by CDO Review Staff | May 30, 2019 | Asset Management and Trading
A controlling stake in financial news and data firm Acuris was purchased for $1.76 billion by the ION Investment Group, owner of the data provider Dealogic. Acuris owns the MergerMarket and Debtwire brands. Here is an excerpt from a report on Acuris published by...
by CDO Review Staff | May 29, 2019 | CDO Insider, Chief Data Officer
Suresh Kumar, who has worked at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, has been picked by retail giant Walmart as its new CDO/CTO reporting directly to Walmart CEO Doug McMillon. Sarah Perez filed this report on Kumar for TechCrunch: Kumar most recently worked at Google,...
by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The White House announced that President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring a national emergency over perceived security threats from foreign telecom companies, particularly from China. No Chinese company was singled out in the executive order but it...
by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Experts weighed the benefits of Google’s new privacy tools launched earlier this May and found them wanting. Sundar Pichai, the tech giant’s CEO, said that the privacy tools prove Google’s commitment to the privacy rights of its users. Princeton computer scientist...
by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Chief Data Officer
While having enough data is always good, reaching for more and more data might not be better for your company. A couple of Andreesen Horowitz researchers question the benefits of endlessly accumulating data. Here is an excerpt from an interesting blog post on...
