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Some think we’re on the cusp of a virtual world called ‘the metaverse’ some are skeptical

Read why Sean Monahan says he is skeptical about the new virtual world called The Metaverse on Guardian : Maybe this will be my Paul Krugman moment. The Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist was famously the winner of a study to establish which op-ed commentator was most consistently correct. In 1998, he […]

Palantir: Growth Has Only Just Begun

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) is due to report earnings for its second fiscal quarter next Thursday and the big data analytics firm is all but set to report impressive revenue and free cash flow growth, with a guidance raise being a possibility. The firm may also give an update about customer uptake of its new “Foundry […]

How Big Data Investments Could Affect A Variety Of Industries

Read Sylvia Jablonski explain how big data companies like Palantir Technologies, Inc. and Snowflake have a great future on Forbes : Big data describes the large amounts of information that could be analyzed or unanalyzed, structured or unstructured and an untapped resource or a potential headache for the whole range of businesses and sectors. Big […]

Big Tech has its eyes set on the metaverse. Here’s what that means

Read Clara Duffy explain what The Metaverse is and why Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is focussing on it on CNN : Facebook has many pressing problems, from proposed antitrust legislation to accusations that the company is contributing to vaccine misinformation. But when CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined a recent conference call with analysts to discuss its […]

Dell Technologies CFO Tom Sweet On The Chip Shortage, VMware Spin-Off And The Post-Pandemic IT Market

The global chip shortage has impacted everything from the production of game consoles and smartphones to computers and home appliances. One of the industries affected the most is tech, which saw an uptick in demand for PCs and laptops when Covid pivoted employees and students to work remotely. Even Dell Technologies, which has a global […]

Bitcoin retakes $46,000 as rebound continues

Read explain why Bitcoin managed to break past the crucial $46,000 barrier despite the ongoing Senate debates on cryptocurrency as a part of the yet-to-be-passed infrastructure bill on CNBC : The price of bitcoin broke past $46,000 on Monday morning after a high-stakes weekend for the crypto industry as the Senate continued debating the details […]

A Purposeful Mission and a Culture of Innovation Fuels Balbix

Our CEO and Founder Gaurav Banga recently shared a post (excerpted below, full post here) on LinkedIn which talked about how cybersecurity is now a big data problem. “With the exploding enterprise attack surface, there are practically unlimited permutations and combinations of methods that attackers use to breach organizations. Enterprises have deployed dozens of security tools, […]

Palantir: Revolutionizing big data analytics

Read Jeremiah Lam’s commentary about Palantir Technologies, Inc. and its products like Gotham, Foundry, and Apollo on his blog : A brief background on Palantir – it is typically described as a company that focuses on big data analytics by writing software that enables effective analysis against complicated, data-driven problems. This is done by unifying […]

Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’

Read Jessa Crispin’s critical analysis of The Metaverse and how big tech could influence it on The Guardian : Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the […]

Elevate Security unveils cybersecurity surface management platform

US cybersecurity startup Elevate Security (Elevate) has launched an attack surface management platform that uses a customized and automated response to employee risk throughout an organization to overcome the unaddressed problems caused due to human errors. The Elevate Security platform provides CISOs (Chief Information Security Officer) with access and control over how people, departments, regions, […]