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Meltwater, a company originally founded in Norway that provides data to more than 25,000 businesses to track where and how they are mentioned in media and other public platforms, has acquired a startup to double down on how it uses machine learni… Continue reading Meltwater acquires Algo, an AI-based news and data tracker
Back in 2015, Microsoft launched a highly visual Power BI data exploration and interactive reporting tool into general availability. The service is now in active use at 200,000 different organizations and the team has shipped 400 updates and new … Continue reading Microsoft’s Power BI business analytics tool learns new tricks
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: warning on extending laptop ban; telecom customers alerted; watchdog opens data probe
Despite massive adoption of Linux in the enterprise, there has been no world-class security offering for Linux infrastructure — until now. In this podcast recorded at RSA Conference 2017, Dino Dai Zovi, CTO at Capsule8, illustrates how they’re pioneering the industry’s first container-aware real-time threat protection platform designed to proactively protect legacy and next-generation Linux infrastructure from both known and unknown attacks. Here’s a transcript of the podcast for your convenience. My name is Dino … More → Continue reading Capsule8: Container-aware real-time threat protection
Your web browsing history contains enough information for third parties to be able to link it to your social media profile (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit), Stanford and Princeton researchers have found. Worrying research results “Our approach is based on a simple observation: each person has a distinctive social network, and thus the set of links appearing in one’s feed is unique. Assuming users visit links in their feed with higher probability than a random user, browsing … More → Continue reading Your web browsing history can be linked to your social media accounts
More than 40 percent of data science tasks will be automated by 2020, resulting in increased productivity and broader usage of data and analytics by citizen data scientists, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner defines a citizen data scientist as a person who creates or generates models that use advanced diagnostic analytics or predictive and prescriptive capabilities, but whose primary job function is outside the field of statistics and analytics. According to Gartner, citizen data scientists … More → Continue reading 40% of data science tasks will be automated by 2020
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based FarmLogs has raised $22 million in a Series C round of funding for technology that helps farmers monitor and measure their crops, predict profits, manage risks from weather, pests and more. Naspers Ventures led the round joined by the company’s earlier backers Drive Capital, Huron River Ventures, Hyde Park Venture Partners, SV Angel and individual investors… Read More Continue reading FarmLogs raises $22 million to make agriculture a more predictable business
81 percent of Feds say their agency is using big data analytics for cybersecurity in some capacity – 53 percent are using it as a part of their overall cybersecurity strategy and 28 percent are using it in a limited capacity. However, breaches continue to afflict agencies with 59 percent of Feds reporting their agency deals with a cybersecurity compromise at least once a month due to their inability to fully analyze data, according to … More → Continue reading Feds are using big data analytics for cybersecurity, but is it effective?
Panoply.io, a startup that wants to make setting up a data warehousing and analytics infrastructure as easy as spinning up an AWS server, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by Intel Capital, with participation from previous investor Blumberg Capital. This follows Panoply’s $1.3 million seed round from late last year. “It’s remarkable that… Read More Continue reading Panoply.io raises $7M Series A for its data analytics and warehousing platform
Necessity is the mother of invention. To match the demands of a threat landscape that has grown exponentially in the last decade, cybersecurity innovation has moved at a break-neck pace. Like all innovation, it solves an immediate need — but it’s difficult to see the new issues it will cause. Cybersecurity point products that focus on one problem – or even one class of problems – have created major obstacles in security management and operations, … More → Continue reading Harnessing integrated security analytics