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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 […]

FB Stock – The Biggest Threats to Facebook Right Now – The Slant

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Facebook (FB) is everywhere, with nearly 1.3 billion users according to its last earnings report. That’s means by this math, 1 out of every 6 people in the world use Facebook!But here’s the thing: Just because the service is everywhere doesn’t mean that Facebook as a company or FB stock as an investment are destined to succeed.Plenty of products with wide reach struggle […]

SMToolbox: Bottlenose Social Analytics | Social Media Today

Social analytics has been in the news again with Twitter’s recent acquisition of Gnip. There appears to be a consensus that hidden within the mass of social data are insights that can provide companies with a competitive edge. However, drawing out these insights is not easy despite the range of social analytics tools that exist. This week in SMToolbox, I […]

Big Brother and the big data dividend – diginomica

Satya Nadella, MicrosoftMicrosoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella conjured up some evocative language to stir enthusiasm for big data and the Internet of Things at the launch of SQL Server 2014 in San Francisco this week:
“The core evolution of silicon, software and hardware is putting computing everywhere humans are present. And it’s generating a massive data exhaust of server logs, sensor […]

peHUB » Twitter buys social data provider Gnip, stock soars-Reuters

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it bought social data provider Gnip for an undisclosed amount, signaling that it would take on a new role of packaging and selling data, a service in demand by business and government.The social media company said separately that it hired a Google executive to lead its consumer product development, filling a position that […]

Microsoft's Big-Data Angle: Office as a Friendly Front-End | Re/code

Microsoft has big plans for big data and a new vision for its use that the company hopes will re-establish it as an innovator in a crucial business sector.At a Tuesday event in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and a handful of other executives gave an overview of the latest refinements to the company’s big-data strategy, ones Nadella says […]

All About Stock Trading Platforms | How To – Stop Agrexco

Stock Trading Platforms are useful for people who don’t want to travel to a broker, exchange or deal with people over the phone. Luckily, there is a plethora of online Stock Trading Platforms that I have used and can tell you a little about in the scope of this article. When looking for a good Stock Trading Platform, it is […]

Big Data Value for Europe – Digital Agenda for Europe – European …

The European Technology Platform for Software and Services NESSI, together with partners from the FP7 project Big, has drafted a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) on Big Data Value for Europe. The objective of the SRIA is to describe the main research challenges and needs for advancing Big Data Value in Europe in the next 5 to 10 years.

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Bottlenose Offers Real-Time Trend Intelligence For Social Media …

I had an interesting briefing a few weeks ago from Bottlenose, which sells what it calls a real-time “trend intelligence” system. The general idea is almost boringly straightforward: monitor events as they occur and pick out new and interesting information. But the technology to make this happen is mind-bogglingly complex, since it includes real-time ingestion of diverse […]

Q&A: CGI on UBI, Big Data and a platform-agnostic approach …

Jamie Rodgers, vice president, Insurance Information Services, CGI, on integrating real-time driving behavior data with policy and claims records, and what new products and services can come out of it.
With usage-based insurance (UBI) now making its presence felt in Canada, the big question is how to put to work all the data it generates. Insurance Information Services (IIS) is working […]