- Who has access to the data when it comes to social media measurement? Mashable
- Check out Facebook’s and FourSquare’s recent improvements to their analytics capabilities. Small Business Trends
- Big data solutions: IBM teams up with Revolution Analytics to bring R analytics programming language to Big Data. GigaOm
- Data privacy and the cloud are unsurprisingly hot topics at SXSW. CMS Wire
- Major security breach: California based insurer Health Net says data servers containing health records for about 2 million people cannot be accounted for. ABC
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