Mike Wheatley
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Healthy Big Data: Predicting and Preventing the Spread of Disease
Big data has many uses. Banks use it to make money and improve customer care, automobile makers are hoping it will help them to develop better production processes, and even pizza companies are using it to make sure they never run out of ingredients. These are all well and good, but what about using big ...
Social Media is for Girls
You’d be forgiven for thinking the opposite might be true, given that most guys love nothing more than to show off their latest gadgets and demonstrate their expertise with all things technical. But, from a social viewpoint at least, you might be shocked to learn that girls are streets ahead. A new infographic from the ...
Building Big Data: The Coming Data Spectrum Crisis Explained
Most consumers take it for granted that they can switch on their smartphones and gain instant access to a world of Tweets, Facebook friends and Google apps, but in the next couple of years, staying connected might not be as easy as all that. Apparently, the United States is bracing itself for a data crunch, ...
Feeling Inadequate Today? You Can Blame Facebook
A new study of social media users has found that more than half of all users’ lives have been changed – with half of these claiming that these social websites have made their lives worse as a result. Working on behalf of the charity Anxiety UK, the Salford Business School at the University of Salford ...
Kayak Doubles IPO Expectations After Solid Quarter, Mobile Growth
It’s taken them 21 months to get things organized, but travel website Kayak’s flotation plans finally seem to be back on track following the announcement of its IPO. Early Monday, Kayak updated its S-1, saying that it hopes to be able to raise a total of $100.6 million after setting its price range at $22 ...
Big Money Data: Three New Ways Finance is Using Big Data
The emergence of big data cannot be underestimated. Big data is becoming more important in just about every industry, but perhaps none more so than in the arena of finance. Banks, lenders, Wall Street firms and even department stores are fast embracing this new reality. In today’s Big Money Data series, we take a look ...
Strange Big Data: Some Food for Thought
The phenomenon of big data has thrown up all kinds of weird and wonderful ideas as to how this mass of information might be used to improve our lives. From obvious uses such as saving money, and identifying renewable resources, to more far-out visions of one day running our cities, it’s become pretty clear that ...
BlackBerry Leak Unveils Two Phones, Hints at Microsoft Team Up
Research in Motion has made a lot of headlines today, but instead of more doom and gloom for the embattled smartphone manufacturer, today’s news actually has a rather positive spin for once. The biggest story in the news today is that Blackberry is planning a comeback – and when we say ‘plan’, we really do ...
No More Apples Please… It’s Samsungs That’ll Keep The Doctor Away
How are you feeling today, Samsung Galaxy S III fans? If you’re feeling a little bit under the weather this morning, then you might just be interested in the Korean firm’s latest new offering – the S Health application, which has been rolled out today exclusively for users of the new, high end Android smartphone. ...
Big Brother’s Big Data: How Governments are Saving Money
Ask ten people at random what the biggest deciding factor in this year’s presidential elections is likely to be, and you’ll almost certainly get the same answer – money. For politicians, money is first and foremost on their list of concerns, and not only in the sphere of elections. While spending money is what gets ...