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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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10 May, 2013

Tableau 8 Incorporates Predictive Analytics

Tableau held the South African leg of its global Tableau 8 Tour in Johannesburg yesterday to mark the announcement of new features incorporated in Tableau Version 8, including new forecasting and predictive analytics capabilities.

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Publication: IT Web

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10 May, 2013

Twitter Acquires ‘Big Data’ And Large-scale Computing Startup Ubalo

Ubalo announced the acquisition on its website, saying that the company was founded to focus on making large-scale computing easier and that after fruitful collaborations with Twitter’s infrastructure team, the two agreed to come together.

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Publication: VentureBeat

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9 May, 2013

Obama Signs Open Data Policy Order

The U.S. government has reams of data locked away in agencies and even filing cabinets, but an executive order signed Thursday should make more of it accessible…

Publication: GigaOm

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9 May, 2013

Splunk, Cloudera Form Data Integration Alliance

Splunk, which has been on a partnership tear of late, forged a partnership with Cloudera so the two enterprise Hadoop players can easily swap data between platforms…

Publication: ZDNet

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9 May, 2013

SAP’s Cloud Moves Show Businesses Won’t Tolerate 18-Month Deployments Anymore

Enterprise software giant SAP has been throwing its hands in the air for years, exclaiming that it is indeed a cloud company. But yesterday, SAP took a big step that shows where the it and its customers are at by offering its “HANA” in-memory database technology from its own…

Publication: VentureBeat

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8 May, 2013

Swipely’s Big Data Machine Brings Customer Insights To Merchants On Main Street

Swipely’s selling point is helping merchants better understand their customers. Its cloud servers crunch the data left by card swipes, strip out personally identifying factors for security, and turn the data into nicely designed customer dashboards.

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Publication: Forbes

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7 May, 2013

Wipro Invests $30M For Minority Stake In Big Data Firm Opera Solutions

Software exporter WiproBSE said it is investing $ 30 million for a minority stake in New Jersey headquartered big data analytics firm, Opera Solutions…

Publication: Economic Times

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7 May, 2013

The Promise Of Better Data Has MetLife Investing $300M In New Tech

MetLife is building new products on new technologies thanks to a $300 million investment in new technology and new skills. One of the first products is a MongoDB-based app that puts all of customers’ information in one place…