Keep Big Data Simple To Get Smarter: SMG's Parker | Beet.TV
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Robert Andrews on 06/02/2014 9:58 AM LONDON — Marketing agencies, like other industries, are getting excited about “Big Data” – but […]
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City of Big Data promotes data benefits, ignores privacy concerns
Chicago: City of Big Data is an exhibition being presented by the Chicago Architecture Foundation from now until the end of the year. The title City of Big Data is a play on the moniker bestowed on Chicago by Carl Sandburg, “City of Big Shoulders.” The exhibition focuses on how the City of Chicago uses massive collections of digital information […]
OLSET Raises $1.1 Million To Personalize Your Business Travel …
OLSET wants to make travel better for the business workers tasked with planning their own trips through online travel sites. And to do so, it’s just raised $1.1 million in seed funding.The company was founded to provide a platform that enables business travelers to search for accommodations, and match them up with the three most highly ranked hotels based on […]
IBM software defined storage reduces the cost of big data – BetaNews
Big data places enormous demands on storage and in many cases conventional technologies are struggling to keep up.In an effort to deliver improved economics and at the same time enable organizations to access and process any type of data, on any type of storage device, anywhere in the world, IBM has unveiled a portfolio of software defined storage products.Codenamed “Elastic […]
Tragedy Survey: A Sentiment Analysis «DIS Magazine
Amanda ToddAmanda Todd confesses her cyber bullying struggle on Youtube prior to her suicideIllia writes:I watched Amanda Todd’s video… so sad. I hadn’t heard about this story but I’m well aware about the bullying campaigns that are going on around now. It’s bittersweet that people are becoming more aware of these issues. Teens and Young Adults are easily subjected to […]
BlackRock Identifies The Beneficiaries Of The Dying Momentum Trade
Chris Hondros / Getty ImagesFA Insights is a daily newsletter from Business Insider that delivers the top news and commentary for financial advisors.Value Stocks May Be Coming Into Favor (BlackRock)The high-growth momentum stocks have recently taken a beating. Biotech stocks are down 15% from their February peak and the recent King Digital Entertainment IPO was a flop, with the stock […]
King.com IPO Does Not Crush It: Shares Open At $20.50, Down …
King Digital, publisher of the popular mobile game Candy Crush Saga, began trading as a public company today on the NYSE not with a pop but with a drop. The stock, trading as KING, commenced trading at only $20.50, down nearly 9% on the $22.50 per share it announced on Tuesday. By the close of trading, King.com’s stock was at $19 per share, down 15.56%, […]
Editors' Choice: The Red Herring of Big Data | Digital Humanities Now
….Although the Big Data Initiative only includes scientific agencies, it turns out that the humanities have been involved for just as long. In 2009, when Data.Gov was being launched, the first Digging into Data Challenge was held. Sponsored by the NEH and comparable organizations in the UK and Canada, the eight winning Digging into Data teams used high-performance computing stacks […]
Monstrous mobile SEO implications, thanks to Big Data …
I’m going to tell you something, and it isn’t going to be anything you haven’t already heard. Mobile is getting so big it’s likely going to increase the ‘Internet’ by more than double in the next few years. I’m only 30 and I can walk into a high school and see everyone with a laptop, smartphone out, snapchatting their Instagram […]
Still In Stealth, Origami Logic Raises $15M More To Help Marketers …
Origami Logic, a startup that has created a way for marketers to analyse, visualise and glean insights from the disparate and often impenetrable big data collected by their companies, is today announcing that it has picked up another $15 million in funding, led by Jafco Ventures with participation from existing investors Accel and Lightspeed. Origami Logic is still in stealth […]
