by CDO Review Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Deals
Formerly called Google Life Sciences, healthcare data startup Verily has collared a billion dollars in a mega-funding round led by tech investment firm Silver Lake. No details were provided about the possible uses for the funds raised. Ruth Porat, CFO of google parent...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Deals
Xpansive, a data startup that focuses on the commodity value chain, has attracted $10 million in Series A Funding from the likes of BP Ventures, Avista Development, and Energy Innovation Capital. More on Xpansiv from this report in AIAuthority: Xpansiv transforms...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Chief Data Officer
Singapore is unrolling the welcome mat for big data firms as it plans to amend its copyright laws to allow the free use of lawfully-acquired copyrighted text for analysis. More on this from Computer Weekly: The exception to the law will allow copying of copyrighted...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer
By imposing severe limits on the amount and types of user data that companies could gather, regulations like the EU’s GDPR could actually benefit businesses by forcing them to focus on high-quality data while discarding the rest. Here is an excerpt from an article in...
by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | Chief Data Officer
If you value your online privacy, it isn’t just Facebook, Google, or Amazon you have to worry about. The real privacy “Death Stars” are companies named Oracle, Experian, and Salesforce that operate in the background largely free from oversight. Privacy activists want...
