Yeap, Thank God is Friday. And before you go home and hopefully have a relaxing weekend, here is a list of some interesting things that happened in the Data of Things during this week: news, events, tweets and a bit of humor. These are some relevant things you might want to check... Snow Boarding in Fernie, Canada by Chris Barton In the news: Oracle signs and agreement to buy Bluekai, an important cloud-based Big Data platform for managing online, offline and mobile marketing campaigns Versium, the company behind LifeData, a predictive analytics scoring service launches its new Predictive Fraud Score solution IBM enters an agreement to buy Boston based Cloudant, a Database as a Service (DaaS) company for mobile and web apps development Softlayer, the IBM’s cloud infrastructure provider will infuse Power Systems into their infrastructure, bolstering Big Data in the Cloud NuoDB, a distributed database provider startup receives $14.2 million in funding
Musings about the data (D) of things.