It has a database of 800, 000 executives around the world who have filed an online self-assessment, together with information on their salaries and education.
It has a database (Hbase), an analytics environment (MapReduce, Hive, Mahout, etc.), and visualization tools (IBM BigInsights being one of many on the market).
The company has already done this with 1, 700 available Android devices, so it has a massive comparative database to form an even clearer picture of the strengths and weaknesses of a new device.
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While it has only a quarter the number of songs in its database, what it has about those songs is deeper and more diverse.
In just a little more than a year, the company has built a menu database that enables it to know pricing details at almost every restaurant across the United States, says Marcus.
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But in recent years it has been beefing up its analytics resources and developing a database that is designed to categorize ETF information in a more easily digestible fashion.
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to create a central database of real-time trading activity, another in a string of proposals it has made in the last few weeks in response to concerns that the stock markets are broken.
It also has a large number of people who are great at database virtualization.
It has an enormous demographic database that it collected when it had a monopoly on mortgages.
Earlier this week Google introduced us to its Knowledge Graph, a 500 million plus fact-filled database that it has developed from its own research and its acquisition of MetaWeb Technologies.
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For the past four years, it has sought authority to use the National Directory of New Hires, a database of wage and employment information maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services, to verify that information on tax returns actually corresponds to a real job.
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Google, for example, has come under fire in the past for the way it handles a massive database of user search data.
The problem is that, as Roberta Wohlstetter pointed out half a century ago in her study of Pearl Harbor, separating out the really important signals from all the "noise" in the system is only easy to do after the fact, particularly when the U.S. government has now assembled a database of an astonishing number of 700, 000 individuals it suspects of ties to terrorism.
But Uptake, backed by Shasta Ventures and Trinity Ventures, has a database of 1.8 million travel destinations, hotels, and attractions that it has been building for the past three years.
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Facebook has an enormous database of member-created content from which to search, and that puts it in a unique position relative to Google or Microsoft Bing that search on public websites.
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Youku has developed a sophisticated monitoring system: dozens of editors watch new material and classify it, building a video database that can be used to find good content, but also to block undesirable clips.
And it has contactless payments embedded in the phone initially with Visa and configured in such a way that Samsung will grow its database on its worldwide users.
Love insists that Hyseq has a unique gene-finding technology that will help it discover genes that have been missed both by other gene database companies and by the U.S. government-funded Human Genome Project.
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