SoundCommerce, a platform that uses big data to help small companies compete with Amazon, has raised another round of funding, reports Venture Beat. 

SoundCommerce, a platform that unifies retailers’ data from across multiple systems, has raised $15 million in a series A round of funding led by Emergence Capital.

According to Phys.Org, big data will play a role in analyzing large scale cosmic structures. 

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has led an international team which has developed an algorithm called COSMIC BIRTH to analyze large scale cosmic structures. 

How Hadoop fell from favor in the big data community, reports Analytics Insight

Hadoop is one of the most popular open-source cloud platforms from Apache, used in the big data community for data processing activities.