Global differences of the CDO role | #MITCDOIQ
During the MIT CDOIQ Symposium at the MIT Campus in Cambridge, MA, two people from different parts of the world and at different stages of transitioning into the world of Big Data came together…
Pokémon Go! and Pokémon Stay! How the game has sparked infuriation while businesses are licking their lips
Pokémon Go, the game that’s shocked the world seems to have divided the people and critics alike. On the one side of the schism, the majority perhaps, we hear about a wonderful piece of…
How one city’s CDO leverages data | #MITCDOIQ
Being Chief Data Officer (CDO) for a large city is decidedly different from the typical CDO position. Sam Edelstein, CDO for the City of Syracuse, New York, proves to be atypical not just in his current position, but…
Is the CDO a threat to the CIO? | #MITCDOIQ
A huge issue for this year’s MIT CDOIQ Symposium, taking place at the MIT Campus in Cambridge, MA, has been revolving around the dynamics between the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Data Officer…
Twitch finally prepares to ditch Flash for HTML5
By Eric David
Amazon’s popular video game livestreaming platform, Twitch Interactive (Amazon.com, Inc.), has had its sights on switching to HTML5 for some time, and now it looks like the service is finally getting ready to make…
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AWS could be getting a native IDE in wake of Amazon’s Cloud9 acquisition
After seeing DigitalOcean Inc. become the industry’s second largest cloud provider on the back of its developer following, Amazon Inc. is moving to making its rivaling infrastructure-as-a-service platform more appealing to programmers. The company…
How one company is making Hadoop more accessible | #MITCDOIQ
At the MIT CDOIQ Symposium taking place in Cambridge, MA, attendees are sharing fresh takes on how to solve existing problems with each other, and they are also learning about tomorrow’s tech solutions in…
Google ads under fire in EU for alleged antitrust breaches
By Eric David
Antitrust regulators in the European Union have leveled several new charges against Google’s advertising business, claiming that Google is guilty of anti-competitive practices. The EU antitrust commission says that market dominance is not a…
Replacing man with machine, and the Age of Data 3.0 | #MITCDOIQ
Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) take over more than just factory jobs? There are some who believe AI could take over many of the white-collar jobs as well, including IT. Today’s guests on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE…
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Silicon Valley and Wall St. giants shower $9M on risk analytics startup CyberGRX
Less than 24 hours after network protection provider Bay Dynamics Inc. closed a $23 million funding round, the security space is marking yet another high-profile investment. Denver-based risk analytics startup CyberGRX Inc. today announced…