geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge

A mobile advertising company that tracked the locations of hundreds of millions of consumers without consent has agreed to pay $950,000 (£640,000) in civil penalties and implement a privacy program to settle charges that it violated federal law.

Crate Data is an open source massively scalable data store.

This page lists the values you can use to target ads at metropolitan regions in the United States. Metropolitan regions are identified by numeric code.

Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data. Hadoop implements MapReduce, using the Hadoop Distributed File System.