Here are the 24 apps selected by an international panel of independent judges among the over 150 consumer apps from more than a dozen countries submitted to the first Tabby Awards competition. Congratulations to all the winners. The Tabby Awards winners: The best 24 tablet apps for consumers
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View the complete segment CTV News Edmonton’s Consumer Watch reporter Laura Lowe interviews CCP’s Michael Segovia about CPP and Ford’s insight into how personality preferences affect car buying habits. Lowe follows a local Edmontonian prospective car buyer as she takes the MBTI and uses the results to help guide her car buying strategy. Specific tips… View Article
CSC announced that it has acquired Infochimps, provider of a platform that combines an open source NoSQL database and Hadoop to deliver a streaming analytics application via the cloud. According to Infochimps CEO Jim Kaskade, the combination of CSC and Infochimps will rapidly extend CSC’s nascent effort to build out a Big Data analytics service that customers can… View Article
Communication technology is increasing the speed and reach of our connectedness every day. We all know this, and some of us are painfully aware of it; particularly those of us who work in and with the media. Working to deadlines has always been a reality of the news and information trades, but what is changing… View Article
As an intern at any PR agency you are expected to participate and engage, but in addition you have a highly valuable opportunity to observe. I have been fortunate enough to spend some time at offices both in the public sector and in private industry. Being at these contrasting places and observing how the PR… View Article
Jim Kaskade, the CEO of Infochimps, had approached John Lawrie, his counterpart at Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC), to see if he would agree to be an advisor to the Austin, TX, startup. Five months later, the men would be announcing that Falls Church, VA-based CSC would be acquiring Infochimps. “By joining forces with CSC, we… View Article
When Infomart was founded back in far-off 1980s, Big Data wasn’t a thing. Now, it’s kind of the thing. As a media consultancy, it was historically Infomart’s job to help its brand clients, which include among them government entities, corporations, and agencies across Canada, gather media mentions in print resources and some broadcast media. That’s all there really was to… View Article
It’s been somewhat quiet here on the GridGain front for a few months, and for good reason! We just announced closing a $10M Series B investment and bringing an awesome new investor on board. In the last 6 months we not only closed the new round, we also rebuilt and tripled our sales and business development team, retooled our… View Article