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B2B Venture Capital: Corporate Social Media, Marijuana Procurement, and Big Data

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This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. PYMNTS breaks down the $24 million in venture capital raised.

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The big data boom – what it means for banking

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Big data has been one of the tech industry’s most popular buzzwords for a few years now. But as the number of data sources grows and technology to process it becomes more powerful, the trend is changing from a nice-to-have addition to becoming an essential part of any company’s offering. Fighting fraud.

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Deep Dive: Digital-First Banks Harness The Power Of Data Analytics

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Financial institutions (FIs) face a perennial challenge in their day-to-day operations — convincing customers to use their products and services rather than a competitor’s. Every interaction tells banks what customers actually want, meaning FIs just need the right tools to interpret this data. Data Analytics Behind the Scenes.

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Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Data & Analytics in the Oracle Cloud

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The world of modern data and analytics continues to evolve and is very exciting. The change really began in earnest about 10 years ago with the introduction of Hadoop and big data processing. While this explosion of data use cases started on premises, it is most certainly migrating to the Cloud as the primary platform.

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Tencent Plans $70B Spend For AI, Cybersecurity, IoT Tech

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Tencent Executive Vice President Dowson Tong said in an interview with state media that the company also wants to put money into experimenting with blockchain, servers, big data centers, supercomputer centers, Internet of Things (IoT) operating systems, 5G networks and quantum computing.

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Google Quits Cookies As Data Privacy Regs Show Fangs

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That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators. In the middle are the consumers whose data fuels eCommerce, social media and basically the entire internet as we know it. This whole field of players now faces a growing throng of government entities pushing for consumer privacy clampdowns.

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Retailers Take Sides In Battle Between Alibaba And Tencent

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As a result, the companies are locked in a race to get consumers and merchants to join their payment, logistics, social media and Big Data platforms. By working with Alibaba and Tencent, merchants can access payment systems and logistics services — as well as Big Data.

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