Earlier this week, Google gave us a fascinating insight into how the search giant sees its future when it announced it would be buying the US travel guide publisher, Frommer’s, from Wiley. The price tag on the deal is tiny by tech standards at only $25m (compare...
Pew Research Center has just released a new research study – Younger Americans’ Reading and Library Habits. It provides a fascinating look at the behaviours of young adults and their attitudes towards reading and libraries. On the face of it, this research may...
For more than a decade, the big players in Business Intelligence have leaned heavily on their software’s ability to provide analysts with accurate data about a business’s performance. But despite all their data crunching techniques and raw processing...
Last week the publishing industry was rocked by news of the class action lawsuit that three authors are filing against Harlequin for digital royalty depravation. But this is not the first time that digital royalties have come into the limelight in this way, and it...
The thinktank Policy Exchange has waded into the Big Data debate with a headline grabbing report claiming that greater use of big data analytics could save the UK government £33bn. Its report, which was launched at Computing magazine’s Big Data Summit, makes the...
According to a report published this week by the software giant SAP, while just 25 percent of SME executives agreed on a definition for Big Data, they still expect it to have a massive impact on their businesses. No less than 70 per-cent of the US based businesses...
The “IT glitch” which downed the systems of Royal Bank Of Scotland, Natwest and Ulster Bank at the end of last week is drawing to a close, but the blame game is just beginning. On Monday morning, BBC Business Editor, Robert Peston, claimed during an appearance on...
Beyond the much publicised e-book royalty payment war lies a much bigger problem. Much has been made of piracy, pricing, merchandising and the never ending power struggle between publishers and the likes of Amazon and Apple. But at the heart of the great e-book debate...
In a report published earlier this week, business consultancy Cap Gemini commissioned The Economist’s Intelligence Unit to find out what the leaders of 600 companies worldwide really thought about big data. You can see an overview of the data on Cap...
Anyone surfing popular websites in the UK such as bbc.co.uk will have noticed that a new notice has a tendency to appear near the top of the site warning visitors that it uses cookies. A cookie is a web term for a tiny piece of data that is sent from a website and...
