- Polyvore Launches Style Analytics - Dec 31, 2010.
measures key trends, the popularity of brands and the amount of engagement users have with fashion brands.
- McDonald's, CBS, & Microsoft Mine Data from Web Ads, Class Claims - Dec 29, 2010.
Defendants acted in concert with Interclick, mining consumers' web browser histories for entries of particular relevance to defendants' respective, customized advertising campaigns, the complaint states.
- Your Tweets Could be Worth Millions ... or not - Dec 28, 2010.
Trading stocks based on data collected through Twitter is either sheer genius or abject stupidity.
- Government Seeks Predictive-Modeling Apps to Fight Fraud in Medicare, Medicaid - Dec 25, 2010.
Federal government will implement predictive-modeling software to fight fraudulent claims for Medicare and Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance program.
- SAS Institute brings 100 jobs to Cary - Dec 24, 2010.
The positions will focus on provide data analysis for state and local government groups that are deciding budgets for 2011.
- Microsoft's Dryad technology to take on Google's MapReduce - Dec 24, 2010.
developed by Microsoft research, Dryad is a platform for running programs across multiple servers.
- Computers That Trade on the News - Dec 23, 2010.
Math-loving traders are using powerful computers to speed-read news reports, editorials, company Web sites, blog posts and even Twitter messages - and then letting the machines decide what it all means for the markets.
- FICO Patents 100th Analytic Innovation - Dec 21, 2010.
The breakthroughs covered by these patents are behind FICO's industry-leading solutions in credit scoring, credit account management, credit fraud management, insurance fraud management and other areas.
- Social Ad Targeter Media6degrees Raises $17 Million Second Round - Dec 20, 2010.
Social media audience data provider Media6Degrees has closed a $17 million second round from Menlo Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and Venrock.
- Geotagging reveals not only where you are, but also people you might know - Dec 19, 2010.
Comparing the locations of photos with social network contacts, researchers found that as few as three "co-locations" at different times and places could predict with high probability that two people posting photos were socially connected.
- Anderson Analytics Beta Testing New Text Analytics Software - Dec 14, 2010.
Market research and data mining consultancy Anderson Analytics is reportedly beta testing its first proprietary text analytics software platform with select Fortune 500 clients.
- Salford Systems, DataLab USA collaborate to win DMA Analytics Challenge - Dec 14, 2010.
The efficiency of the algorithms allowed us to focus on testing innovative approaches to the direct marketing scenario. As a result, we produced 37 percent more profit than the average competitor.
- Advocacy group urges a broader view of data mining - Dec 13, 2010.
Many federal efforts that use data mining might be flying under the radar because the law requiring agencies to report on such activities applies a very narrow definition of the practice
- Business Analytics at SAP(r) EcoHub - Dec 13, 2010.
Site Provides Customers With Intuitive Starting Point for Business Analytics Problem-Solving; Partners Offer Growing Number of Analytics Products and Services
- Mobile analytics firm Flurry raises $15M - Dec 13, 2010.
Flurry runs analytics service used in iPhone and Android apps, and AppCircle, a recommendation platform that suggests apps the user might like.
- GeoEye to Acquire SPADAC Inc. - Dec 12, 2010.
for $46M in cash and stock. SPADAC, a geospatial predictive analytics company, will become a wholly owned subsidiary named GeoEye Analytics.
- HP Gives Up on Business Intelligence and Analytics Markets - Dec 10, 2010.
HP decided to leave the BI market, which includes analytics and data warehousing software. It will do this by shutting down its marketing, sales and product efforts with HP Neoview and related technologies
- Predictions for analytics in 2011 - Dec 9, 2010.
From Int. Institute for Analytics experts, including Tom Davenport, John Elder, Bill Franks, Jeanne Harris, Anne Milley, Niel Nickolaisen, Jeremy Shapiro and James Taylor.
- Research.ly - New Twitter Analytics Tools - Dec 7, 2010.
ReSearch.ly is designed to help brand managers and marketers find the 1% of Twitter users that matter most to them.
- NBA's Orlando Magic bring SAS® Analytics center court - Dec 7, 2010.
SAS for sports provides arena heat map, real-time results on ticket and suite sales for new arena
- SAP HANA will speed real-time data analytics - Dec 6, 2010.
SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance's in-memory technology significantly boosts analytics performance, analysts say
- Smart Grid Data Analytics Market to Reach $4.2B by 2015 - Dec 3, 2010.
The data tsunami that will wash over utilities in the coming years is a formidable IT challenge, but it is also a huge opportunity to move beyond simple meter-to-cash functions and into more robust business intelligence capabilities
- Aster Data and Tableau Software Partnership - Dec 2, 2010.
Aster Data Massively Parallel Analytic Database Integrated With Tableau's Data Visualization and Business Intelligence Applications
- Thomson Reuters Acquires GeneGo - Dec 1, 2010.
Resulting solutions will help biopharma and academic researchers design better drugs
- IBM launches Cognos 10 - Dec 1, 2010.
Latest version of Cognos aims to make analytics mobile and social
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