GigaOM’s Structure Big Data 2011 conference spurred quite a few pieces of interesting news, but it also served a great opportunity for us to highlight the big data topics we've been following for o.

One area big data could assist is with industry benchmarking, and helping me identify how my business is doing relative to my peers,” said Sonia Maloney, chief operating officer at Norrep Capital ...

New York City-based Enigma is trying to help users make sense of it all. And it’s raised $1.1 million in seed funding to get it started. The company, which is still in beta, looks at publicly ...