Need to do a background check? There’s an iPhone app for that! A new iPhone app lets you run background checks on people for free. The BeenVerified app will do a background check and send the results to your mobile phone. All of the information provided by BeenVerified is pulled from existing public records sources […]
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Have you ever wanted to know what one of the big public records aggregators and data providers like ChoicePoint, Accurint or Acxiom knows about you? When you apply for a job, security clearance or even an apartment, the company or organization will often do a background check on you as a precondition for employment etc. […]
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KDnuggets data mining site recently released a poll of its users to determine the top business uses and fields where Data Mining was used in 2009. Here are the top ten areas for data mining use from the KDnuggets poll: – CRM/ consumer analytics [ 32.8% ] – Banking [ 24.4% ] – Direct Marketing […]
Twitter is adding to their geolocation technology through their purchase of Mixer Labs. Mixer Labs’ GeoAPI is a tool that helps developers create geolocation-specific applications for the Twitter messaging service. The technology will allow Twitter users to identify the location where a tweet was posted from. The GeoAPI tool can track the location of tweets […]
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The Facebook social network experienced wild growth in 2009. Facebook went from 50 million registered people in January to more than 350 million registered people in less than a year. Facebook spent $9.5M in 2009 to settle a lawsuit regarding their advertising tool that was rolled out in 2007 and viewed by many as an […]
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