Web scraping can be an invaluable skill to possess when working on data-related projects because many interesting analytics projects often start not with over-explored internal data, but with the ...

We live in a world—and deal with markets—increasingly driven by data. Consumers and companies throughout the globe generate massive amounts of data at any given moment. Internet searches, mobile phone ...

Recent lawsuits by Dow Jones, the New York Post, the New York Times and Amazon against AI search engine Perplexity ...

With the demand for data increasing across businesses of all sizes, web scraping has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry. Once confined to larger enterprises (with the budgets to match), web ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini are at the forefront of the AI ...

In 2008, the Austin-based data startup Infochimps released a scrape of Twitter data that was later taken down at the request of the microblogging site because of user privacy concerns. Infochimps has ...

A major investment by prominent VCs in a Web-based “data extraction” firm shows there may truly be just one way to get at some of the world’s most critical data. The screen scraper has a history as ...

There has been an increased need for data to train large language models like ChatGPT. Reddit tried to address the new value for data by massively increasing charges for data via its APIs. Reddit also ...

Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists, Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte write: Big Data is a complex issue—different firms and individuals have different access to different sources of data, and ...