Data, driverless cars and the future of the insurance business
The driverless car may one day change the insurance industry said Progressive’s CEO, but in the meantime he explains how data is changing it today. Read more »
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MoreThe driverless car may one day change the insurance industry said Progressive’s CEO, but in the meantime he explains how data is changing it today. Read more »
The French consumer rights group UFC-Que Chosir has sued Facebook(s fb), Google(s goog) and Twitter(s twtr) in the Paris high court over their terms of service and data collection practices. In… Read more »
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has closed a fourth round of venture capital worth $100 million. It follows up on news last week that competitor Cloudera had closed its own $160 million round… Read more »
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Dell has bought a statistical analysis vendor called StatSoft that makes software akin to that of SAS and IBM’s SPSS business. It seems like an uninspired buy for a company trying… Read more »
Amazon Web Services-based FinQloud, which stores and manages financial data, may be going back to the drawing board. Read more »
The New York Public Library will offer book recommendations to readers through its website via a new partnership with NYC-based startup Zola Books. Read more »
The latest Snowden leaks show the U.S. to be hacking China, which is hacking the U.S. Huawei is caught somewhere in the middle, along with various other companies. Read more »
The company wants to build a system that sees and learns like the human brain. That could be decades out, but Silicon Valley is very interested. Read more »
Are companies ready to junk billions of dollars worth of older IT to embrace newbie big data platforms. Some vendors sure hope so. Read more »