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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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