Startups Aiming to Get Teachers, Executives Big Data; Fahad Hassan, Justin Langseth Comment
A Rockville, Md.-based startup wants to bring big data into the education sector, the Washington Post reports. Steven Overly writes angel investors gave $650,000 to Always Prepped to start a new website for teachers to track attendance and academic performance, using aggregated data from databases. Founder Fahad Hassan told Overly the company changed its approach [...]
Cost-efficiency is both a buzzword and a norm for the government in an era of tightened budgets. The Defense Department is no exception and the Pentagon is looking to information technology as the key to achieving the goals of both cost-efficiency and information sharing. Semantic web is the path the Pentagon has chosen for IT, [...]
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Neustar, Inc and Targus Information Corporation have entered a definitive agreement where Neustar will acquire TARGUSinfo for $650 million in cash, in a deal designed to extend Neustar’s ability to provide services based on unique, non-replicable datasets. TARGUSinfo is an independent provider of real-time, on-demand information for services such as Caller ID and online information services [...]
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Iron Mountain Among Most Innovative Users of Technology; Tasos Tsolakis Comments
September 14, 2011 No CommentIron Mountain Incorporated is ranked 47th on the 2011 InformationWeek 500, a list of the top technology innovators in the U.S., as a result of a project to improve the performance of its North American truck fleet. We’re honored to be ranked in the InformationWeek 500 for the ninth consecutive year and thrilled to be recognized in the [...]
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