After the resignation of its CEO and later its founder in the wake a personal conduct probe, numerous store shutdowns, and a $1.7 billion quarterly loss, Best Buy is trying to draw people back to its Continue reading…
Patrons of about two dozen San Francisco bars will soon find a new set of notices and cameras inside, but they won't be for security purposes. Instead, it's the work of SceneTap, a social app that Continue reading…
For residents of several key metropolitan hubs across the US, Foursquare check-ins are being used for more than just sharing information with friends. A new study by Carnegie Mellon University called Continue reading…
Google has been on a quest for transparency lately, offering users Data Liberation downloads, Google Account Activity, and an account dashboard where they can make granular changes to their privacy Continue reading…
Dataminr is an analytics company that draws trends from social networks for various business clients, and today it revealed a partnership with Twitter that grants it access to over 340 million tweets Continue reading…
What's your Google life look like? How many emails do you send / receive throughout the week? What's the busiest day? Who do you contact the most? From where are you (or rather, from where is your Continue reading…
For the first time ever, China has surpassed the US in iOS and Android device activations, taking the top spot globally. App analytics company Flurry reports that last month, Chinese users on the two Continue reading…
Stephen Wolfram loves data. The creator of Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica has spent the last 20 years of his life collecting facts and figures on his everyday movements, from emails, to phone calls, to Continue reading…
Beta testing tool TestFlight is already used by over 70,000 iOS app developers, and now people can deploy the same code used for testing to gather data on their apps. A new service — called Continue reading…
You might like Facebook and Twitter for keeping up on the news and communicating with your friends, but big businesses like social networking because of the wealth of data it provides. Thankfully for Continue reading…
