big data

Customer Service Is Next Job for IBM’s Watson

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 20 at 9:46 pm PT

Keeping track of what consumers like and dislike is a beefy computing problem.

Will Bloomberg Disclose How Heavily Reporters Mined Customer Data? (It Watches Them, Too.)

Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 13 at 1:38 pm PT

Bloomberg tracks its employees as much as it does its clients. It probably knows exactly how many times a controversial function was used by its reporters.

Actian to Acquire Big-Data Startup ParAccel

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 25 at 4:00 am PT

Actian rolls up its third acquisition in five months.

IBM Knows When to Acquire and When to Divest

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 28 at 8:56 am PT

Also, Big Blue bets bigger than before on Big Data.

DataGravity Lands $30 Million From Andreessen Horowitz; Levine Joins Board

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 29 at 4:56 am PT

Extracting intelligence from stored data is hard.

Has Big Data Reached Its Moment of Disillusionment?

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 24 at 4:36 pm PT

Big Data is hard.

IBM to Acquire StoredIQ, a Manager of Corporate Data

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 19, 2012 at 8:32 am PT

Big Blue adds to its ability to derive meaning out of mountains of old corporate data.

Oracle Acquires DataRaker, a Big Data Supplier to Utilities

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 13, 2012 at 6:59 am PT

A step for Oracle into analyzing data generated by smart meters.

Exclusive: Cloudera Closes Massive $65 Million Funding Round at $700 Million Valuation

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 6, 2012 at 12:06 pm PT

This Hadoop thing? It just might just be going places.

Eight Questions for Rick Smolan About the Human Face of Big Data

Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 4, 2012 at 4:56 am PT

A defining book that makes a previously nebulous concept understandable.