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Hadoop is not enough for big data, says Facebook analytics chief

The Hadoop programming framework may be synonymous with the “big data” movement but it’s not the only tool companies need to derive insights from massive stores of unstructured information, according to Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin. Tweet This Post

The SHUTDOWN effect on tech — BITTORRENT building server-free message client — All FACEBOOK posts now searchable — SPACEX explosion — MCAFEE hallucinates secure network

October 1, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

FACEBOOK buys Israeli mobile player — MICROSOFT’s Windows Phone update — NETFLIX on the cable clicker? — Senior TWITTER dev earns, um, $10M

October 14, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

New iPAD & OSX Mavericks debut Oct. 22 — BALLMER loading Office on iPad (eventually) — Raspberry Pi rising — DORSEY work for FACEBOOK?

October 9, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Senior Facebook, Netflix Scientist Joins Identified To Help It Fix Professional Search, Take On LinkedIn

This summer, Identified pulled back the curtain on a new artificial intelligence technology, called “SYMAN,” which it developed to help organize and clean the swaths of unstructured professional data that today lives on the Web. In doing so, the startup moved away from its original focus — a kind of Facebook data-driven “Klout score for […]

Sinofsky joins BOX to take down Office — Microsoft courting FOURSQUARE — FACEBOOK user pix for facial recognition — PC nosedive accelerates

August 30, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

ICAHN LONG with big APPLE position — MSFT shareholder REVOLT over Surface RT ‘DISASTER’ — 40% of Americans FACEBOOK daily — gagged LAVABIT founder speaks — WILSON fears DROID could ‘run the table’ — OM MALIK, new American

**Sponsored by Citrix** August 14, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post

Tipbit Email App Surfaces Related Information From Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Dropbox And Calendars

Tipbit is a smart mobile email inbox launching in the next few weeks that surfaces social networks, calendars and documents related to the topic or person who is the subject of the correspondence. In a phone call yesterday, CEO Gordon Mangione said the service is designed to integrate with calendars and email clients. With permissions, […]

Study: LinkedIn Positioned To Become First Global Economic Graph, Business Platform On Par With Google And Facebook

LinkedIn is positioned to become the first global economic graph with the ability to mine the transactions of an emerging data economy. That’s the conclusion of a study by faberNovel, a Paris-based consulting group that has published the results of its work with a detailed 127-slide report titled: LinkedIn, The Serious Network. FaberNovel has a […]

Backupify Is Phasing Out Free Consumer Products; Drops Support For Facebook Personal Profiles, Blogger, Picassa And Flickr

Earlier this week we reported on how Backupify was closing down TweetBackup, a free service to back up your Twitter account that it acquired in 2010; now we have confirmed that, as we’d heard, this is part of a bigger plan at the company to phase out consumer services altogether, as Backupify focuses its efforts […]