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23 May, 2013
Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers
Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers’ locations, travels and Web-browsing habits. The information…
Publication: WSJ.com
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22 May, 2013
Google Analytics Lets Analytics Premium Users Join Big Data In Google Cloud
Last week, Google Analytics introduced a new feature that’s quite a big deal to Premium Analytics users. Google is now giving Analytics Premium users…
Publication: Search Engine Watch
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24 May, 2013
IBM’s Watson Gets A Job In Customer Service
IBM’s Watson supercomputer has been riding high for the past couple of years. It won a game of Jeopardy, went to university and did a stint at a cancer lab. But now it’s taking what might seem like a step down with a job in customer service.
The…
Publication: Gizmag
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24 May, 2013
IBM Helps Xiu.com Analyze Big Data To Grow Daily Sales 10 Times
IBM today announced that Xiu.com, one of China’s leading online retailers of overseas luxury brands, grew its daily sales by 10 times using IBM software for Smarter Commerce to analyze Big Data, offering customers a personalized shopping experience and increased product selection…
Publication: IBM Newsroom
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24 May, 2013
SAP Cloud Chief Lars Dalgaard Steps Down
Dalgaard is off to become an investor, although he will remain a cloud advisor to SAP. Meanwhile, the company is consolidating its cloud development processes, with a view to eventually streamlining its portfolio…
Publication: GigaOM
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23 May, 2013
SaaS, Cloud And Mobile To Reshape Software Market
SaaS now accounts for at least 40% of the software revenue for 10 major companies listed Global 100.
Software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud, IT consumerisation and mobile are expected to impact the software industry in the coming days, according to a report by PwC…
Publication: CBR
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23 May, 2013
Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers
Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers’ locations, travels and Web-browsing habits. The information provides a powerful tool for marketers but raises new privacy concerns…
Publication: WSJ.com
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23 May, 2013
Big Data Gets A Boost From Splunk And Hortonworks Strategic Alliance
Splunk Inc., the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop, today announced a strategic alliance to enable organizations to gain operational intelligence using open source Apache Hadoop…
Publication: Splunk
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23 May, 2013
Enterprise Data App Management Startup WibiData Raises $15M
WibiData, the enterprise data management startup co-founded by Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and Aaron Kimball, has raised $15 million in a Series B funding led by Canaan Partners with participation from existing investors, including NEA and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt…
Publication: TechCrunch
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22 May, 2013
Google Analytics Lets Analytics Premium Users Join Big Data In Google Cloud
Last week, Google Analytics introduced a new feature that’s quite a big deal to Premium Analytics users. Google is now giving Analytics Premium users the ability to use Google BigQuery to crunch their analytics data and other offline data sets…
Publication: Search Engine Watch
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22 May, 2013
SAS Data Visualization Implemented At Australian Institute Of Health And Welfare
CARY, NC (May 22, 2013) – The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has implemented SAS Visual analytics to inform policy decisions on health, welfare and community services.
AIHW recently became accredited as a data integrating authority by the Australian government, along with the Australian Bureau of Statistics, another SAS…
Publication: SAS
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22 May, 2013
Blue Coat Buys Intel-Backed Solera Networks To Beef Up In Big Data, Encrypted Data Security
Web security provider Blue Coat Systems — itself acquired in a $1.3 billion deal by Thoma Bravo at the end of December 2011 — is making an acquisition today: it’s buying Solera Networks, a specialist in big data security, for an undisclosed sum…













