A researcher has analyzed the past 35 years of world history in order to find periods most similar to present-day Ukraine and Arab-Spring-era Egypt. It’s a great example of the power… Read more »
If I’m paying $200 to see the Red Sox play (don’t laugh), do I really want to be spammed with offers on my iPhone? Maybe yes, maybe no. This the sort… Read more »
Yahoo has been rebuilding its research focus, and now a 250-person strong Yahoo Labs is trying to build the future of content. Full of experts in everything from personalization to deep… Read more »
Join Gigaom for a free meetup on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Speakers from Google, Microsoft Research, Baidu and more will discuss the state of the art in fields such as… Read more »
Last year, General Electric invested $105 million in Pivotal; Now it’s starting to deploy Pivotal’s big data analytics capabilities both in house and to buyers of its jet engines. Read more »
Google has published a paper about its latest big data system, a globally distributed data warehouse called Mesa that can ingest millions of rows in minutes and even survive a data… Read more »
The startup founded by Google and Yahoo engineers uses Apache Spark to power an easy to understand user interface that resembles Google Docs. Read more »
The database-as-a-platform startup wants to help companies that may not know a lot about databases choose the right one (or more) that fits for them. In order for it to do… Read more »
Splice Machine, a San Francisco-based startup promising to turn HBase into a relational database that can even handle transactional workloads, has added $3 million to its series B round of venture… Read more »