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42, An Online Platform Bringing Big Data To Brick-And-Mortar …

Y Combinator-backed online retailer platform and former TechCrunch Disrupt participant, 42, is today making its official debut. The company, founded only a year ago, is working to turn raw point-of-sale data into actionable insights for brick-and-mortar businesses that can help them boost their sales.This includes details about a store’s best customers or which products are top sellers, among other things.The […]

Weekly Big Data review: Hadoop distros, cloud analytics and …

This week’s O’Reilly Strata Conference saw the usual slew of Big Data announcements from around the industry, but a handful of vendors managed to stand out from the crowd despite the overwhelming buzz. The first is Hadoop distributor MapR, which unleashed a string of new and updated products on day 1 of the Santa Clara event.The most notable addition to […]

Legacy outfit Syncsort at forefront of big data revolution …

A hopeful sign for large-scale adoption of Big Data technologies, this year’s #strataconf has attracted a number of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and executives, as well as the expected cadre of developers, interested in the new technologies that will facilitate Enterprise’s embrace of Big Data strategies.Joining Dave Vellante and John Furrier on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE was Josh Rogers, President of Syncsort. Syncsort, […]

Join us for our biggest Big Data event yet : #BigDataSV …

Following the success of #BigDataNYC, Wikibon and SiliconANGLE will be bringing its next independent Big Data broadcast to Silicon Valley.#BigDataSV will take place on February 11-13, 2014 at the Hilton Santa Clara, a few steps away from where the Strata Conference will be held. View the live broadcast in its entirety here on SiliconANGLE or on SiliconANGLE.tv. Subscribe to our […]

TD analyst argues investors should favour Telus stock over Rogers …

The Canadian telecommunications industry has been relatively quiet of late as the federal government is either still conducting an auction of cellular airwaves or preparing to reveal the results.Opening telecom market to foreign investment could make Canada a ‘branch plant,’ Edward Rogers warns“The model we have right now, I believe, allows Canadians to have the best wireless industry, the best […]

Market Prophit Introduces Social Media Ranking of Financial Bloggers

NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Market Prophit an industry-leading provider of real-time stock market sentiment analysis of social media conversations, has announced the launch of one of the industry’s first tools for ranking the performance and accuracy of stock market pundits and financial bloggers within social media.  The solution delivers quantitative rankings of financial bloggers’ stock calls, rating predictiveness, […]

Market Prophit Introduces Social Media Ranking of Financial …

Market Prophit Introduces Social Media Ranking of Financial Bloggers
by Admin on Jan 14, 2014 • 12:40 pmNo CommentsMarket Prophit unveils first quantitative rankings of stock market opinion makersNEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Market Prophit an industry-leading provider of […]

Zephyr Health Lands $15M From Kleiner To Help Life Sciences …

The Big Data landscape continued to explode in 2013, as companies across the board scrambled to update infrastructure and technology to meet the new set of demands and opportunities brought on by a brave new, data-happy world. Investors responded in kind, pouring just over $3.6 billion into the Big Data ecosystem during the year, setting off a flurry of activity […]

What's driving big data and predictive analytics in 2014? | News …

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