Tag: Data

Twitter Launches 2014 Elections Hub with Curated Tweets and Data
As Twitter has done in the past with big events (both national and global), it has just launched a new activity hub for the 2014 elections. And while some of its past attempts...
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Adam Sandler/Netflix Deal Shows Reliance on Big Data
Netflix is just getting started with this whole original movies thing. Sure, the once-DVD delivery company and future king of streaming has produced successful TV series like...
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Twitter Would Like to Be More Transparent, If They Could
Twitter has just released their fifth-ever transparency report, and it shows that requests for user data, content removal, and copyright takedowns are all on the rise. But the...
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Post Snowden, Tech Companies Are Much More Transparent and Protective of User Privacy
In May of 2013, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published their third-ever "Who Has Your Back" report, which looks at major tech companies and how they stack up when it comes to...
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Michaels Security Breach Affected Three Million Cards
Michaels, North America's largest specialty arts & crafts store, has confirmed that a security breach exposed data from millions of transactions from May 8th, 2013, to January 27th...
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Baseball Fandom Map Based on Facebook Likes Looks Pretty Accurate
Facebook is great for a lot of things, and it's also really bad for a lot of things. If you hate babies, stay away. If you just had your heart broken, stay away. If you don't want...
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Supply Chains To Be Significantly Impacted By Huge Growth Of ‘Internet Of Things’
Gartner is predicting a 30-fold increase in Internet-connected physical devices within the next six years, and says this will "significantly" alter how the supply chain operates, a...
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Kentucky Fans Still the Most Basketball Obsessed, Twitter Data Shows
When it comes to loyal and devoted college basketball fandom, there's simply no place like my old Kentucky home. The University of Kentucky Wildcats have the most wins in the h...
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Microsoft Invests $15M in Foursquare, Acquires Location Data for Bing, Windows
Foursquare has just received a cash injection from Microsoft, and Microsoft products will soon sport billions of Foursquare data points. The two companies have just announced a...
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Facebook Sociology: You’re More Likely to Post a Status If You See a Bunch of Statuses from Friends
Facebook is always screwing around with their news feed algorithms, or what they call "trying to show you better, more relevant content." It's not like Facebook isn't constantly tw...
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Target To Testify Before Congress Over Colossal Data Breach
The House subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade...
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Big Data Market to Hit $32 Billion in Four Years
As the world's information grows at breakneck pace, business are more desperate than ever to parse the overwhelming volumes of data that they now have access to. The enterprise in...
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Amazon’s Best-Selling Album of All Time Shouldn’t Surprise You Too Much
It's hard to believe that this is the first time that Amazon has ever compiled all the data on total sales to bring us the most-purchased albums and songs of all time, but that's w...
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