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December 11, 2012
Cloudera gets $65m big data funding boost

The latest round of venture funding has seen a further sizeable investment pumped into Cloudera for developing its big data products and helping expansion into Europe.

November 15, 2012
Big data app development platform gets $10m

Silicon Valley start-up Continuuity obtains invetsment from multiple leading VCs, shortly after announcing big data app development platform.

Silicon Valley-based tech start up Continuuity has announced funding of $10m (£6.3m) from venture capital (VC) firms to back its service which allows developers to quickly and easily build applications on the Hadoop platform.

September 7, 2012
Big data for broadcasters

A new suite of big data analytics tools has been launched to help TV programmers and broadcasters gain greater insight into viewer engagement and opinion of their shows.

A new suite of analytic tools and technologies for the media and broadcasting industry has been launched to help cope in the era of big data.


Ooyala, the California-headquartered provider of online video technology products and services, has launched a range of big data tools for live digital broadcasters in order to help the companies improve engagement, measurement and revenue.

August 23, 2012
Facebook reveals what it does with big data

The social media giant opened its doors for one day only to explain to a lucky few how it puts its masses of data to good use.

Facebook has shed light on how it uses the huge amounts of big data at its disposal, during a seminar for tech journalists at its Menlo Park headquarters, California yesterday (22 August).
 
The lucky handful were treated to a presentation by Facebook’s VP of engineering Jay Parikh in which he explained how much data the social media site generates and how the company puts this data to intelligent use.
 

August 8, 2012
VMware build big data portfolio

Visualisation specialist continues expansion into big data market with acquisition of Pattern Insight.

 

June 25, 2012
Lack of skills highlighted in survey

US big data specialist Karmasphere finds that three fifths of companies don't have Hadoop skills among existing data analysts.

US big data insight specialist firm Karmasphere says a lack of skills is the biggest problem in the market today, based on first hand research it has carried out.

The Cupertino, California–based firm surveyed 376 professionals and found that this shortage of know-how is driving a collaborative self-service approach to carrying out big data tasks, specifically with the Apache Hadoop tool, across companies of all sizes.

May 28, 2012
Jason Titus, Shazam: Pitch perfect

For a decade now Shazam, the song identification mobile phone app, has been settling bets, discovering new artists and unearthing guilty pleasures for its users. With over a million and half new users each week, the company’s recent growth has been exponential and its big data analytics have opened a range of new possibilities for expansion. Dominic Pollard visited the company’s London headquarters (that’s right, Shazam is a UK company) to speak to its CTO Jason Titus to find out the magic behind the technology.

A magical experience


For those of you who are unfamiliar with Shazam, it’s a mobile app that allows the user to find out the artist and name of any song they hear. Within just a few seconds, that nagging question of ‘oh, what is this song?’ can be answered with one click of a button. As CTO Jason Titus says, “Shazam is like a unique, magical experience.”

May 16, 2012
Yahoo! launches Genome

Internet giant releases big data tool to help online advertisers.

The Internet giant Yahoo! has launched Genome, a big data tool for online advertisers and marketers, it was announced this week.
 
Last month we reported that Yahoo! was looking to take advantage of big data analytics to help it improve its own advertising revenue through more targeted marketing campaigns. Now the California-headquartered company is to release a new product, Genome, to allow users to do the same.
 

April 27, 2012
Big data lends a hand

Money lender ZestCash claims big data will increase the number of successful applicants by 25 per cent.

ZestCash, an online loan provider, claims that it will be able to lend 25 per cent more money by using a big data-based credit assessment method.

The California-based company, founded by former Google CIO Douglas Merrill, will use data from other creditors such as mobile phone companies and payday lenders to create a more accurate system for determining the outcome of loan applications. By analysing multiple sources of data ZestCash will be able to decide how much to lend an applicant and at what rate.

April 26, 2012
Big data for security

McAfee to launch new security product using real-time, big data insights.

Computer security specialist McAfee has this week released its new Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), describing the product as ‘big data for security’.
 
The California-headquartered company acquired the security information and event management (SIEM) specialist NitroSecurity in October 2011. McAfee is now using NitroSecurity’s NitroView product as the foundation for ESM.
 

April 18, 2012
Big data developing cancer treatment

Big data and cloud to help adavance cancer treatment.

Big data is set to play a major role in advancing cancer treatment, with a Cancer Knowledge Action Network having been developed to help with patient care, it has been revealed.