Bitkom held its second Big Data summit 2014 in Hanau, Germany. The German Federal Association for IT, Telecommunications and New Media had invited ...

Smart Data Competition Background: The German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy launched a smart data competition, aimed at supporting ...

This article is based on an excerpt of  Learning with Big Data: The Future of Education by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier. ...

German Chefrunde Studytour USA 2014 visits founders of Dataconomy, Hitfox Group and Applift to discuss learnings from being in Silicon ...

A sequence produced by data visualization experts 422 South. Sequence was produced for NATS - the UK based global air traffic ...

MammothDB is a specialized analytics database (not for transactional uses) – much like Teradata or Vertica – but offered at ...

MammothDB is a specialized analytics database (not for transactional uses) – much like Teradata or Vertica – but offered at ...

LeanCiti nominated After having been nominated for the CODE_n award at this year's CeBIT, LeanCiti is now nominated for two further awards. ...

LeanCiti nominated After having been nominated for the CODE_n award at this year's CeBIT, LeanCiti is now nominated for two ...

Pic :  A view of the CERN computing server where all the data is backed upThe Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is ...

Loyalty Cards status quo In the world of business transactions, consumers and merchants alike are continuously and relentlessly inundated, the ...

We met up with Olav Strand, Regional Director of splunk at the Volkswagen stand in CeBIT. Olav gave us a brief ...

Data Ownership In The Cloud With increasing performance and range of offering, more and more enterprises are opting to take ...

SQL vs NoSQL Since both languages have equal number of proponents when deciding which language to use, Network World invited ...

As was revealed at this year's CEBIT conference, BMW uses IBM technology in order to  get that extra edge over ...

Matthias Hagen of the Bauhaus Universität Weimar is now the first full big data professor in Germany. Prof. Hagen is ...

In his speech regarding the opening of the CEBIT 2014 yesterday, David Cameron announced that the UK government is going ...

Jut secured funding of $20 million back in November, even before it is launched. Through its Series B round led ...

As SXSW started on Thursday, Inc. sat down with Michael Dell and he shared a little big data secret: "How much ...

Big Data is like crude oil, suggests Andreas Weigend in an interview with Business Week. He compares it to oil ...

“Big Data” has been a major technology trend over the past years, and buzz around the term continuing strong today. ...

A recent study by KPMG revealed that executives do see the value in data and analytics, but 85% face challenges ...

Deutsche Bank Research released a research report yesterday. The DB Research Big Data report provides an in-depth, well-researched and up-to-date ...

Paxata was launched in October of 2013, after 18 months of preparation, to roll up the world of data cleaning. ...

Preventive Medicine, a medical journal, has published an article suggesting that tweets indicating certain risky actions are very good proxies for ...

BAE Systems, the large British defence conglomerate, will start to sell its TeraStar big data platform in the private sector. ...

1. Splunk : Started in 2003 by co-founders Michael Baum, Rob Das and Erik Swan, Splunk went public in 2012 with a valuation ...

Jake Flomenberg, Venture Capitalist at Accel Partners has over a decade of experience building innovative software products. Jake focuses on early stage ...

2014 Oscars Winners Farsite, a company in the business of advanced analytics, has applied its brain and computing power to ...

Using Big Data, Ford builds better cars. Car sensors, interactions within the company and the customers themselves are all generating ...

Datalogix collects consumer data both online through tracking and offline, e.g. through obtaining data on customer loyalty card programs. Datalogix then ...

Acxiom is a stock exchange-listed company offering marketing and information management services to its clients. By sifting through mounds of ...

A recent study by SAS on Adoption and Employments trends of Big Data Analytics found that Small and medium-sized (SMEs) ...

To follow-up on the 3 reasons why companies fail at big data, Harvard Business Review recently published an article on ...

The head of Morgan Stanley's US equity team, Adam Parker, recommends including a higher share of technology shares in your ...

Using data from interviews with over 178 000 Americans, North Dakota wins the prize as America's happiest state. Scores evaluating ...

Ingo Mierswa CEO of Rapidminer has stated that "Whatsapp was a good deal for facebook". Ingo points out that with over ...

DataIQ has released the list of their top 50 influencers and important people in the Big Data field for 2014. Topping ...

As more and more companies jump on the Big Data bandwagon, Wells Fargo joins the ranks by hiring a new ...

Stratosphere - the Berlin based next generation Big Data Analytics Platform gets accepted for Google Summer of Code  2014. Google Summer of Code is a global program  that ...

Robert Metzger is studying towards a master’s degree in computer science at the TU Berlin.  He is a member of ...

Infogram concluded a first round of venture capital funding. Point Nine Capital, together with Connect Ventures and HackFWD invested €1.3M ...

infogr.am infogr.am is a Riga-based company founded by Uldis Leiterts and Raimonds Kaze in February of 2012. The company offers ...

As one of our first posts in the new years we want to recap the year that passed by sharing ...

Supermarket Giant Tesco pioneers Big Data: Turning Customer Loyalty into Royalties                    ...

Introducing Hadoop In the Big data world the sheer volume, velocity and variety of data renders most ordinary technologies ineffective. ...

Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV Ventures) was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Menlo Park. Within their Tech focus MDV is ...

IA Ventures is a VC focused on startups wanting to enter the field of Big Data. Founded in 2008 by ...

Big data is overwhelmingly powerful, overwhelmingly omnipresent, and most of all, overwhelming to grasp. As such, three factors, three big ...

Below we present a list of top 10 Big Data Twitter influencers : 1.Hilary Mason : Data Scientist in Residence ...