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The future of propaganda: A Q&A with Sean Gourley about big data and the “war of ideas” -
During the Iraq war, the U.S. military used open-source data, from news reports to Facebook photos, to help detect patterns in the violence.GigaOm 2 hours ago:
Six finalists in the book discovery Publishing Hackathon; winner to be announced at BEA -
The six finalists of the Publishing Hackathon held over the weekend in New York focus on discovering books in new ways -- whether it's by browsing book jackets or getting recommendations based on your web browser history.GigaOm 2 hours ago:
Why one startup thinks laying a few bets could help companies convince employees to slim down -
A new startup is using financial incentives and penalties to help employers encourage their employees to lose weight and lower their risk for chronic disease.GigaOm 2 hours ago:
Knewton teams up with Macmillan to bring adaptive learning beyond K-12 and higher ed -
Knewton, a New York-based adaptive learning startup, has partnered with education publisher Macmillan.GigaOm 4 hours ago:
Why racist, nasty comments are better than none at all -
Many publishers treat obnoxious comments as a problem to be solved -- Above the Law takes the opposite approach, and embraces readers as they are.GigaOm 4 hours ago:
Orchestrate.io gets $3M to crunch many kinds of data in the cloud -
Many companies rely on multiple databases, but what if you could take bits and pieces from each and make queries that way? Orchestrate.GigaOm 4 hours ago:
With $10M, ConsultingMD helps patients get speedy second opinions from top specialists -
Startup ConsultingMD has raised $10 million to enable patients to reach the country's leading medical specialists for second opinions delivered online.GigaOm 5 hours ago:
Exclusive: LogMeIn launches AppGuru to help IT wrangle consumer apps -
AppGuru will work with LogMeIn's own web conferencing; cloud storage and screen sharing applications as well as Google App sand Office 365, says LogMeIn CEO Michael Simon.GigaOm 6 hours ago:
SAP to bring in autistic workers as software testers and programmers -
Those on the autistic spectrum often display highly focused and analytical traits. SAP is the latest company - and the first major multinational - to move to harness these characteristics for IT-related work.GigaOm 8 hours ago:
