Over the past 18 months the firm has bought nine companies including an online self-publishing site, a financial-data firm and one with a technology that newspapers can license for an online-payment system.
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Users can now make calls to each other via the Facebook Messenger app anywhere they have a wi-fi or a cellular-data connection.
This transformation from a hypothesis-driven to a data-driven mode has revolutionized other disciplines, such as biology, and may now allow us to systematically improve the quality of education.
If yes, and you can think up a feasible data-ubiquity business model, you may have a top-level case for Big Data.
This is the earliest-known document that describes how to program a stored-data computer.
The Fed previously had a date-driven target, rather than a data-driven one.
Armed with that knowledge, we can start to build a cloud security approach from a data-centric standpoint, designing it to keep our critical data safe and building clouds that are even more secure than we once thought possible.
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Each forms a complete, enclosed big-data silo, designed to lock users into a long-term relationship and keep their data within its walls.
Dunnhumby, a data-analysis firm, uses algorithms to crunch data on customer behaviour for a number of clients.
Dish Network just recently received approval to use some spectrum it owns to build a mobile-data network.
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In 1993 the People's Bank of Hainan decided to establish a provincial financial-data network using a credit card with a microchip.
The great symbol of American mobility is morphing into a network device, a data-generating green machine plugged into a matrix of power grids, cloud computers and social media.
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Traditionally a player that has preferred going after high-value contract customers, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. warmed up to prepaid subscribers over the holidays with a double-data promotional offer.
The other IPOs from financial sponsors have seen an average first-day gain of 22% and are up an average 21% from their listing dates through Thursday, according to Ipreo, a market-data firm.
So when it comes to estimating economic impact for sporting events, best to show caution and restraint, and ultimately attempt to verify any public statements with market research vis-a-vis on-site data collection so that you have a leg to stand on when reporting such figures.
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Despite this, there has not been a uniform trend of ever-increasing support for a Yes vote - the polling data suggesting instead a constant ebb and flow of generally supportive public opinion.
In the words of Christian Chabot, CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software, a Seattle-based data analytics and visualization software company, taking venture capital is like having a loan.
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Sonar scans done at a safe distance of 10 metres create a rough image known as a data-point cloud.
When a friend informed him of a data-entry job in Nairobi, Kenya, he jumped at the opportunity and took a flight to the East African country.
But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).
This is somewhat ironic, because a data scientist is expected to do his or her job in a data-driven way, but that person also needs to be a visionary and think one step ahead of the market in order to develop an innovative product.
By creating a framework to undertand member, employer and proivder data, the company was able to move from a claims-centric data warehouse architecture to one that is information-based and enables them to integrate the data sources faster, allowing the use of more comprehensive information.
It is also a major reason why I put "market research" in the company name, rather than strategy consulting--to emphasize that we are a data-driven firm.
OracleMobile.com and Strategy.com, respectively subsidiaries of Oracle, a database supplier and MicroStrategy, a data-warehousing firm, allow users to select information they want to receive on their wireless devices from corporate websites.
One component of this project is development of a Hydro-meteorological data sharing information system called PIFMIS. Main theme of PIFMIS aka knowledge platform is Hydro-meteorological data entry, analysis, and display of flood related information in a user-friendly way.
As some members of the Supreme Court recognized last year when they considered the use of only a single stream of data -- GPS location -- creating a life stream of data points paints a mosaic picture of a person's actions and habits.
Use VoIP with Skype or Fring if you have a flat-rate data plan, or use a local SIM card if you are on shore.
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As a result, users pay only a tiny data-transport charge, typically of a penny or so per message.
Unlike traditional businesses, where you may have a choice about whether or not to use a data-ubiquity business model, in Consumer Web businesses, there is usually no choice.
Domo is a data-driven company, so it would make sense that data drives its marketing too.
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