Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company. There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to […]
Posted on June 30th, 2014 by admin
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In 2012, about 7 percent of all people aged 16 or older in the U.S. experienced identity theft, with their financial losses totaling $24.7 billion. Christopher Morton is familiar with the crime because in 2007, he had his identity stolen. Fortunately, the thieves were prevented from obtaining new credit cards, but Morton became interested in […]
Posted on June 28th, 2014 by admin
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Have you ever tried to read a website’s privacy policy only to give up after slogging through paragraphs and paragraphs of dense, lawyerly language? Privacy-focused companies Disconnect and TRUSTe have released a new browser add-on that attempts to translate those policies into easy-to-understand terms. Tweet This Post
Posted on June 28th, 2014 by admin
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Companies face an inherent tension between being open or proprietary, but we’ve seen, again and again, that open systems can act as catalysts for entirely new businesses built on top of a popular platform. Earlier this month, we encountered examples of each approach, as Tesla Motors opened up its patents and Netflix decided to shut […]
Posted on June 27th, 2014 by admin
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Last month, I wrote an article called Actually, Every Company Is A Big Data Company in which I postulated that simply by the act of collecting data as an artifact of doing business, every company is in the Big Data business. Zendesk is putting this idea into practice, releasing a new feature today called Zendesk Insights that purports […]
Posted on June 27th, 2014 by admin
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Taking what many see as the next step in big data analysis, Google is previewing a service called Google Cloud Dataflow that analyzes live data, potentially giving users the ability to view trends and be alerted to events as they happen. “There’s an enormous amount of data being created, and so you need a way […]
Posted on June 27th, 2014 by admin
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In May, Buffer — the app that competes against the likes of SocialFlow and HootSuite as a way for individuals and businesses to schedule and share things on social networks — added a new content suggestion feature to its service, so that when users didn’t have something of their own to spread around, they could get […]
Posted on June 26th, 2014 by admin
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For the Internet of Things, collecting data is only half the battle, and public transit agencies know that as well as anyone. Operators of bus, train, and trolley systems collect a wide range of data from ticket machines, fare validation devices, GPSes (Global Positioning Systems), and other sources, but typically that data stays in silos, […]
Posted on June 26th, 2014 by admin
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The phrase “Facebook at work” usually suggests people frittering away the day on the social network and not actually doing their jobs. But according to an anonymous source inside Facebook, the company is working on a way to put the social network into a more positive light in the office. It is building an at-work version of Facebook. […]
Posted on June 25th, 2014 by admin
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As executives at CBS Interactive, Fouad ElNaggar, Peter Yared, and Charles Christolini were all too familiar with one of the biggest IT problems that big companies face: millions of dollars get invested into software for companies to work better, but getting people in the company to engage with that software regularly was nigh on impossible. Yared calls this “the […]
Posted on June 25th, 2014 by admin
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