Masdar Institute of Science and Technology’s project for the Telecom Italia Big Data and Trentino Open Data Challenge 2014 has been listed as one of the ten finalists.   Their submission, entitled “Misery Loves Company: Twitter Sentiment Reveals Assortative Mixing of Aggregate Happiness in Urban Communication Networks”, focused on looking at the

Teradata will be launching a technology called QueryGrid in the third quarter. The new product allows customers to run a single SQL-based query across a range of data stores, from Teradata’s own data warehouses to Hadoop and rival databases. The company will be making product announcements at the Teradata conference

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 offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. In the past Google  has worked with the open source community to identify and fund exciting projects in this field.