O’Reilly’s Radar has just published a really fascinating interview with Marie Wallace, a social analytics strategist from IBM. She believes that social networks in search of a monetization strategy should turn themselves into data analytics businesses...
There’s one sure fire way of telling that a technology has crossed the floor from being an intriguing idea to a future giant of IT – and that’s earning a place on Gartner’s Hype Cycle. This happened with Big Data last year, as Gartner added it to its...
Yesterday the UK government announced that it might force supermarkets and internet companies to release the personal data they hold on individual customers, in a shake-up of Britain’s data protection laws. The move is part of a new initiative called Midata...
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...
