Big Data

(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday it would buy Looker, a big data analytics company, for $2.6 billion in cash. The deal builds on an existing partnership where the two companies share more than 350 customers, including Buzzfeed, Hearst and …

Hypergiant, a Texas-based startup that launched a year ago and aims to use big data to dominate the new space race, announced today that it raised funds from Sumitomo Corporation of Americas and Perot Jain, the venture capital arm of Perot Industries. In a re…

With a potential base salary of around $110,000, a consistently impressive job satisfaction ranking, and thousands of active job openings, it's no wonder Data Scientist has topped Glassdoor's annual list of the Best Jobs in America for four years running.  D…

Huawei Chairman Liang Hua speaks during the Big Data and Smart Technology Summit of the Smart China Expo in Chongqing, China, in 2018. On Tuesday, Liang said Huawei is willing to sign a "no-spy agreement" to reassure U.S. leaders who worry the company's techn…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin J.D. Power Chief Digital Officer Bernardo Rodriguez plans to use big data to change the car business. J.D. Power These days there is a great deal of talk about big data. According to J.D. Power Chief D…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The percentage of companies that report being data-driven is shrinking. According to a recent survey, 31% of firms surveyed say they are data-driven. Thats down from 32.4% in 2018 and 37.1% in 2…

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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Human law enforcement already includes canine intelligence, so big data has to come next. Wikipedia Law enforcement officers, detectives, private investigators and military intelligence staff have used…

Billions of years before humans developed hard drives, evolution chose DNA to store its most precious information: the genetic code. Over time DNA became so proficient at this task that every known life-form on earth uses it. With recent technological breakth…

As anonymized phone records of millions of people in low-income countries are used in big data projects for saving lives, critics worry about potential misuse (Amy Maxmen/Nature)