The news has been littered with outrage following the revelation that 50 million Facebook users» data was harvested
by analytics company Cambridge Analytica and used to influence voters in the 2016 American election.
RIM has won a legal case brought
by analytics company BBM Canada, formerly known as the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement, over the right to use the BBM name with its BlackBerry Messenger service.
The interactive graphic below, created by the graphics company visual.ly from data compiled
by analytics company CrunchBase API contains information on 31,216 startups and tens of thousands of founders.
A graph published
by analytics company BlockSeer suggests customers withdrew over half of the $ 1 worth billion bitcoins stored in Coinbase's «vault» storage service:
Statistics done
by analytic companies also come to the same conclusion as is expected since newer operating system means better...
Basically, the way that online ads should be if only everyone weren't so paranoid about one another / didn't get sold
by analytics companies that they needed 10 trackers for 10 slightly different niches.
Not exact matches
Once dominant in the smartphone industry, the
company has lost significant ground to the competition: RIM's chunk of the U.S. market dropped to just 12 %
by year - end from 44 % in 2007, according to research firm Strategy
Analytics.
A recent digital wallet survey conducted
by data
analytics company Thrive Analytics, reported on by trade publication Payments Source on Wednesday, shows that while 80 percent of consumers are aware that digital wallets exist, less than one third
analytics company Thrive
Analytics, reported on by trade publication Payments Source on Wednesday, shows that while 80 percent of consumers are aware that digital wallets exist, less than one third
Analytics, reported on
by trade publication Payments Source on Wednesday, shows that while 80 percent of consumers are aware that digital wallets exist, less than one third use one.
The hearing will give lawmakers the chance to ask the Facebook CEO directly about the
company's involvement in the improper harvesting of data from an estimated 87 million users
by Cambridge Analytica, a data
analytics firm that worked for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
His
company, social
analytics startup Awe.sm, was scaling quickly, converting from a platform used
by developers to track social - sharing data to one used more broadly
by brands and marketers.
And in contrast with bottled wine, most people don't feel they need a special reason to purchase wine in a can, says Nielsen senior vice president Danny Brager, citing a November 2017 survey
by the data and
analytics company.
«Looking back now, that seems like small change,» says Gillis, the 18 - year - old CEO of what's now Bitness.io, a location
analytics company that aims to help retailers boost sales
by understanding shoppers» purchasing behaviour.
• Valor Water
Analytics, a big data
company providing financial and conservation solutions for water utilities, has been acquired
by Xylem (NYSE: XYL).
By leveraging predictive
analytics,
companies can anticipate the wants and needs of their customers to create customized experiences — finely tuned for individual preferences.
Notable
companies include navigation system Zurich Eye and eye - tracking tech startup the Eye Tribe — both of which were acquired
by Facebook's virtual reality arm Oculus — and Terraloupe, an aerial image
analytics startup.
The analysis, done
by Millennial Branding and
analytics company Identified.com, was created
by a team of data scientists crunching raw information from 4 million Facebook profiles of young people to uncover how they are representing themselves on Facebook — and whether they're using the social network for business purposes.
The president of the
company takes the role of the HiPPO («Highest Paid Person's Opinion»), a term coined
by Google
Analytics expert Avinash Kaushik.
The report, produced
by legal
analytics company Lex Machina, shows that Apple is the most named
company in patent infringement cases, and not just as the plaintiff.
Solutions are now available (including Watson
Analytics developed
by my
company, IBM) that are designed not only for data scientists and analysts but for every business professional who uses data.
«The ICO has been investigating the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica as part of a wider investigation into the use of personal data and
analytics by political campaigns, social media
companies and others.
The San Francisco - based
company's
analytics are used
by 170,000 developers and it is currently running on more than 1.4 million mobile devices, according to Yahoo's announcement of the deal.
A report released
by targeted ad
company xAd and call
analytics firm Telmetrics reveals that almost 50 percent of mobile shoppers say mobile ads are «informative / helpful» and 70 percent have noticed mobile ads in the past 30 days.
Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of
analytics that
companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done
by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at
company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.
Out of all Super Bowl LI advertisers, Netflix (nflx) generated the most social actions with 554,000, followed
by Budweiser (433,000) and Mr. Clean (413,000), according to ad -
analytics company iSpot.tv.
Mixpanel, a data
analytics company founded in 2009 and funded
by the likes of Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, tells developers how exactly you're using their websites and apps.
Joint research
by Harvard Business Review
Analytics and EY's Beacon Institute shows that
companies focusing on purpose to drive performance see higher profitability.
Shares fell 5.1 percent to $ 5.22 in extended trading after the
company missed first - quarter sales estimates, selling 2.2 million devices, compared with 2.33 million expected
by analysts, according to financial data
analytics firm FactSet.
«Our platform allows
companies to react to changing conditions real - time, learn about their fleet through data
analytics, and improve their end - customer experience
by letting them know exactly when they're getting there.»
Stamos, whose plan to exit the
company later this year was reported Monday
by the New York Times, was responding to reports that the shadowy data firm Cambridge
Analytics gained illicit access to data collected from 50 million Facebook accounts and used it to help Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
But data
by a hedge fund
analytics tool called Kensho shows the stocks of these
companies are reacting differently this time.
There are a few
companies which,
by applying
analytics to countless small projects over decades, have emerged as
companies that bring a legitimately data - driven approach to everything they do.
Sam Palmisano, meanwhile, has built on his predecessor's legacy since 2002
by pushing the
company deeper into services, software and
analytics.
A few questions caught Zuckerberg off guard, including one
by Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington, who asked him if data
analytics company Palantir scraped Facebook user data to allegedly aid Cambridge Analytica.
«
Companies now want
analytics to be used
by tens of thousands of their employees, rather than just the specialists,» says Adam Selipsky, a veteran of Amazon's cloud - services division who became Tableau's CEO in August 2016.
The
company has been hit
by negative headlines since a number of media publications reported that the data of millions of users were improperly harvested
by controversial political
analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.
Another top disclosed transaction was the $ 142 million acquisition of Sg2, a provider of healthcare market intelligence, strategic
analytics and clinical consulting services,
by MedAssets, a healthcare performance improvement
company.
U.S. corporate earnings held overseas
by Russell 1000
companies reached $ 2.6 trillion in 2016, according to data consultancy Audit
Analytics, a figure that has more than doubled since 2009.
Referral traffic (desktop + mobile) to the top 30 Facebook publishers (as defined
by their reliance on Facebook) plunged 32 percent from January to October, according to SimpleReach, a distribution
analytics company.
By 2014, the
company closed a $ 41 million round of Series C financing, and today has 350 employees delivering network diagnostics and security
analytics systems.
Update: A spokesperson for the ICO said is investigating 30 organizations, including Facebook, as part of its probe into the use of personal data and
analytics by political campaigns, parties, social media
companies and other commercial actors.
AggregateIQ is now among 30
companies being investigated
by the UK's data watchdog, the ICO, as part of an ongoing (and now almost year - long) investigation into the use of data
analytics for political purposes.
It was at that point, according to the New York Times report, that the team at the Psychometric Centre was approached
by Christopher Wylie, who worked at a
company called Strategic Communication Laboratories, self - billed as a data
analytics company «to governments and military organizations worldwide.»
Companies can get a good start on finding consumer discovery preferences
by using a combination of CRM, web
analytics, social media monitoring tools and competitive research tools.
By the end October, Canadian
companies were involved in more than 426 deals worth $ 68 billion, a three - year high, according to M&A
analytics firm Mergermarket, and there was still more than a month left to go at press time.
Topsy, a third - party social -
analytics company acquired
by Apple last December, unveiled a similar tweet library more than a year ago.
The
company's activities are being looked at as part of a wider investigation
by the ICO into the use of data
analytics for political purposes.
China will this year become the world's largest mobile gaming market
by revenue, earning more than $ 6 billion, says Peter Warman, CEO of Dutch mobile
analytics company Newzoo, which analyses data from its Chinese partner TalkingData.
Allocadia is helping
companies get the most out of their marketing budgets
by providing them with actionable ERP and CRM
analytics.
In a major reversal, photo posts are now the worst performing of all posts
by Facebook brand pages, according to new data from social media
analytics company Socialbakers.
Text
analytics have been used
by companies for years, but most people do not think about how they can apply text
analytics to make their employees» social interactions more effective or efficient.