Amazon Web Services has won a major battle against IBM in the pursuit to build a cloud infrastructure for the intelligence community. In a ruling published today, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thomas Wheeler wrote that AWS legitimately won a $600 million contract with the CIA that IBM had contested. IBM plans to appeal […]
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Following mounting pressure from data protection agencies (DPAs) in different European countries, Google has started offering so-called data processing agreements to websites using its Google Analytics suite in the European Union, Iceland, Norway or Switzerland. Up to now Google did not provide such contracts because it maintains that it does not process personal data. Since […]
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According to a recent study by IDG Research Services, personalization is recognized as a key differentiator among online businesses, for both e-commerce and non-commerce sites. Companies with an online presence are learning that they need to take action to learn more about their customers in order to increase customer loyalty, gain new followers and outshine […]
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Since Silk first came out of stealth mode in 2011, there have been 300,000 interactive pages created on its cloud-based, web data-crunching platform designed for non-technical “knowledge workers.” Taking less easy-to-read data sets and making them more digestible, results have ranged from the Guardian newspaper in the UK creating graphics of which countries have the most […]
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Last week, Numerify, announced it had raised $8 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. They also received funding from a number of prominent angel investors, including Frank Slootman, CEO of ServiceNow, Amit Singh, president of Google Enterprise and Deep Nishar, SVP of Products and User Experience at Linkedin. The company, […]
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Earlier today, VPN service PureVPN was dealt a double blow by malicious hackers: a zero-day exploit; and the mailing of a subsequent, fake email alleging account closure and a data compromise. Uzair Gadit, the founder of the VPN tunneling service — which assigns new IP addresses to users’ connected devices, enabling them to access the Internet in firewalled countries […]
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When digital recruiting platform HireVue got its start nine years ago, the company actually shipped webcams to job candidates, allowing them to interview for long-distance jobs online. Though today, video interviewing startups are far more common, this was still something of a novel idea at the time. Founder and CEO Mark Newman recalls those early […]
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Let’s get it out of the way up front: You’re a fool if you don’t include Google Analytics in your toolkit as a way to track your website’s traffic. The advantages are almost too numerous to list. A de facto industry standard, its reports are often taken as gospel by advertisers. Tweet This Post
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With an increasing number of commercial applications relying on its technology, natural language processing (NLP) has started to come into its own of late. After years of research and experimentation, it has emerged from geeky obscurity and into the limelight — thanks to Watson, Siri and Nuance’s Dragon, among others. Of course, every time Siri […]
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