A new big data institution, part of the University of Oxford, that has been proposed to dramatically improve the healthcare industry has received sizeable financial backing from the UK government.
While the growth rate of the enterprise software market has slowed from the previous two years, IDC reveals that big data and cloud are providing a significant boost to sales.
Big Data Insight Group travelled to Denmark to participate in Teradata's annual conference, with this one addressing the opportunities and challenges presented by big data. Here is a review of the three-day event.
The leading job fair that has helped recruit countless skilled employees for London's Tech City booming start-up companies is now to become a start-up itself to further its work.
A new database of 160 million records about people's journey patterns and interaction with advertising looks set to transform out of home advertising in the UK.
As we move further into 2013, the time has come to check out some the year’s new offerings in terms of exciting new apps. We pick our top four making the rounds of the news at the moment.
Big data software created by US defence giant Raytheon which allows users to create a detailed picture of an individual and predict their movements through social media activity has been met with criticism from civil rights groups.
The city of Glasgow is to become one of the UK’s first ‘smart cities’, having won a government grant of £24m to investment in its infrastructure and technology services.
Last week marked the launch of big data firm Ayasdi, a Silicon Valley-based outfit that is making ground-breaking developments in the field of data analysis and visualisation through its use of topology.
