While most companies selling you the big data solution may tell you they've got it all figured, one of IBM's top data analytics researchers delivered a hefty dose of reality at the company's Information on Demand 2013 conference in Las ...
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Local media companies are well positioned to grow revenue as "big data" — the ability to collect, analyze and act on a wide range of data in traditional and new ways due to new technologies and the emergence of social media — ...
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Finn Apparel, a new clothing startup based in Birmingham, Alabama, believed that the fashion industry was missing a new twist on an old wardrobe staple and decided to make their mark by introducing the Finn Cuffed Chino. The company turned ...
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More than a decade ago, Hardee's and Carl's Jr. proved fast-food consumers can get a burger that rivals sit-down restaurant offerings with the introduction of their 100 percent Black Angus Beef Thickburgers? and Six Dollar Burgers. Now ...
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Apple have revealed the amount of user information that governments have requested from the California giant, as it?sought to set itself apart from Silicon Valley competitors whose businesses are built on amassing personal data. Apple ...
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Spear phishing is one of the most effective ways to break into a corporate network – and recent studies show that employees can be easily tricked on social media to provide the information needed to launch attacks. A phishing attack ...
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Asda is using social media to encourage consumer engagement and drive its latest product innovation, rather than as a direct sales tool because consumers don't like it being used to sell to them, according to the retailer's chief marketing ...
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Marks & Spencer's (M&S's) food business delivered a "commendable" performance for the 26 weeks to September 28, according to City analysts M&S's food business delivered 'a commendable performance', said City analyst Shore Capital Shore ...
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“Collecting more and more unstructured data will open up another whole degree of attractiveness and may well lead to attackers seeing value in a form not previously recognised by the organisation that owns the data.” So ...
The cyber-extortionists behind the Cryptolocker "ransomware", which encrypts users' files and refuses to decrypt them without payment, have extended their deadline for affect PC users. Cryptolocker uses 256-bit Advanced Encryption ...
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There was a time when just hanging an "open" sign on your store meant you would be successful. Thanks in part to the recession, as well as whole slew of things—from changing demographics to technological advances to increased ...
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IBM kicked off its IOD 2013 conference in Las Vegas today by launching several new big data analytics-based products. The company announced an expansion to its BLU Acceleration offering, with new software that it says "will enable clients ...
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More than 3.4 billion people, nearly half the world's population, own at least one mobile phone in 2013. As of 2010, more than 90 percent of people worldwide were covered by a mobile phone signal, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend ...
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Ron Elliott brings to Marangoni 24 years of experience leading transportation industry corporate marketing. Marangoni Tread North America Inc. announced that Ron Elliott has joined the company as marketing and communications manager where ...
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Facebook has admitted that teen interest in the popular social media website is waning, even though the number of users grew marginally in the last quarter. "We did see a decrease in [teenage] daily users [during the quarter], especially ...
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