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“Urban Intelligence” outfit Placemeter Inc. has made a name for itself by offering cities and businesses the chance to measure what’s happening outside of their business premises, on the roads and even in city parks. The company does so by way of …
Hungry industries to drive rapid global Big Data revenue growth
New research from International Data Corp. (IDC) forecasts global revenues in the Big Data and business analytics market to grow from $122 billion in 2015 to $187 billion by 2019, a greater than fifty percent increase over the five-year forecast period. The …
Microsoft beefs up Azure Site Recovery with Flash-based cloud storage options
Microsoft is enhancing its Azure Site Recovery service with a new disaster recovery option that relies on solid-state drives instead of traditional spinning disks. Azure Site Recovery is Microsoft’s chief business continuity offering, and existing customers can replicate their most critical workloads …
Apixio’s $19.3m Series D round highlights the potential of Big Data in healthcare
What with the Affordable Care Act making health insurance more widely available, healthcare providers and other medical organizations are under growing pressure to accurately predict the costs of patient care. Apixio Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based data science company, is hoping to …
Salesforce discloses $75m investments on AI startups in Q1
Salesforce.com, Inc. has disclosed that it spent approximately $75 million on acquisitions in the last quarter, when it bought out three startups. The disclosure came via regulatory filings submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last Friday. In its disclosure, Salesforce …
Judges use biased, racist software to determine re-offending risk
It came as a mild surprise to learn that some U.S. courts actually rely on software to predict the likelihood of convicted criminals re-offending when considering the sentences they hand out. But even more surprising is that the software they use appears to …
U.S. government publishes “voluntary best practices” for drone use
Companies and individuals should refrain from using drones to spy on their employees or their neighbors, but for news organizations it’s well within their remit to do just that. At least, according to new guidelines published by the U.S. government on how …
DriveScale launches scale-out infrastructure platform, announces $15M series A
China’s electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., more commonly known as “Foxconn”, is one of several investors in a new enterprise infrastructure platform developer called DriveScale Inc. DriveScale burst out of stealth last week, announcing a $15 million series …
Microsoft steps up its ‘green’ data center campaign
Microsoft’s data center operations have been officially “carbon-neutral” since 2012, but that’s not nearly good enough for Redmond’s environmentally-friendly bods. They’re not satisfied, because legal loopholes mean that data center operators don’t actually have to use renewable energy directly in order to …
Aqua Security intros a layered approach to container security & compliance
The container security landscape has seen some significant developments over the last year, with Docker Inc. releasing its Docker Security Scanning tool and CoreOS Inc. launching its own Clair security tool. Now, a new player is entering the container security game, aiming …