Net, which promises a commercial free, real-time socially driven information stream with an open API for developers.

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The business of publishing road atlases and maps, previously dominated in North America by players like Rand McNally and AAA, was a data-scarcity-driven business (real-time position and road condition information was too expensive to collect and deliver to the point of use).

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Who influences is very topic driven and based on real-time dynamic responses .

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With particular emphasis on the live game experience, a Live MatchHQ service features data-driven content, including real-time scores and stats, highlights, message boards and more, all in a single unified interface.

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Innovative solutions like demand-driven forecasting, in which real-time customer demand information is translated into super-lean production and delivery, have allowed companies to dramatically reduce inventory levels and the costs associated with them.

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At the same time, limited space for real-estate development has driven up property prices across the board.

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But this increased demand for core assets from financial institutions and sovereign-wealth funds buying into real estate for the first time has driven up prices and driven down yields.

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The transformation driven by a data lake will implement the paradigm of operational intelligence, a more real-time, automated way of using both structured and unstructured data, both from real-time sources and historical repositories in a way that allows analysis to be as automated as possible.

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This is an additional layer of market information...markets are driven by greed and fear, so if you can understand fear and quantify it in real-time, you could use that to protect yourself.

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