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 ...

Campbell Brown is CEO & Co-Founder of PredictHQ - Demand Intelligence for a dynamic world. Kiwi, family man, lover of travel, data & APIs. For more than a decade, big data has been steadily soaring.

“Data” is the watchword of the progressive gov tech professional today. If we can put a number to a problem — quantify it, catalog it, assault it with an avalanche of analytics — all will be well.

Over a cup of really strong Puerto Rican coffee, sitting here in my timeshare in Humacao and staring out into the Caribbean, I pondered the possibilities. The tempting and obvious dig and easy way to ...

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 ...