trade Commission ...

SAP announced yesterday two initiatives that will aim to use Big Data to help better understand the planet’s diversity and ...

We met with Toby Rush, the CEO of Eyeverify, at the Finovate conference in San Jose. Toby is a 13 year ...

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: BIRT), The BIRT Company™ and the leader in personalized analytics and insights, today announced the immediate availability of ...

According to his LinkedIn profile, Robert Muir is Mongolia-based Ghostbuster for Elasticsearch. Any activities involving the elimination of supernatural entities ...

On the 16th and 17th of July, Berlin will once again be overun with pioneers from the creative and technological ...

Data Origami, a new startup focused on developing learning techniques, tools, libraries and common solutions that data scientists and analysts ...

Earlier in the month we reported on Germany's national team working with IT giant SAP for the current World Cup ...

Accel Partners are putting their money behind a price optimization SAAS for the hospitality industry, which uses big data to ...

To say the Open Data Institude (ODI) know a thing or two about big data would be understatement. In the ...

Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky started Numenta with the intention of modeling and mimicing how the human brain processes information. ...

IBM announced yesterday that it would invest $3 billion over the next five years to develop processors and create the ...

EMC, a provider of IT storage hardware solutions, announced yesterday that it has acquired TwinStrata, an enterprise cloud storage company. ...

In an announcement on Monday TIBCO Software Inc. presented the strong performance of its analytics and data discovery platform,TIBCO Spotfire®, ...

A group of tech giants has come together to develop an open-source code that is applicable to all wireless—connected devices. ...

We recently discussed the pitfalls of big data with Gartner's Research VP, creator of the 3 V's and all-round big ...

IBM announced yesterday that it has embarked on a major collaboration with China’s educations system to focus on addressing the ...

Although the days of endless drawers of VCR tapes are over, home videos are still alive and well. With cameras ...

In an effort to improve its response to buying trends and costumer preferences, sportswear giant Adidas is now starting to ...

Cloud-based mapping service CartoDB has released a new beta version of their open-source tool Odyssey.js. With a grant $35,000 grant ...

Press Release- Actian Corporation (“Actian”) extends its leadership in big data analytics by announcing today that industry heavyweights including Hortonworks, ...

Over the past few years, music subscription services have seen incredible growth, with revenues up by 51 percent in 2013 ...

In collaboration with a small group of other companies, Modernizing Medicine, a company developing electronic medical record systems out of ...

In Western Ontario, Canada researchers have (with the help of IBM Canada) set out to gather unprecedented amounts of data ...

While cloud technology can offer several benefits to businesses, it is not without its downsides and risks. One of the ...

Press Release- At the Spark Summit 2014, GridGain™ Systems, provider of the leading open source In-Memory Computing (IMC) Platform, announced ...

Opendoor, a home-buying startup headed by Keith Rabois, announced yesterday that it has raised $9.95 million from a series of ...

Partners Capgemini and Cloudera have blissfully co-existing since the autumn of last year. Now, they're taking their relationship to the ...

We've talked alot of the the potentially nefarious uses of big data, but few would argue that when it comes ...

The question of who is the greatest football player of all time has been a topic of public debate for ...

In a recent Forrester Consulting report, it was revealed that more than three quarters of Australian organisations are planning to ...

Bol.com is an online retail portal based out of the Netherlands. They sell over 8 million products, stocking everything from ...

The Dataconomy Newsletter is a weekly round-up of all of the major data science and AI happenings of the last ...

A recently released study is challenging America's political narrative about the consent of the public toward the use of drones as instruments ...

Big Data has an alluring promise: crunch all of your datas and find out all these very important unknown things ...

Twitter has recently implemented a loop count for it's micro-movie platform Vine. This new feature, based on data collected since ...

It goes without saying the US Postal System is immense. It also, unsurprisingly, collects a vast amount of data- parcels ...

In a recent speech, Google CEO Larry Page claimed that big data analysis such as Google Flu Trends would be ...

After a four-month investigation by the Washington Post, it was revealed on Saturday that only 10 percent of data intercepted ...

The Russian government, the State Duma, has passed a bill in both houses which mandates foreign web firms must store ...

Last week, IBM made the headlines on a number of occasions: firstly for teaming with Bon Appetite to build a ...

Earlier this week we featured a guest post from Jamal Khawaja, in which he outlined four key rules for knowing ...

This week we saw IBM take further steps into the culinary world, having already perfected their own BBQ sauce. Google ...