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Customer Service Is Next Job for IBM's Watson
Remember Watson? The supercomputer that in an elaborate but interesting publicity stunt beat humanity at the game show “Jeopardy” a few years back, and then for a follow-up went on to become a big shot...
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Analytics Is Not a Strategy
I have been working in sports analytics for nearly 10 years, and still, virtually every time I tell someone what I do, they say some variation of “Oh, you do moneyball.” While my normal response is...
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Tumblr Porn, Tim Cook and the Problem With Big Data — 10 Things You Need to...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: As expected last week, Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. And according to WordPress CEO...
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GE CEO Jeff Immelt's Big Data Bet
The name General Electric today calls to mind locomotives, jet engines and electrical grids, so-called “big iron.” But a decade from now it will call to mind something very different: Big data. Onstage...
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What the NSA Wants to Know About You and Your Phone
So, now we know. We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the U.S. government is tracking phone calls made by American citizens within domestic borders and to parties outside the country. Strangely, it...
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Accel Launches Second $100 Million Big Data Fund
This whole big-data idea had better be real, because there’s a lot of money being invested in it. The latest is coming from Accel Partners, which will on Tuesday announce that it has raised its second...
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Ready for the Industrial Internet? GE Announces "Predictivity" Platform, New...
At the recent D: All Things Digital conference earlier this month, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt talked a lot about the savings that could be realized via a massive expansion of the so-called...
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Five Reasons to Throw Your Data Away
Image copyright Ververidis VasilisCommon wisdom when it comes to Big Data is that you should keep it all. The reality, however, is far different. Keeping all your data is more expensive — and carries...
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Election 2016: How Big Data + Social Data Will Determine the Next President
Image copyright AKIllustrationThe presidential election means big business for the ad industry, with a whopping $6 billion spent on 2012 election ads last year across all media according to the Center...
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Big Data Is the Only Way to Compete With Google
There is no denying Google’s unrelenting grip on Web search. It is, after all, the verb most commonly used to describe it. But Google’s impressive product and service suite is no longer confined to a...
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Think Big Data Is All Hype? You're Not Alone.
When a phrase enters the tech industry lexicon in a big way, and has a good way of crystallizing a seemingly overarching trend, it’s usually not long before the very same phrase becomes a victim of its...
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Birst Raises $38 Million in Series E Led by Sequoia Capital
Birst, the cloud-based business-intelligence firm that isn’t always in the cloud, announced today that it has raised $38 million in funding, in a Series E led by Sequoia Capital. The investment...
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Nearly a Decade Later, the Autocomplete Origin Story: Kevin Gibbs and Google...
If you head over to the search field on Google, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or any of the world’s other big websites and start writing, a little box will appear below. As you type each letter,...
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ATD Week in Review: Steve Ballmer's Legacy and the "Elegant" Golden iPhone
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.comIn case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will retire within the next 12 months;...
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Salesforce.com and Workday Team Up in the Cloud
Image copyright Maksym Darakchi Interesting news on the cloud-software front today. Salesforce.com and Workday said they will integrate their platforms in order to enable joint access to their...
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How to Escape the Dark Valley of Your Hadoop Journey
It happens to the best of us. You know your business is bursting with useful data, and you’ve only begun to scratch the surface. So you strike out to build an analytical platform, using all the great...
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How $10 Million Can Lose You $250 Million
Image copyright Ilin SergeyEvery company is seeing a rise in mobile traffic, but often can’t figure out why direct revenue from mobile isn’t increasing at a rate proportional to traffic. While mobile...
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Domo CEO Josh James Is Keeping Quiet About His Company. Deal With It.
After raising $125 million in venture capital funding in two rounds, at a valuation of more than $300 million, you’d think that CEO Josh James would want to start talking about how the company is...
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Big Data and the Soles of Your Shoes
Image copyright BONNINSTUDIOThere has been significant ink killed in the name of Big Data over the last few years. Much of that slaughter is justified; Big Data represents a massive generational shift...
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You Won't Believe What New Relic CEO Lew Cirne Did on His Summer Vacation
Whenever Lew Cirne goes on vacation, something cool tends to happen. That is, if you consider coding to be cool. Cirne is the CEO of New Relic, the white-hot cloud-based software company that monitors...
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Big Data App Engine Continuuity Names WebLogic Founder as Director
For all its vaunted importance to large companies, working with big data is kind of hard. Everybody sort of gets the point: Mine huge troves of data gathered over time through the course of normal...
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One day soon, frequent fliers should expect flight attendants to know their birthdays, how they like their coffee, and what they’re likely to buy on board. After years of dithering, airlines are...
View ArticleBig Data, Big Bucks: Palantir Valued at $9 Billion
Palantir Technologies, the “big data” miner that the counts the CIA and the FBI among its clients, is poised to announce a new round of funding that will value the company at roughly $9 billion,...
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Greylock Leads $12 Million Round for Big-Data Startup Trifacta
For all its hype as a potential panacea for companies everywhere, Big Data isn’t necessarily useful data. All the analysis in the world isn’t helpful if, in the end, you can’t figure out what your data...
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Siri Gets Serious, Microsoft Gets Its Mojo Back and Everything Gets Encrypted...
If it’s December, it’s time to start predicting what’s going to dominate the headlines and trends of 2014. I make it a point every year to sit down with Mark Anderson, an industry analyst and CEO of...
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