This week IBM’s Information on Demand 2013 event took center stage, bringing Big Data to the front and center of the tech community. Mixed into all of the #IBMIoD coverage was news that Blackberry called off the selling of its assets, instead raising money to refocus its strategy on enterprise services. But those are only two of the top stories featured on SiliconANGLE this week.  Here are the six stories you can’t miss.

Big Data + Analytics : A $200 billion market | #IBMIoD

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Dave Laverty, Vice President, Big Data & Analytics at IBM, explored the company’s Big Data go to market strategy with theCUBE at IBM Information on Demand 2013. IBM’s strategy, Laverty explained, “connects back to what we’re trying to do as an organization.” The company has major initiatives around cloud, mobile, social, Big Data & analytics. The Big Data and Analytics market has been estimated at $200 billion market and IBM aims to reach $2o billion by 2015.

Watch the full interview on theCUBE below:

Healthcare data useless without future predictions + family

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Dr. Tim G. Buchman, Professor of Surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine, joined John and Dave on theCUBE at IBM IoD for what was our most popular interview. It’s a new era of business, admitted Buchman, because there’s the pressure to take care of more patients at lower costs. Drawing a connection to GPS technology, Dr. Tim G. Buchman believes that Big Data is going to integrate the information into a more coherent picture and it’s going to help understand when the patient is going to veer off course.

Watch the full interview on theCUBE below:

Anonymous hacks The Straits Times, threatens war

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Singapore’s leading newspaper, The Straits Times, became the latest victim of hacktivist group Anonymous this morning, after the collective hacked its website to announce the start of an all-out war against the country’s government. A member of Anonymous posted a message onto The Straits Times’ blog, in retaliation for a ‘misleading’ article written by one of its journalists, Irene Tham.

BlackBerry’s temp CEO has software sense : BB revisits BYOD

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Another plot twist for the troubled tale of BlackBerry’s sale – it is no more. The Canadian phone maker has abandoned its plan to sell its assets, instead raising around $1 billion from its largest shareholder et al., trying once again to resuscitate its relevance. It appears the dead deal puts Fairfax, the BlackBerry shareholder originally set to acquire BlackBerry, in a better position to maintain influence and returns on BlackBerry’s portfolio.

China market still going strong, another study ‘Bitcoin is broken’

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Bitcoin hit as high as $250 this week, while it is still speculated to be due to the introduction of China to Bitcoin exchange markets (and not without some convincing evidence.) China and Bitcoin: You’re going places, baby! Other Bitcoin news this week includes: New Cornell University study: Bitcoin is not broken…or not and The United States Senate eyeballs Bitcoin.

Failure as a Service : Obamacare site security flaws emerge

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The Healthcare.gov technology story isn’t going away anytime soon. As tech rescue teams have come to save the day with what they hope will be a rapid fix for the struggling site (#strugglebus), the first of what may be a number of security issues have started to emerge. It’s a situation so dire that even the consumer website Consumer Reports has advised the public to not submit any information to the system until the fixes are in…and that isn’t happening anytime soon.