In the era of big data, the battle for privacy has already been fought and lost – personal data is routinely collected and traded in the new economy and there are few effective controls over how it is used or secured. Data researchers and analysts now say that it’s time for legislation to reclaim some of that privacy and […]
The head of the SEC, Mary Jo White, has announced a broad set of new initiatives and proposed regulations that are aimed at giving the agency a tighter grip on the high-frequency trading (HFT) firms which have come to dominate daily activity on the stock market. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, if the new rules are passed, HFT […]
February 20, 2014Program aims to leapfrog state-of-the-art big data analytics by developing automated technologies to help explain the causes and effects that drive complicated systems During the 1854 cholera epidemic in London, Dr. John Snow plotted cholera deaths on a map, and in the corner of a particularly hard-hit quadrangle of buildings was a water pump. Snow’s maps, a 19th-century version […]
WANdisco CEO David Richards and Jagane Sundar, CTO and VP of Engineering of Big Data, discussed the company’s latest developments and the current Big Data trends with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at BigDataSV 2014.WANdisco has just released a new Non-Stop Hadoop product, a single cluster running HBase that can be deployed across multiple data centers spread […]
President Obama has named the people who will help John Podesta accomplish this task.I have also asked my Counselor, John Podesta, to lead a comprehensive review of big data and privacy. This group will consist of government officials who—along with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology—will reach out to privacy experts, technologists and business leaders, and look […]
LONDON, January 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ –Sentiment, (the trading name of Macranet Ltd), the social intelligence and engagement platform, announced today it has secured £1 million in a Series A financing led by Elderstreet Investments, with participation from AIM listed technology company Netcall plc. The funding will accelerate the company’s growth strategy.Sentiment will use the financing to increase investment in its […]
The holiday-shortened trading session on Tuesday saw the Dow and S&P 500 extending their record runs propelled by encouraging economic numbers. Higher orders for manufactured goods, encouraging new home sales and a report which revealed that corporates were investing at a rapid pace in their businesses acted as gifts on Christmas Eve. Volumes were among the lowest for the year […]
