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• 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.

• EXCLUSIVE: As IT becomes critical, more dependence will be placed on datacentres, says NextDC

  By Hafizah Osman | 18 April, 2013 13:28

  Future-proofing the datacentre should be a core focal area for end user organisations, according to datacentre vendor, NextDC.

• It is time to start doing something with all of that data: IBM

  By Patrick Budmar | 11 April, 2013 17:25

  The data is there, but according to IBM business analytics and optimisation leader, Graham Kittle, it is what we do with it that counts.

• 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.

• Within change, there is tremendous opportunity: Cronin

  By Hafizah Osman | 03 April, 2013 11:17

  The 2013 ARN ICT Industry Awards were recently launched in Sydney with the annual Judges' Lunch. Intel Asia Pacific director of regional sales and business development, Philip Cronin, spoke to the gathering of industry leaders about change within the IT industry.

• 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.

• 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.

• Presidential election a victory for quants

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 14 November, 2012 12:33

  If there was one lesson for political pundits from last week's presidential election, it was that basic statistical modeling techniques can be used to predict election outcomes with stunning accuracy.

• Analytics vendors show there's still innovation in BI

  By Bill Snyder | 11 September, 2008 10:12

  Managing data isn't as glamorous as many of the glitzy Web 2.0 apps on display at the Demo Fall 2008 conference in San Diego, but it's what keeps businesses running. Enterprise applications to speed databases, manage unstructured data, and handle BI queries on a massive scale made their debut this week, and at first blush they look positive. Of course, all will have to stand the rigor of real-world use and testing.