Big data: The quick and the dead

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The IT hype machine has everyone jumping on the big data bandwagon.

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Facebook’s delicate balance between profits and privacy

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In less than a week, the financial world is going to witness Facebook drive one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. It will make its investors stinking rich and have techies espousing the transformative power of the web and social media.

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CodeTwo Sync For iCloud Syncs iCloud Data with Outlook [Outlook]

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Windows: If you manage your personal contacts, calendars, and to-do items with Apple's iCloud service, CodeTwo Sync for iCloud helps you seamlessly integrate that data with Microsoft Outlook.

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PayPal’s key to winning mobile payments: data

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PayPal’s years of experience in online payments is one of its biggest assets as it chases mobile and in-store transactions.

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How big data will change networking

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Boundary CEO Gary Read What if you could know everything about your network? Instead of getting snapshots — albeit very rapid snapshops — you could see the path of every packet and run basic analytics on that stream of data in real time? It’s the difference between watching a Pixar cartoon as opposed to viewing a flip book

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How to Choose the Best Chart for Your Data [Communication]

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Numbers don't lie, but a bad chart decision makes it extremely difficult to understand what those numbers mean. Before you put together another PowerPoint presentation, make sure your pick the right type of chart to clearly communicate the information you want to share.

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British dotcom vet UpMyStreet sold, again, to Zoopla

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British property listings site Zoopla has bought the veteran local information website UpMyStreet, the two companies announced early on Friday — in a deal that appears to mark the end of the road for one of the UK’s oldest web brands. Zoopla, which is itself in the process of undergoing a merger with Daily Mail’s Digital Property Group , said it was a “natural fit” given the existing commercial relationship between it and UpMyStreet — which provides a database of localized information and service listings. Already, visitors to UpMyStreet are being redirected to Zoopla, and it’s not clear how the site will be integrated in.

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Europe votes to cap data roaming prices, will make it cheaper to tweet from Ibiza

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European Union countries already had a data roaming cutoff law in place to prevent bill shock after your next Balearic vacation, but the price of the data in question should get much cheaper very soon. The European Parliament has just voted 578 to 10 to cap the price customers pay at no more than 70 Euro cents (91 US cents) per megabyte starting from July 1st, with that price eventually dipping to 45 Euro cents (58c US) a year later and just 20 Euro cents (26 US cents) in 2014. Voice and text price caps are going down to as little as 19 and nine Euro cents (25 and 12 cents US) in that two-year span, and if you're visiting from outside the EU, you'll be glad to hear that the anti-bill shock rule will apply to you this year as well

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Adventures in big data: How AddThis’ Hydra works

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Clearspring, a social publishing platform, on Thursday changed its name to AddThis as part of an emphasis on the analytics side of its business. The company, which was formed in 2006 and provides those social sharing buttons that are ubiquitous across the web, also offered analytics services under the AddThis brand. But it realized that the data analytics had become the essential element for its customers and changed its name accordingly.

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Mixpanel raises $10m in bid to dominate data geekery

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Riding a new wave of growth, analytics startup Mixpanel today announced that it had raised $10 million in new funding. Led by Andreesen Horowitz (a new investor), the round also included PayPal  co-founder Max Levchin, Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and Yammer Chairman and CEO David O. Sacks.

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