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Invest In Demand-Side Platforms To Lift Productivity And Performance

Forrester IT

In 2007, when DSPs emerged, they coincided with the growth of real-time bidding, a practice since revealed to be rife with data leakage and brand safety concerns. Demand-side platforms (DSPs) are defined and confined by the acronym’s connotations.

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Former Facebook engineers lead Seattle-based investment firm backing data-focused startups

GeekWire

Ravi Grover, general partner at Data Tech Fund. Back when Ravi Grover and his colleagues at Data Tech Fund were getting off the ground a few years ago, not everyone was excited about their focus on data. Siva Kolappa was head of data engineering at Facebook, where he worked from 2008 to 2014.

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The Ethics Of Big Data: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Are Writing New Case Studies For Us All

CTOvision

The term “Big Data” has been around quite a while (see a short history of Big Data here), but really came into mainstream discussion in 2007 (which also happens to be the first year CTOvision used the word). The phrase had an important role in helping many of us think through new architectures for how […].

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The Story No One Cares About: PC Sales at lowest number since 2007

CTOvision

The analyst firm IDC reports that worldwide PC shipments in 2015 were about 300 million units, on par with 2007 numbers. Big Data : For years now people and our sensors and our computers have been generating more information than we can analyze. Bob Gourley.

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Apple marks Data Privacy Week with in-store privacy training, more

Computerworld Vertical IT

Apple this year is marking Data Privacy Week by working to educate iPhone users about the privacy protection tools they already have in hand, a move that has implications across any business that wants to maintain privacy. Data protection is the bedrock of business Data Privacy Week grew out of the Jan.

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Data Control Platforms Leverage Machine Learning & AI

Dataconomy

The financial crisis of 2007 – 2008 resulted in marked changes to the institutional financial sector landscape. Weaknesses were brought to light and financial institutions were forced to reevaluate how they were managing data and restructure as. This article was originally published on Grit Daily and is reproduced with permission.

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Recent Windows update wants to snoop through users' Office data

TechSpot

Microsoft was seemingly searching for info over users of Office 2013, Office 2010, and Office 2007, with an update. Microsoft released the KB5021751 update in January, explaining that it was to "help" the company identify how many users were still running unsupported or soon-to-be-unsupported versions of the Office productivity suite.

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