Southwest China's Guizhou province is eyeing big data industry to beef up its lagging economy, local officials said on Saturday.
What Chinese region hosts women with the largest breasts? The country's netizens might guess, but its biggest e-shopping website, Taobao.com, knows. It's the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to an infographic the company produced. Taobao Marketplace created the visual representation from online shoppers' data it collected and analyzed to enable bra companies to tailor advertisements to individual women. It's a reminder that data crunchers are mining our every online activity for marketing gold. And this rising industry is becoming more sophisticated. Box office forecaster Entdigital sifted through social networks to correctly predict China's top-grossing director Feng Xiaogang's 1942 would earn 370-400 million yuan ($60-65 million) - far less than the producers' and public's expectations - a month before it hit screens.
The Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) held an academic forum in Beijing on May 8, 2013.
Chinese companies will need more advanced technology to process their increasing amount of unstructured data as they enter into global competition, said Ernie Hu, global vice-president and director of the software group at IBM Greater China.
China's National Bureau of Statistics will start using big data technology to improve the collecting, processing and producing of the country's consumer price index.
Jointly organized by the Shanghai MediaV Advertising Company and Beijing-based iResearch Consulting Group, the 2nd China Internet Marketing Product Forum was held on Nov 28, 2013 at Beijing's Four Seasons Hotel.
Many may suspect that people living in the Chinese capital are more interested in the ongoing political sessions than those in Guangdong, but are unable to prove it.
The Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC) held an academic forum in Beijing on May 8, 2013.
Observers analyzing the benefits of the sensational deal between Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Sina Corp's Weibo service reckon data resources may be a hidden treasure for both companies.
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