Elucify, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class wants to solve an annoying and persistent problem for sales people — making sure they have the most recent customer contact data. To solve this problem, the company created a plug-in for Salesforce.com CRM based on machine l … | Continue reading
Google Apps for Work Unlimited customers can now benefit from better attachment scanning in Gmail that uses optical character recognition to check before sensitive document copies or images are sent out of your company via email. Google’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) launched late … | Continue reading
Europeana hopes to promote the adoption of the IIIF technology by demonstrating its value. As part of the Europeana Cloud project, a document proposing data modelling solutions for representing digital objects (such as images) and full-text with a particular focus on Newspapers r … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price continued to consolidate in a tiny range, and waiting for a catalyst for a break in the short term. As highlighted yesterday, a contracting triangle pattern formed on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) is still in play and may act as a catalyst … | Continue reading
According to new data from freelance placement firm Toptal, Swift is the most in-demand developer language. The study, which compares requests from prospective employers year over year, shows a 600 percent increase in requests for developers who know Swift. Second is HTML, which … | Continue reading
In a New York case, Judge Orenstein has ruled in favor of Apple, denying a government request for information on an iPhone. Read More | Continue reading
Google announced a number of new security features for Gmail users in the enterprise today. Last year, the company launched its Data Loss Prevention (DLP) feature for Google Apps Unlimited users that helps businesses keep sensitive data out of emails. Today, it’s launching the fi … | Continue reading
Data intelligence startup Terbium Labs announced today that it staged a $6.4 million series A investment led by .406 Ventures. The Baltimore-based startup said it’ll use the investment to fuel enterprise sales of its intelligence system Matchlight, a dark web data intelligence pl … | Continue reading
Current and former Snapchat employees had their identities compromised last week after one of their colleagues fell for a phishing email. The attacker pretended to be CEO Evan Spiegel while asking for employees’ payroll information, according to a company blog post. The payroll s … | Continue reading
The Parallels Desktop 11 & SSD2go 128GB USB Drive Bundle is a Mac user’s best friend in the making, delivering upwards of 128GB of data in an ultra-portable USB 3.0 SSD drive, as well as the world’s premier choice for running Windows or Linux on a Mac. Both offer significant effi … | Continue reading
The draft text of an agreement between the EU and the US to establish a new self-certification framework governing transatlantic data flows aimed at ensuring data protection and privacy compliance when Europeans’ data is taken to the US for processing has now been published. But … | Continue reading
Download our 2018 content marketing calendar template to make planning and organizing your strategy easy all year long. Includes bonus templates. | Continue reading
The United States and the European Union have finally aired the details of their new post-Safe Harbor spying arrangements – which are designed to alleviate fears about the extent of America’s power over European data. Although not officially part of the deal, perhaps the most sig … | Continue reading
The US and the European Union today released the full text of a transatlantic data transfer agreement that was reached earlier this month, detailing new rules for American tech companies and intelligence agencies. The framework, known as the EU-US Privacy Shield, places tighter r … | Continue reading
Snapchat suffered a data breach over the weekend after one of its staff fell for a phishing email asking for payroll information and purporting to be from the company’s CEO Evan Spiegel. The company has assured the world that its servers were not breached – so no user data has be … | Continue reading
Snapchat has revealed it was targeted in a phishing attack by a scammer impersonating Evan Spiegal, the company’s co-founder and CEO. The popular social network, which has raised more than $1 billion in funding, received an email last Friday requesting payroll data for employees. … | Continue reading
A software developer in Denmark has created a way to track the sleep patterns of his Facebook friends using only the activity data available on the social network. The tool, developed by Søren Louv-Jansen, is based on the activity timestamps that Facebook stores on users of its s … | Continue reading
Snapchat is famous for its disappearing messages, but not everything is ephemeral. Today the company disclosed that a number of its current and former employees had their identifies compromised following a phishing attack staged on the company this month. Read More | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price is trading near a crucial area, and both buyers and sellers must be very careful moving ahead. There is a contracting triangle pattern forming on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken), which may ignite a lot of moves in the near term. A break belo … | Continue reading
The use of data management platforms (DMPs) among industry professionals continues to grow. Yet, those same marketers are skeptical of DMPs' ability to deliver on expectations and business goals, according to research. | Continue reading
Marketing technology has become big business over the last five years, securing $134 billion in venture funding and spawning more than 2,000 new companies. New channels, new data streams and new workflow have emerged to disrupt important aspects of marketing at big and small comp … | Continue reading
With another work week coming to a close, the weekend is a good time to catch up with the fast-paced tech scene. At Index we gather tech coverage into one platform for tech enthusiasts to keep up with the news and access that data. In this series, we fill you in every week on wha … | Continue reading
Key Points Bitcoin price after trading near the $450 level found sellers and started to move down. There is a bullish trend line formed on the 4-hours chart (data feed from Bitstamp), which may be seen as a buy zone in the near term. On the upside, the $450 is a major resistance … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price surged higher and traded near a major resistance area of $6.60-65. There is a breakout structure forming on hourly chart of Ethereum price (data feed via Kraken), which may act as a catalyst for the next move. The price is well above the 100 hourly s … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Litecoin price recovered this past week after a bad streak, and if buyers gain control there is a chance of further upsides. The price is placed well above the 100 simple moving average on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Bitfinex), suggesting sellers struggled to … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Dogecoin price continued to struggle this past week and traded lower to test the 60.0 Satoshis support area. There is a bearish trend line formed on the hourly chart (data feed from HitBTC), which is acting as a hurdle for buyers. The price is also below the 100 si … | Continue reading
The United States has set out limits to its use of data collected in bulk about European citizens after a new information-sharing pact was agreed this month, according to documents seen by Reuters. | Continue reading
Im vergangenen November haben wir eine Tabelle veröffentlicht, die zeigte, dass „bevölkerungsrepräsentative" Bundesbürger mit digitalen Begriffen nicht viel anfangen können. Eine am Donnerstag veröffentlichte Umf... | Continue reading
From Britain’s railway mania of the 1840s to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, innovative new technologies have routinely touched off periods of near hysteria as marketers and commentators promise world-changing disruption; excitement builds to a fever pitch and the marketpla … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service said on Friday an investigation into a hacking attack revealed in May found that cyber criminals had made attempts to gain access to about 390,000 additional taxpayer accounts. The tax agency said 295,000 taxpayer transcripts were also tar … | Continue reading
This past week included the biggest event in mobile tech in Barcelona, the continuing #OscarsSoWhite drama about lack of diversity at … | Continue reading
In this post I'm going to be looking at using Redis as a data persistence layer for a Go application. We'll start by explaining a few of the essential concepts, and then build a working web application which highlights some techniques for using Redis in a concurrency-safe way. Th … | Continue reading
The year is 2016, and you still have a floppy disc-compatible A drive in your computer. You wouldn’t want to just let that go to waste, would you? But how do you put a 3.5-inch floppy to use when they only hold 1.4 MB of data?You throw an SD card in it, which conveniently fits ri … | Continue reading
The bots are coming, and Quang Hoang knows it — so much so that he’s willing to bet his entire company on it. So what once started out as an app like Expensify is now Birdly, a Slack bot that makes it easier to call up customer data directly within Slack from sources like Salesfo … | Continue reading
For the past three years, digital advertising firm Exponential has correctly predicted the winner of the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards using a model built from its treasure chest of Big Data on consumers. That would be interesting in most years to film nerds like me. B … | Continue reading
Introduction In this post I talk about three data structures I implemented to compare their performance in different scenarios. The three data structures are Trie, Ternary Search Tree and Radix Tree. All the code for the data structures as well as the tested scenarios are availab … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price after spiking one final time above the $6.50 level found sellers and started to move down. The highlighted bullish trend line on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) was broken to take the price down intraday. The price is currently trading near t … | Continue reading
Back in November, Airbnb released a massive data set on the status and characteristics of its hosts in New York in an attempt to better detail what kind of people put their rooms or entire homes for rent on the platform. While Airbnb’s statistics looked like it had a significantl … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Personalization is key to tapping into customer loyalty, but you’re leaving them cold if you’re not working with unified data. Join Dun & Bradstreet CMO Rishi Dave along with Mozilla’s Jascha Kaykas-Wolff and VB’s Andrew Jones as they share how to construct a comprehe … | Continue reading
Airbnb renters apparently weren’t the only one cleaning house before guests arrived — the company did the same last year just one month prior to publishing listings data. In a letter addressed to New York state legislators and Airbnb users on Wednesday, the company admitted to sl … | Continue reading
Weeks before he got on stage in front of investors at a Y Combinator demo day, entrepreneur Brian Liou made a massive change in his company. Leada originally set its sights on helping students apply their data science knowledge to real-world examples, but in a pivot, it switched … | Continue reading
Discover how to make smarter decisions about content with data from this case study featuring American Cancer Society. | Continue reading
To ensure complete data security and privacy for TRI’s Turing Phone owners, TRI moved its manufacturing operations to Salo, a city with an impeccable history in mobile phone production,” said Steve Chao, the CEO of Turing Robotics. Read More | Continue reading
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Microsoft today announced the launch of multiple products that are meant to make companies more secure online. Perhaps the most compelling new feature is a more intelligent way to spot threats that could affect applications and data that companies are running on Microsoft Azure. … | Continue reading
The one thing we know about privacy and data security is that we have neither. Those words are more true every day and if a federal judge gets her way, the state of privacy throughout the world is about to get a lot worse.Apple is currently wrestling with the FBI and Department o … | Continue reading
You’re going to need a big ol’ pile of cash if you want to get into high-end virtual reality on the PC, but that is creating an opportunity for Samsung and Google to sweep up entry-level consumers. Mobile VR is on track to reach $861 million in revenues this year, according to da … | Continue reading
The FBI made a group of security researchers hand over their findings about the TOR anonymity network so that it could track users’ digital footprints, the BBC reports. The two Carnegie Mellon University researchers’ data – after being subject to a court order – was used by the F … | Continue reading