Santa Cruz, CA-based Looker Data Sciences has appointed Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph as a Board member. The firm has also hired former Greenplum/EMC exec Frank Bien as President. More

Pharma data giant IMS Health has announced the acquisition of US marketing technology provider 360 Vantage, with an eye to extending its commercial Software-as-a-Service offer for life sciences and healthcare clients. More

US-based research technology firm Decipher has appointed Jeffrey Bergman for the newly created role of Chief Financial Officer, based in the firm’s Fresno headquarters, while Jonathan Tice joins as SVP of Client Development in New York. More

US business intelligence and analytics firm Pentaho has acquired Portugal-based user experience (UX) and dashboard specialist Webdetails, enabling it to offer richer data-driven visualization tools to its clients. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. More

In Canada, research software firm Voxco has spun off its social media monitoring and analytics arm Acuity4 Social as a separate company, and renamed it Semeon Analytics. More

Sydney, Aus-based Q Research Software is to open an office in New York later this month, and has appointed former Illuminas SRE Steven Kawalek to lead it. More

Global research and analytics outsourcing firm Cross-Tab says it is planning to recruit a further 1400 staff in India, adding to its existing 600-strong headcount based in Bangalore and Mumbai. The company has also launched a new research platform called ctOS. More

...as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope *. Wise words, or at least a good starting point for a feature on threats and opportunities for the research profession, overwhelmed as we sometimes are by hype and alarmism. This is the last of our seven features celebrating job ad no.100,000. More

Australian-based MR software firm Numbers has released the latest version of its Q analysis software product, boasting online dashboards, new analyses including TURF, 3-D and 4-D tables and new mapping algorithms. More

Is it possible to talk about the mass of new skills and techniques bombarding the profession without feeling depressed about the traditional skills of the market researcher? Most definitely, says MrWeb co-founder Nick Thomas, continuing our celebration of 100,000 MR job ads. More

US-based Travelport, which provides transaction processing services to the travel sector, has launched an online business intelligence tool called Agentivity, which offers insights into client behaviour and data on traveller booking patterns. More

Social media analytics specialist Simply Measured has raised $8m in a Series B round of funding, which it will use to hire additional staff and invest in new products and technology. Separately, the firm has introduced new reporting capabilities for Google Analytics. More

US-based research software provider Revelation has appointed Todd McLean as Chief Operating Officer, to work alongside CEO Steve August on the firm’s planning and expansion initiatives. More

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