Many retail companies across the globe are waging a significant, undercover war amongst themselves. This invisible battle is fuelled by th need to maximise profitability and maintain, or even increase, market share. Image found medium.com While … More ...
Some people have the view that data harvesters are unscrupulous, data-thieving, money grabbing pirates of the digital oceans. Others believe that we are part of the Mafiosi, living in the shadows of the dark-web. Hacking sites, … More ...
Internet bots. We’ve all heard of them. Everyone recognises that they exist among us on the internet, stealing concert tickets, influencing political elections. But do we really understand what these bots actually are? Essentially, ‘bots’ are … More ...
In mid 2017, LinkedIn was sued by HiQ Labs, an analytics start-up based in San Francisco. Who are HiQ Labs? HiQ Labs scrapes data of thousands of employees via their public profiles on LinkedIn. They then analyse this data to provide … More ...
Southwest Airlines sue SWMonkey.com, a website committed to helping Southwest travellers obtain the cheapest airfares. The website was developed in November by Pavel Yurevic and his partner Chase Roberts. Both understood the toll of overpriced … More ...
All You Need Is the Right Data Scraping Partner Odds are your business needs web data scraping. Data scraping is the act of using software to harvest desired data from target websites. So, instead of you spending every second scouring the internet … More ...
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It is no longer a secret: To best serve your customers, improve your decision making and beat your competition, you need data. On top of that, any old data won’t do: Businesses need recurring, up-to-date and high-quality data that is structured for … More ...
Odds are you want (and need) to grow your business. To do this, you need leads. Let’s chat about leads for a second. In its simplest form a lead is: “A person who has indicated interest in your company's product or service in some way, shape or … More ...
Big Data. This term is getting a lot of buzz these days. You know you probably need it, but what is big data? Is it complicated? Is it expensive? What teams need access to data? How do you get it to them? Once you have the data, what do you do with … More ...