Twitter embraces its data and buys Gnip
Twitter is buying Gnip, the data startup that has full access to the Twitter firehose. Twitter now has what it needs to deliver meaningful data to companies that want to examine… Read more »
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Twitter is buying Gnip, the data startup that has full access to the Twitter firehose. Twitter now has what it needs to deliver meaningful data to companies that want to examine… Read more »
Twitter has released some details on its Manhattan database system, which was built to power a wide variety of applications that existing technologies can no longer handle. Twitter handles thousands of… Read more »
The name pretty much says it all: WebScaleSQL. That’s the new open source project Facebook announced on Thursday, which includes early contributions from other web giants that have pushed MySQL to… Read more »
Apache Mesos is the open source cluster-management software that automates operations at companies such as Twitter and Airbnb. Now, a startup called Mesosphere is building a business around taking it mainstream. Read more »
Twitter is offering up access to its entire corpus of tweets to a select group of researchers through a new data grant program. But the program raises a simmering question over… Read more »
Twitter is fast becoming a platform that’s far more valuable for marketers, politicians, traders and journalists than for any given individual user. That’s because if you know how to use it,… Read more »
A group of Stanford machine learning students has created a new service for analyzing and classifying passages of text. But the highlight is an easy-to-use feature for classifying whether tweets are… Read more »
Following on the heels of Apple buying Topsy, fellow Twitter-specialist DataSift has announced a $42 million round of venture capital financing. Read more »
The tech world is wondering how Apple plans to utilize the assets it acquired by buying Topsy, which focuses on collecting and analyzing Twitter data. I suspect Apple is trying to… Read more »
This survey from State Street and the Economist Intelligence Unit is a pretty good look at the opportunities and challenges of using data in the financial services industry. Many respondents noted… Read more »