Australian consumers want banks to use big data analytics to analyse their behaviour and alert them to security risks, but most don’t want their social media data tapped into by these institutions, a new report claims.

Kirsten Lynch, CMO at US-based Vail Resorts, says her partnership with the CIO leads to better guest experiences.

The retailer is using Microsoft PixelSense, Kinect and a new mobile app to create an interactive experience while making stuffed animals

if reports are accurate, Facebook may soon be where smartphone and tablet users can get the latest news from around the world.

Cloud computing provider Joyent, a company with robust engineering chops that's looking to compete with the heavyweights of the industry, today rolled out Manta, its newest service that offers object storage with baked in compute features.

Companies who have been assessing Google’s planned remedies to anti-competitive practice on Tuesday called on the European Commission to reject them and to consider regulating Internet search.

A zoo and aquarium complex in the US is claiming big data analytics have helped increase ticket sales by 700 per cent and will provide a 25 per cent boost to online sales this year.

In spite of assertions by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and others that the age of privacy is over, new research commissioned by civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch has revealed that over three quarters of consumers globally are concerned about their privacy online.

Barclays is to make customer data available for commercial purposes for the first time, and will begin tracking mobile devices in order to prevent fraud.

Upcoming integration points between Yammer and Microsoft products will include email interoperability, document collaboration and enterprise search, as Microsoft pursues its plan to make Yammer a common enterprise social collaboration layer across its business software.

Australia-based Greater Building Society has begun implementing SAS’s Campaign Management in a bid to improve and expand its customer marketing efforts.

The chief of marketing management consultancy, Trinity P3, claims Qantas’ decision to request Frequent Flyer customers for personal search data in reward for extra points is indicative of the lack of sufficient customer information being collected by brands.

The Association for Data-driven Marketing and Advertising (ADMA) is calling on the privacy commissioner to consider a new voluntary code for privacy data breaches and stop compulsory notifications being approved by the Australian senate.

The rise in social channel interaction has made it impossible for organisations to adequately gauge and respond to consumer sentiment around their products and services without some technology help.

Microsoft's push to make its Bing search engine more social will take it in a new direction--actually letting a select group of users curate results.

With the unemployment rate for tech workers below 4 per cent across the US, there's growing competition for IT talent. Lately, some of the demand for tech candidates is coming from outside the IT department. Who's behind it? Marketing.

The analyst team at Gartner has compiled a new infographic based on a metro map to visualise the current digital marketing landscape for marketers.

After nearly a week of speculation, Facebook announced today that Instagram, its popular photo-sharing service, now supports video.

Australian organisations are increasingly turning to social networking for collaboration and plan to allocate 11 per cent of IT budgets to social networking in the next year, a new report has found.

The freewheeling flow of information on public social media sites may cause many people in conservative, highly regulated industries such as financial services to shudder. But one Canadian firm has taken the plunge, believing its employees can use social tools in a safe and ultimately profitable way.