With 70,000 machines available in the cloud and on volunteer computers around the globe, Datafiniti claims that its customers are scanning 648 million URLs each month. Read more »
Slower and less-hyped growth occurred in the cloud computing marketplace in the third quarter, including noticeably less news coming from cloud computing providers. Read more »
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin’s new startup Glow is the latest to bring big data to couples struggling to conceive. But it also effectively offers those couples an insurance policy on getting… Read more »
Companies are rushing to embrace the promise of big data to understand both their businesses and the ways in which customers interact with them. But effective data-based decisions are not made… Read more »
Is the world of big data one in which information about us allows us to personalize services and benefit from that personalization, or is it one in which our data is… Read more »
Max Levchin, who in his past life started PayPal and Slide is back at it again. He has started a new hybrid R& D Lab/Incubator (HVF) and his focusing on opportunities… Read more »
I spent two days last week watching experts on big data and data science discuss how their companies are building businesses around data, or at least rethinking how they do business… Read more »
Lose your love handles, call your mom more often, get that promotion: If you’re like many of us, you’re already thinking over some New Year’s resolutions that will make you a… Read more »
The FinTech Innovation Lab, an accelerator program for financial tech startups, graduated its first class on Friday. This first batch of companies is bringing some impressive ideas to bear on data,… Read more »