Amazon’s Entry into the Middle East with Souq
Earlier this year, the logistics powerhouse disguised as retail giant—Amazon.com entered the Middle East by acquiring Dubai-based online retailer Souq.com, confirming that e-commerce in this region is poised to take off. At that time Emaar Malls PJSC, which runs the world’s biggest shopping center was also in the race with Amazon to acquire Souq and […]
Read MoreIs AI Really a Threat to Humanity? – PromptCloud
With the tremendous advancements in computer hardware and surplus availability of big data, artificial intelligence is rapidly finding its way into our everyday lives from the world of science fiction. While artificial intelligence is not a new topic at all and the first ever AI program – Logic theorist was created as early as in […]
Read MoreLegality of Extracting User-Generated Content | PromptCloud
As a web data solutions company, we often encounter questions about the legality of web scraping. Before we go into answering that question, let’s first understand the term “web scraping”. Simply put, it is a part of web crawling (finding the web pages and downloading them) that involves data extraction from web pages to gather […]
Read MoreWeb Scraping Challenges and Rules
Web data is known to provide companies with exceptional insights into the market trends, customer preferences and competitors’ activities. Hence, it is no more just another option to gather data, rather an essential tactic for the survival of any business that has its roots in the web or wants to grow by augmenting limited internal […]
Read MoreHow to Extract Data from a Website using CrawlBoard – PromptCloud
If you’re looking to extract data from a website, you’ll see that the web is filled with tutorials on how to do this using a DIY tool or by writing a web crawler program yourself. These options might suit the needs of some tech savvy users who are either looking to learn web scraping or […]
Read MoreHow Web Scraping Complements the Skills of Data Scientists
About Skills of Data Scientists More and more information is becoming available on the web with each passing second, but most of this data is only accessible using a web browser. Imagine the potential applications of all this data if it were structured and in a ready-to-analyze form. Businesses could get their hands on compelling […]
Read MoreWhat are The Best Programming Languages for Web Scraping?
Looking to extract external data from the web and are in search of the best ways to do it? Web crawling and scraping could be the expedition as we’re here to help. But first, let’s find the best programming languages for web scraping. Why? Since it doesn’t make sense to go with a tech stack […]
Read MoreWhat Happens in Between Data Extraction and Visualization
Big data has shown phenomenal growth over the past decade and it’s widespread application by businesses as a growth catalyst continues to deliver positive results. The scale of data is massive and the volume, velocity and variety of data calls for more efficient processing to make it machine-ready. Although there are a multitude of ways […]
Read MoreAcquiring Data Is Not A One-Time Thing – PromptCloud
The amount of data available to businesses is growing by leaps and bounds. Data is being generated by any and every activity on the internet such as E-commerce orders, sports scores, music being played, product reviews, social media activities and so on. All this data getting accumulated on the web hold immense value to the […]
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