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Facebook Gets the Vote in Washington State
The State of Washington is set to revolutionize the way in which voters can register for the upcoming presidential elections this week, offering residents the chance to register their vote via Facebook for the first time. For many people, Facebook has already been integrated into various facets of their daily lives, but the new initiative ...
Guess What Facebook? Users Actually Prefer Google +
Facebook’s IPO has turned out to be a bit of disappointment for its investors since its launch on NASDAQ back in May, but one thing we didn’t expect was that its customers are also feeling dissatisfied with the service. According to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, Facebook, which was already the ...
Safe Skouting Kids: Flirting App Overhauls Security for Teens
The popular flirting app Skout has welcomed back teens to its mobile social network, after having barred them for almost one month following three high profile rape cases in which teenage users were abused by adults they’d met through using the app. Christian Wiklund, CEO and founder of Skout, said that the company had no ...
Future Big Data: Troubling Changes for Big Business
Big data is set to pose some seriously big challenges for businesses in the next few years, as the issue of storing all of this information comes to the fore. So massive is the tidal wave of big data that for many, switching over to cloud-based data management systems is set to be the only ...
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 ...