Majority of Americans believe at least some form of COVID misinformation

A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) has found 78 percent of Americans believe at least one piece of COVID-19 misinformation. The nonpartisan survey also found more than one third of those polled believe the US government is exaggeratin… Continue reading Majority of Americans believe at least some form of COVID misinformation

Companies betting on data must value people as much as AI

The truth is, we are still early when it comes to data transformation. The success of tech giants that put data at the core of their business models set off a spark that is only starting to take off. Continue reading Companies betting on data must value people as much as AI

Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work

Census, a startup that helps businesses sync their customer data from their data warehouses to their various business tools like Salesforce and Marketo, today announced that it has raised a $16 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Other participants in this round include Andreessen Horowitz, which led the company’s $4.3 million seed round […] Continue reading Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work

Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more value from their data warehouses

Hightouch, a SaaS service that helps businesses sync their customer data across sales and marketing tools, is coming out of stealth and announcing a $2.1 million seed round. The round was led by Afore Capital and Slack Fund, with a number of angel investors also participating. At its core, Hightouch, which participated in Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 […] Continue reading Hightouch raises $2.1M to help businesses get more value from their data warehouses

3 myths about ISO 27001 certification

ISO 27001 is the international standard for an ISMS (information security management system), a best-practice approach to security that helps organisations achieve all of their data privacy compliance objectives. If you are currently weighing up your o… Continue reading 3 myths about ISO 27001 certification

Microsoft launches Azure Purview, its new data governance service

As businesses gather, store and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data, tools for helping them discover, catalog, track and manage how that data is shared are also becoming increasingly important. With Azure Purview, Microsoft is launching a new data governance service into public preview today that brings together all of these capabilities in a new […] Continue reading Microsoft launches Azure Purview, its new data governance service

Databricks launches SQL Analytics

AI and data analytics company Databricks today announced the launch of SQL Analytics, a new service that makes it easier for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes. And with that, enterprises can now easily connect their business intelligence tools like Tableau and Microsoft’s Power BI to these data repositories […] Continue reading Databricks launches SQL Analytics

Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M

Varada, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on making it easier for businesses to query data across services, today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A round led by Israeli early-stage fund MizMaa Ventures, with participation by Gefen Capital. “If you look at the storage aspect for big data, there’s always innovation, […] Continue reading Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M

GitHub buries 21 TB of open source data in an Arctic archive

While it might seem like the internet is leaving a detailed record of history, the world’s knowledge is all surprisingly vulnerable to being lost in a disaster. To help keep a backup, GitHub has now archived 21 TB of public open source data and buried … Continue reading GitHub buries 21 TB of open source data in an Arctic archive

T-Mobile Suffers a Data Breach, Again

T-Mobile has begun notifying customers of a security breach that might affect an undetermined number of them, possibly revealing their names and addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, rate plans and features, and billing information. Wireless carri… Continue reading T-Mobile Suffers a Data Breach, Again