DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

Paid Search Just Got Visual: SearchMe Launches AdView Beta (Free Ads For First 500 Signups)

What happens when you make paid search ads both relevant and visual? Searchme, the search engine startup which presents results as a stack of full-page previews that you can flip through, is hoping to find out with the beta launch of AdView. Its first foray into advertising, AdView is SearchMe’s version of AdWords, except that instead of selling of paid text links it will be interspersing into its results clickable previews of entire Webpages, videos, or other visual advertising. If you are an advertiser and want to try it out, SearchMe is giving a free trial to the first 500 companies or individuals that sign up here. That’s right, you get to run a free ad campaign on SearchMe for 30 days. To see how this works, search for “Ralph Lauren” and if you flip through to the third result, it will be an ad that shows a landing page for its fall collection. In other words,... (more)

Google China Signs Big Music For Free MP3 Search Engine

Google China has taken the beta label off its dedicated, free MP3 search engine now that the local Google branch announced deals with all four major music labels (Warner, Universal, EMI and Sony) at a press conference earlier today. The website, which had been in beta for over a year, can be found here, or you can try the translated version (note that you won’t be able to download or listen to songs outside of the country). The site offers over a million music tracks thanks to a partnership with Top100.cn (a company co-founded by basketball start Yao Ming which Google has invested in), most of them Chinese but also foreign tunes approved by the government. For example, users can download the latest Metallica album free of charge, of which you can see a screenshot below. Apart from the four labels mentioned above, several major publishers and 140+ indie labels are s... (more)

Hiring SEO? Consider These SEO Questions

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Google’s self-driving cars have now logged over 300,000 test miles without a single accident

Google Car Other than wanting to live in Kansas City due to fast Internet, I am also waiting patiently for the day where I can hop in a car and it drives itself. The Google self-driving car project has been around for some time, but has crossed a milestone of over 300,000 miles tested. If you hang out in Mountain View around the Google Plex at all, you’ll see these cars driving around with funny contraptions on the roof. You might also spot one on the highway, it’s kind of interesting to watch, but pay attention to the road. Read the full story at The Next Web. ... (more)

Report: Google Plans to Offer Wi-Fi Networks to Businesses

Google may not be able to sell businesses a broadband connection outside of its handful of fiber cities, but it could supply the final wireless link to millions of restaurants, gyms and doctors’ offices, according to a new report by The Information. According to The Information’s Amir Efrati, Google plans to sell Wi-Fi gear at steep discounts to businesses in exchange for managing their applications in its cloud and permission to extend wireless internet access to other Google customers. If the report is true, this could be part of a larger plan by Google to circumvent mobile carriers and use Wi-Fi to connect more of its customers to its services on the go. Key to strategy, according to Efrati, is the emerging technology Hotspot 2.0, which allows Wi-Fi networks to behave more like cellular networks. Read the full story at Giga OM, or the original report at The Infor... (more)

Search Engine Gorillas, Startups to Face Off in First-Ever Vertical Search Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- SDForum, the leading non-profit organization helping to connect and educate Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and technologists, and Simply Hired, the world's largest search engine for jobs, today announced "Vertical Leap," a technology conference focused exclusively on vertical search. The first-of-its-kind event will match leading search engines Google, Yahoo, and MSN against promising vertical search startups, and survey their potential for venture capital investment. Vertical Leap will take place at the Santa Clara Network Meeting Center on Tuesday, June 28, 2005. Session panels will include discussions on search engines for local search, shopping, travel, classifieds & jobs, and news & blogs. "Vertical search has been identified as the next evolution of search, but whether new search startups can differentiate from the Big Th... (more)

World Economic Forum Selects Dilithium for Technology Pioneer Award

Dilithium, the leading global provider of mobile video infrastructure solutions, today received the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2010 Technology Pioneer Award. The company was recognized for its Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA), which brings video to any 2.5G/3G mobile phone (including iPhone, Blackberry and Android devices), PCs and set top boxes. Dilithium joins an elite group of visionary companies chosen by an independent panel of 58 global technology experts for their accomplishments as innovators and developers of technologies that have a deep impact on business and society. Dilithium’s CEO, Paul Zuber, will join global leaders at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland on January 27 – 31, 2010 and receive the Technology Pioneer Award on behalf of Dilithium. Dilithium’s founders pioneered mobile video, working with the Interna... (more)

Mobile Data Corp. Launches Corporate Website, and Announces Plans for its MDC GPS Flagship Application to Target the Growing Market in Smartphones

OTC:BB Symbol: MBYL SAN JOSE, CA, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Mobile Data Corp. (OTCBB: MBYL) is pleased to announce that Mobile has launched its new website at www.mobiledatacorp.com and is preparing to debut its software application technology to the marketplace. The technology is a software application that will run in the background and collect and transmit location data to a server. This information will be invaluable in numerous applications such as location monitoring of motor vehicles, children, and members of social networking groups. Mobile Data Corp. ("MDC") is an independent software development company whose mandate is to provide solutions for telecommunications and computer convergence for the year 2010 and beyond. In October 2009, MDC acquired the right to develop a leading edge Global Positioning System ("GPS") tracking technology for the late... (more)

Strategic Analytics Solution Provider Alteryx Announces Marked Growth and Unprecedented Customer Retention in 2011

IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Alteryx Inc., the leading provider of Strategic Analytics, today announced significant business, customer, and partner momentum with its analytic solutions for enterprise and SMB companies. In 2011, Alteryx generated a 33 percent year-over-year increase in billings, as well as a 120 percent year-over-year increase in customer resell. Alteryx holds a 98 percent customer satisfaction score and a 100 percent customer retention rate – the highest in the industry. Fueled by strong customer deployment, Alteryx increased employee headcount 69 percent to 135 in 2011. To better serve customers and increase the company's national presence, Alteryx opened new offices in Chicago and Dallas in 2011, adding to its corporate headquarters in Irvine, Calif. and office in Boulder, Colo. These milestones position Alteryx for long-term gr... (more)

Pep Boys Shareholder Alert: The Briscoe Law Firm and Powers Taylor, LLP Investigate the Board of The Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack Concerning the Going Private Sale of Pep Boys to The Gores Group

DALLAS, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Former United States Securities and Exchange Commission attorney Willie Briscoe and the securities litigation firm of Powers Taylor, LLP are investigating the sale of The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack ("Pep Boys" or "PBY") (NYSE: PBY) to The Gores Group.  Under the proposed going private transaction, Pep Boys shareholders will receive only $15.00 in cash for each share of Pep Boys/PBY stock owned, which is substantially less than the target price for PBY recently announced by analysts. (Logo:  http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111111/DA05320LOGO) If you are an affected investor, and you want to learn more about the lawsuit or join the action, contact Patrick Powers at Powers Taylor, LLP, toll free (877) 728-9607, via e-mail at [email protected], or Willie Briscoe at The Briscoe Law Firm, PLLC, (214) 706-9314, or via em... (more)