Amazon needs data lakes to hold all its big data, reports Silcon Angle. 

Back when Jeff Bezos filled orders in his garage and drove packages to the post office himself, crunching the numbers on costs, tracking inventory and forecasting future demand was relatively simple.

Google’s cloud gaming system needs big amounts of big data, reports Tech Republic

Dan Patterson, CNET and CBS News Senior Producer, spoke with Majd Bakar, VP of Engineering with Google Stadia, about how the company encodes and decodes data in real time. Stadia, which was publicly released on November 19, 2019, is Google's cloud gaming service. 

Big data can be used to stop human trafficking, reports CNN. 

Mass adoption and availability of new technologies such as social media, e-payments and messaging apps have enhanced our lives in many ways, bridging distances and enabling us to connect and communicate conveniently and seamlessly.