The researchers had access to
company data including performance evaluations and salary records.
Not exact matches
These activities
include the sale of online advertising space, the supply of platforms connecting users and suppliers of services and goods (probably meaning
companies such as Airbnb and Amazon), and the sale of
data derived from user - provided information.
Investors in Bugcrowd's latest round of funding have privately valued the
company at $ 115 million,
including the new funds raised, according to
data provided by Pitchbook, a site that tracks venture capital deals.
We spoke with Grady Summers, a vice president at Mandiant Corp., an Alexandria, Va. - based information - security firm, and former chief information security officer at General Electric Co., to assemble a list of easy - to - use, free tools that any
company —
including those without a technology staff — can use to create a comprehensive security program to protect its network, computers and
data.
Some of the
company's recent problems
include the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtaining
data on up to 87 million Facebook users.
Had it been passed, it would have required service providers — which
include telecom
companies such as Verizon and AT&T — to obtain a customer's permission before that
data was used, shared or sold.
Here's your explanation of today's biggest headlines,
including a
data - mining controversy,
company terms and 4/20.
Other
companies combining satellites and
data analytics
include Digital Globe and Orbital Insight, but they use satellite imagery more than tracking
data.
By collecting
data points from users» bikes,
including revolutions per minute, speed, and distance, and matching it against other Peloton cyclists, the
company says it motivates customers to work harder.
These
companies see blockchains as an opportunity to revamp their
data management processes across a complex network that
includes farmers, brokers, distributors, processors, retailers, regulators, and consumers.
Dataminr is the biggest player in a nascent industry — call it alternative big
data for big finance — that has exploded in the past six months: In March it raised $ 130 million from Fidelity as well as other investors,
including former Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, valuing the
company at $ 700 million.
Every Friday afternoon, Phunware's controller emails an overview of the
company's financials to the management team,
including data on key metrics such as cash on hand, obligations, and the quick ratio, which the
company derives from dividing cash plus receivables by current liabilities.
These risks and uncertainties
include, among others: the unfavorable outcome of litigation,
including so - called «Paragraph IV» litigation and other patent litigation, related to any of our products or products using our proprietary technologies, which may lead to competition from generic drug manufacturers;
data from clinical trials may be interpreted by the FDA in different ways than we interpret it; the FDA may not agree with our regulatory approval strategies or components of our filings for our products,
including our clinical trial designs, conduct and methodologies and, for ALKS 5461, evidence of efficacy and adequacy of bridging to buprenorphine; clinical development activities may not be completed on time or at all; the results of our clinical development activities may not be positive, or predictive of real - world results or of results in subsequent clinical trials; regulatory submissions may not occur or be submitted in a timely manner; the
company and its licensees may not be able to continue to successfully commercialize their products; there may be a reduction in payment rate or reimbursement for the
company's products or an increase in the
company's financial obligations to governmental payers; the FDA or regulatory authorities outside the U.S. may make adverse decisions regarding the
company's products; the
company's products may prove difficult to manufacture, be precluded from commercialization by the proprietary rights of third parties, or have unintended side effects, adverse reactions or incidents of misuse; and those risks and uncertainties described under the heading «Risk Factors» in the
company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and in subsequent filings made by the
company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC»), which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
The only
data I found that
includes pre-venture
companies was from the Census Bureau, but
includes all small businesses, and obviously does not track investor returns.
Its $ 495 price tag
includes a two - year
data plan with AT&T, which means it does not rely on a smartphone for connectivity, as do most smartwatches, the
companies said in a press release on Monday.
Where we were able to find fully detailed diversity
data — which was the case for 16
companies — we
included it in our dataset.
Data and analytics
company ListenFirst tracks social media conversations across a variety of online platform partners — Facebook, Google, Instagram, Tumblr, Wikipedia, and YouTube — and tracks the volume of daily engagements with entertainment brands and products,
including movies.
Jana also reported new positions in
companies including First
Data Corp., Molina Healthcare Inc. and DXC Technology Co..
Noteworthy tech startups
include Gnip, which was one of few
companies given access to Twitter's massive
data streams, Orbotix, an $ 11 million - funded robotics mobile device innovator, and SendGrid, a cloud - based email infrastructure that has delivered 58 billion emails to date.
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 port, which is not found in other Apple notebooks,
including the
company's MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, allows not only for charging, but also
data transfer and video output.
Consider Exabeam, a big -
data security
company that has raised $ 35 million in financing,
including contributions from Aspect Ventures.
Snowden's leaks showed that Section 702 collects content of digital communications directly from the internet backbone and through a program formerly code named Prism where the NSA gathered
data directly from several
companies,
including Facebook, Google (goog), Apple (aapl) and Microsoft (msft).
Musk's salespeople have managed to book 14 flights for customers
including NASA, the Malaysian government, and MDA, a Canadian
data company, charging from $ 7.1 million to $ 35 million per trip.
The
company's
data - as - a-service program charges $ 2,500 a day, and customers currently
include commercial fisheries, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security.
The
company's
data - as - a-service goes for $ 2,500 a day, and customers currently
include commercial fisheries, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Business Insider has previously reported that executives behind the firm,
including former CEO Alexander Nix, have already established a mysterious new
data company named Emerdata.
This
includes what hackers are talking about (i.e. is a hacker forum discussing your
company), what ways hackers attack
companies, which
companies have most recently been attacked, how quickly
companies react, and what their history with
data security are.
From mid-May through July, an as yet unidentified hacker group gained access to a large swathe of this
data —
including names, birthdates, street addresses, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers — the
company disclosed last month.
Three senior executives
including the
company's chief financial officer sold $ 1.8 million in shares three days after the
company learned on July 29 hackers had breached personal
data for up to 143 million Americans.
While the two
companies, Apptimize and Localytics, were only given limited user information, each user's HIV status and «last tested date» were linked to other personal information
including GPS
data, phone ID, and email address.
The 56
companies on our 2017 Change the World list, which
includes six smaller rising stars, are tackling problems obvious and not - so - obvious — from Accenture, which is using
data to reduce E.R. visits, to DSM, a Dutch life sciences
company, that is fighting greenhouse gas emissions from a notorious source: cow flatulence.
The new features, which are part of Adobe's marketing software business, «can capture and analyze voice
data for all major platforms
including Amazon (amzn) Alexa, Apple (aapl) Siri, Google (goog) Assistant, Microsoft (msft) Cortana and Samsung (ssnlf) Bixby,» the
company said in a statement.
Facebook's
data - use policy says the Menlo Park, California,
company can deploy user information for «internal operations,
including troubleshooting,
data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.»
Uber paid hackers $ 100,000 to cover up a 2016 cyber attack that exposed the personal
data of 57 million people,
including both riders and drivers, the
company announced.
This
data included an engineer's gender, city, and tenure at the
company.
Some recent enterprise infrastructure
companies that have recently gone public
include data center hardware makers Nutanix (ntnx), Pure Storage (pstg), and
data analytics specialist Cloudera (cldr).
The gaming
company said this week that hackers had released stolen
data about its users,
including emails, private messages, and phone numbers after it refused to pay $ 100,000.
«If you're entrusting critical business operations and sensitive
data to these
companies, it's important to
include security in the evaluation process and fully understand what sort of recourse is available should the service fail.»
On Monday, nearly 6 % of all U.S. - based Android owners were playing Pokémon Go, exceeding usage for some of the world's most popular services,
including Netflix (NFLX), which was running on 3.6 % of Android devices, and Pandora (P), which topped out at 5.7 % of Android products, according to new
data from digital - tracking
company Similarweb.
Several
companies are vying for Perot Systems,
including India - based Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and NTT
Data, according to Reuters report on Monday.
Among its best features: an overview of current events within each
company and industry; a summary of each business's history from the start - up stage forward; and an index of
data, which
includes contact information for each business.
New enhancements to the Premium edition
include the ability to synchronize
data from multiple users into a central database from inside or outside the
company firewall and to assign access rights to specific contacts by users or teams of users.
Tsinghua Unigroup has spent more than $ 9.4 billion making acquisitions and investments at home and abroad over the past two years,
including the purchase of stakes in U.S.
data storage
company Western Digital Corp (WDC) and Taiwan's Powertech Technology Inc..
Until just a few years ago, a good disaster recovery plan
included insuring your
company against flood and disruption, backing up your
data and storing it in a different location once a week, as well as developing a contingency plan for your employees to work from home, or some other location.
In a followup statement to the press, a MoviePass spokesperson said the
company was «exploring utilizing location based marketing as a way to help enhance the overall experience,»
including by using
data «to better inform how to market potential customer benefits
including discounts on transportation, coupons for nearby restaurants, and other similar opportunities.»
«Many
companies in (Silicon Valley) have been reluctant to divulge that
data,
including Google, and, quite frankly, we are wrong about that,» David Drummond, who oversees Google's public policies, said at the time.
Late Friday, Reuters reported that Verizon was weighing a sale of enterprise assets,
including what used to be known as MCI and Terremark, a
data center - and - cloud
company Verizon bought 5 years ago to boost its presence in cloud computing.
«Uber's lack of security regarding its customer
data was resulting in Uber employees being able to track high profile politicians, celebrities, and even personal acquaintances of Uber employees,
including ex - boyfriends / girlfriends, and ex-spouses,» Uber's former forensic investigator Ward Spangenberg was quoted as saying under penalty of perjury in filings from a lawsuit is pursuing against the
company.
Following the revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had secured all - but - unfettered access to user
data held by the largest U.S. tech
companies,
including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, politicians and businesses around the world were struggling to figure out what exactly this news meant for them.