Big data has become the focus of many industries, including recruitment. In a bold quest to harness more data, Randstad Holdings made the move to acquire Monster Worldwide for a whopping $429 million.

Companies are generating huge amounts of data - from their own internal systems and from contacts with customers and social media, to name just two sources, and then storing it for as long as possible ...

It is the year 2020, and enterprises are investing heavily in privacy programs. The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) defines information ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how data & data-driven marketing are changing business. This article is more than 10 years old. Big data is new and ...

While Facebook and other global behemoths have long understood the power of data, the recent breaches and unlawful use of personal information have reminded them (and us) that their understanding is ...

In addition to having lost their jobs, Monster.com job seekers may have lost some of their personal information to cyberthieves. Monster reported Friday that cybercriminals had breached its database ...

Monster Worldwide recently discovered that con artists had grabbed contact information from résumés for 1.3 million people — and likely many more, since Monster now says this was not an isolated ...