• Twitter buys big-data analyzer Lucky Sort

  By Zach Miners | 13 May, 2013 22:31

  Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how to best place advertisements on its site.

• Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster

  By Zach Miners | 08 May, 2013 01:44

  A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves.

• Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics

  By Zach Miners | 01 May, 2013 01:06

  Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is expected to continue to pose numerous challenges over the coming year, an engineer said.

• IDC: SAP and Oracle winners as software growth slows

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 22 April, 2013 17:03

  A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from IDC. SAP and Oracle fared the best among the large software vendors.

• Mobile phone apps view private data more than necessary, says French study

  By Peter Sayer | 09 April, 2013 22:54

  Mobile phone apps are accessing users' private data and transmitting it to remote servers far more than appears strictly necessary, while users have inadequate tools to monitor or control such access, according to a new study by two French government agencies.

• Health-IT early adopters well-poised for big-data advances in clinical medicine

  By Fred O'Connor | 02 April, 2013 15:21

  Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S. medical providers remain sluggish, with the industry slow to embrace the big-data movement.

• Analytics boost social marketing efforts

  By Sandra Gittlen | 28 February, 2013 11:54

  Big-name companies including General Electric and Best Western are maturing their social marketing programs and integrating social metrics with back-end systems.

• How to Use Big Data to Make Faster and Better Business Decisions

  By Thor Olavsrud | 11 January, 2013 14:21

  Big Data is clearly a disruptive technology, but using it successfully is as much art as it is science. The key is integrating Big Data with traditional BI to create a data ecosystem that allows you to generate new insights while executing on what you already know.

• Why Oracle bought Eloqua, and what it means for the market

  By Chris Kanaracus | 20 December, 2012 20:59

  Oracle surprised many tech industry observers by announcing Thursday it would pay US$871 million for marketing automation software vendor Eloqua. The move seemed a bit unlikely given the amount of sales and marketing software Oracle already had.

• Top 12 Big Data Stories of 2012

  By CIO Staff | 19 December, 2012 14:32

  The holidays are here and 2012 is on its way out, ending a huge year for Big Data. It's time to reflect on the most popular Big Data stories and tips of the year.

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