LinkedIn has officially asked the US Supreme Court to review the case it lost against hiQ Labs in the ongoing web-scraping dispute between the two companies.

Data providers specialising in ESG (environmental, social and governance) and transactional data proved most popular among attendees at the Neudata San Francisco Summit in February.

Point72 Asset Management’s head quant is set to retire by the end of this year, according to the firm.

Alpha Quantamental, an equity long/short fund that incorporates data-driven techniques into its stock-picking process, is considering an expansion into options trading at the behest of clients looking for higher risk investments.

Knoema, a data management platform, has acquired alternative data aggregator Adaptive Management.

Europe is moving ahead with plans to create a single market in data and establish policies to become a leader in business data collection and distribution, the European Commission announced Wednesday.

Online consumer insights provider Hitwise is ceasing operations after 20 years in business citing “events outside its control”, the company announced Tuesday.

Catalyst Funds, an alternatives investment firm, has launched a new machine learning-based fund that invests in futures contracts to gain exposure to 39 major global asset classes.

Rezatec, a geospatial data analytics firm, has raised GBP 5m from Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor, for expansion into key global markets.

Quantitative investment managers are investigating datasets that quantify environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, as well as those that show companies' customer acquisition efforts, according to analysis of recent activity on Neudata’s Scout platform.