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Why Groupon's top data scientist quit to join this predictive analytics company

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BY IDG ENTERPRISE
October 17, 2013
InCITE Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT

Why Groupon's top data scientist quit to join this predictive analytics company

After trying out BigML, a predictive analytics service, Groupon's chief scientist David Gerster invested in the company and recently decided to join it as vice president of data science. He exlained why to CITEworld.

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Google: The cloud company that doesn't trust the cloud

In an interview dripping with Silicon Valley irony, Google's CIO explained why he doesn't let his employees use rival cloud services. He doesn't trust them.

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How the "One Microsoft" vision is already changing the company

Company reorgs don't happen overnight but we're hearing the same story from multiple teams at Microsoft. One Microsoft is making sense to them - which means it might just work.

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As Windows Phone scales up, Windows RT gets squeezed

Microsoft's update to Windows Phone will support devices as big as 6 inches. If rumors are true that a forthcoming Windows Phone update will go as large as 7 inches, Microsoft is about to be in a messy situation.

Salesforce Identity rocks the boat for startups like Okta and Ping

Salesforce Identity becomes available to anyone today, representing some stiff new competition for startups like Okta, OneLogin, and Ping that trailblazed this market.

VMware grabs the company who trademarked "desktop as a service"

Desktone provides key technology for offering Windows desktops as a service, enabling smaller companies to deliver Windows apps to mobile devices in a relatively cheap and easy way.

Startup Foko is building an Instagram for the enterprise

The bootstrapped startup has been testing its product with a number of "Fortune 50" retailers and says it's seeing high engagement from users.

Georgia Tech will train young scientists to use data to build space-age materials

Finding new, advanced compounds and materials can take up to 20 years as scientists engage in trial and error to see what fits. Using analytics, they hope to cut that down to just a few years. But first, they have to train materials scientists in how to use Big Data tools.

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