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Companies see innovation without results

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Aversion to risk leads to missed opportunities

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ATM Heist points to payment systems issues
– by Avivah Litan
Businesses are keen to collect more data, but is there a point where data poses a risk? KPMG’s Eddie Short thinks there is. We also talk to McLaren’s CIO about protecting the car maker’s information and ask Lindsey Evans, president of ad agency TBWA, about how technology has changed her industry
– Stephen Pritchard
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New and updated sofware from this year’s I/O
– Chris Nuttall
The Big Data May 6, 2013

What Big Data Means for Business

In this, the first of a monthly series on Big Data, Garner analysts explain the ‘ Big Data difference.’

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Cybersecurity: a real world challenge

Q&A with John Taylor, cybersecurity chief at British American Tobacco

Jane Bird Apr 29, 2013

Visual analytics in Hong Kong

Software revealed that one individual submitted 5,800 road-related complaints over four years, writes Jane Bird

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Pop tarts, goats’ cheese and Manchester City

When analysing business data, don’t confuse correlation with causation, warns Capgemini‘s Steve Jones

  • Week in review, May 18
    Tony Hayward returns from the depths; Tata Steel writedown; Google turns up the challenge;
  • UBS bankers raise concerns about chat groups
    Swiss institution warns staff to avoid putting information about clients on external platforms after senior employees raised concerns about Bloomberg
  • Tencent: phone company killer
    China’s version of Facebook, MSN Messenger, Zynga and Blizzard Entertainment all rolled into one is annoying the country’s big mobile phone operators
  • Google: $900 breached
    The interesting question now is not whether they can breach $1,000 but rather what keeps them from the fate of Apple’s shares
  • Yahoo spared $2.7bn Mexican damages
    A Mexican court has overturned an earlier ruling in a contract dispute in which $2.75bn in damages against Yahoo was awarded to former partners
A small bull and a bear (R) symbolising the up and downward trend in stockmarket movements stand in front of a display panel at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, 29 June 2011. This Wednesday 29 June 2011, the Greek parliament in Athens had passed the latest austeritiy package which was anticipated with great interest, and which would make way for the Greek government to receive further international financial aid in billions of euro ©Photoshot From MARKETS May 12, 2013

Regulators expand market fraud net

Financial watchdogs seek ‘sentiment analysis’ software

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Guest Column: ecosystems can benefit businesses

‘Co-innovation’ has huge potential to drive business growth for both companies and their partners, says SAP’s Eric Duffaut

software maker SAP shows one of the company's server rooms in Walldorf, Germany ©AP Inside Business from COMPANIES May 8, 2013

Cloud hangs over software old guard

Future structure of market could hit established players

L.S. Lowry - A Lake Apr 30, 2013

‘Data lakes’ could be the key to unlocking security concerns

Business insights are being stymied by lingering concerns about cloud secutity, says Booz Allen Hamilton’s Michael Faber

data thief illustration ©Øivind Hovland From SPECIAL REPORTS Apr 23, 2013

Spy chiefs warn of increased cyber risks

Paul Taylor discovers security experts on both sides of the Atlantic are calling for closer co-operation with businesses to prevent attacks