Today we are worshipping the gods of the algorithm, according to one prominent magazine. It’s not a bad comparison. Everything from search results to our machine learning efforts are the basis… Read more »
Skype used Luxembourgish and Irish subsidiaries to avoid paying corporation tax for five years, according to a Guardian report. The newspaper, which analyzed confidential documents obtained by the International Consortium of… Read more »
Uber’s latest funding brings the company into the stratosphere of private company valuations. At $40 billion, Uber is believed to be four times more valuable than Airbnb, Snapchat, Palantir or Dropbox. Its… Read more »
In recent months, there’s been a spate of tech companies publishing their staff demographics. We’ve taken the liberty of turning all of them into pie charts — for gender — and… Read more »
The mobile payment sector is evolving quickly and chaotically, with incumbents and startups competing for not only market share but also the ability to establish the business’ rules and technological standards. Read more »
Hadoop can be an efficient and cost-effective tool for offloading some of the data processing currently done inside the enterprise data warehouse. Read more »
Increasingly, machine learning is the critical process making sense of big data for consumers. From music to cooking and office apps, machine learning is providing a twist on expert systems for… Read more »