The analytics startups market was a hive of activity last week. As well as more established companies making exciting announcements, ...

Nigeria telecommunication operators will be competing to upgrade their big data technologies over the next few years to ensure they ...

  We caught up with Sandra Kwak, Director of Marketing and Ecosystem Partnerships at US-based Big Data startup Autogrid, to ...

Last Friday saw AT&T presenting new prototypes and discussing the future of technology at their Innovation Showcase in New York. ...

The Chinese search giant, Baidu, announced last week that it has hired the head of Google’s “deep learning” project, Andrew ...

There seems to be a recent trend for installations allowing the public to visualise and experience Big Data. Yesterday, we ...

'Did you know data has become a 21st century design material?' This is the question posed by the exhibition, Chicago: ...

When it comes to marketing a product, Amazon ratings can make or break a business. I've lost count of the ...

Posiq, a company that aims to help restaurants enhance customer relationship through big data, announced yesterday that it received $3.2 ...

Acxiom announced on Wednesday that it had agreed to acquire ad-tech startup LiveRamp, a company that helps marketers use their ...

Big changes have occured in the Israeli firefighting system since the devastating fire in Carmel in 2010. Since the blaze, ...

Hamed Pirsiavash, a postdoctoral scholar from MIT, is developing a new activity-recognition algorithm to identify what's happening in video files. ...

The use of socially generated "big data" from our daily activities has become a new technique to understand and predict ...

When we devote so much time and energy talking about Big Data, are we neglecting the important things that you ...

Netflix started with home delivery of DVDs in the late 90s, and moved to video-on-demand Internet streaming in 2007. The ...

A common concern with big data is privacy - where do we draw the boundary between public information that can ...

Birst, the business intelligence and cloud analytics platform provider, announced yesterday that it would be offering a free analytics tool ...

Celmatix, a US-based startup, are beginning clinical trials for their Big Data technology in the field of fertility treatment. Their ...

Over the past two months, SAS have been staking their claim for in-memory analytics for Hadoop. They have been providing ...

The 2014 parliamentary elections in India witnessed two trends this year: a huge increase in new voters and massive advances ...

In 2012, Americans watched more legally-delivered video content via the Internet than on physical formats such as DVDs. This shift ...

In a recent study by IDC, Brazil and Mexico are said to be the biggest markets for sales of big ...

Google suffered a disruptive defeat yesterday, when Europe's top court ruled search engines should erase links to 'outdated' or 'irrelevant' ...

Last week, we featured Twitter's engagement and credibility problems and how, if untreated, may spell the platform's demise. This week ...

The term “big data” has been prevalent over the past few years. Yet, according to Donald Feinberg, VP of Gartner’s ...

  Alchemy API is branching out from its usual realm of natural-language processing and into the world of computer vision. ...

Last week, in conjunction with Big Data Week, we featured the best articles that speak to the power of big ...

IBM has announced a new portfolio of software-defined storage technology, which intelligently decreases the cost of IT infrastructure and offers ...

SalesPredict, a SaaS technology provider that helps B2B companies by using predictive analytics, announced on Monday that it has received $4.1 million ...

The future of crime fighting is moving away from reacting to incidents as they occur and towards 'predicting' crime in ...

Splice Machine, a company that provides a Hadoop relational database management system (RDBMS), announced yesterday that it would be moving ...

Join 1000+ of the industry's top minds at the world's largest executive led Big Data Summit and share challenges and ...

The Healthcare industry is at a turning point. Huge amounts of analytical talent is flowing into healthcare and by 2016 ...

Why did you change your mind? Imagine being able to answer that question. Understanding PEOPLE (i.e. not shoppers, not consumers, ...

Data is the most important tool that your organization has in order to maintain relevance and growth in today’s complex ...

The Business Intelligence Innovation Summit brings together thought- leaders from the industry for an event acclaimed for its interactive sessions and ...

The Business Analytics Summit brings together thought-leaders from the industry for an event acclaimed for its interactive sessions and high-level ...

The Big Data Innovation Summit brings together thought-leaders from the industry for an event acclaimed for its interactive sessions and ...

Whether you're a startup, work for the government or are within business and academia, The Open Innovation Summit: Data Transparency ...

ASE's International BigData Conferences are the premier international forum for research on Big Data. They aim to bring together academic ...

The 2014 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery (ICKD 2014) will be held during June 7-8, 2014, Pattaya, Thailand, organized ...

The Useful Business Analytics Summit is a platform for corporate peers to meet and determine how analytics can improve business ...

The Big Data & Analytics for Pharma Summit brings together thought-leaders from the industry for an event acclaimed for its interactive sessions ...

The role of data in manufacturing has traditionally been understated. Manufacturing generates about a third of all data today, and ...

The 2014 Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS 2014) will have four days of presentations by experts ...

According to a Gartner study, the Indian IT infrastructure market will reach a total of $1.9 billion in 2014, a ...

Alibaba Group announced today that its first cloud computing unit in Hong Kong will launch on May 12. Following their ...

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Facebook's DeepFace technology is able to recognize faces 97.25% of the time, against 97.53% for a human. Such developments raise ...