Employee Spotlight – Sagar
Exposing the wizards behind PromptCloud Team PromptCloud would be incomplete without the unique talents and a helpful nature that Sagar Sanghvi is gifted with. His calm personality and ready to help attitude sure compliments his job as the assistant manager of sales. He actually has a theory about onions making people aggressive and avoids them like […]
Read MoreWeb scraping myths debunked
Web scraping and big data are proving to be the essential catalyst in the success of businesses across industries these days. Guess the competitive intelligence and business insights derived from scraped data is too good to be ignored. Considering the massive data volume available today, there is no question of aggregating this data without the […]
Read MoreThe Negative Effects of Pokemon
One fine morning, you wake up and find the whole world going bonkers about this new mobile game. And before you could google what it’s all about, you see your friends showing off the Pokemon they caught from their living room or the nearby bush on social media. This is how Pokemon Go struck most […]
Read MoreData Extraction Journey: Common Bottlenecks to Overcome
There is no more ignoring big data and the business revolution that is about to come with the widespread implementation of it. Not unless you want to get eliminated from the market real soon. In this scenario where companies are aggressively looking to acquire insightful Data Extraction Journey from the web, many end up deciding […]
Read MoreHow Social media Scraping can be used to Improve User Experience
The rise of social media networks all over the world has been phenomenal. Its influence is evident in every sphere of our lives – both personally as well as professionally. Over the last few years, social media has enhanced its positioning in the market beyond a traditional communication and ‘keeping in touch’ platform. Rather, it […]
Read MoreWhat Experts didn’t tell you about HTML Scraping?
How many of us have done this – We were browsing the web and liked some information presented on a webpage. The immediate next step we did, was to copy the portion of the text we liked and paste it locally to a document editor like Notepad or Word, for storage or future use. If […]
Read MoreHow to find Reliable Sources for Web Scraping
Web scraping is undoubtedly the best way to gain business intelligence and insights on your target market. Many companies have substantially improved their overall performance from making data-backed decisions. While all is good with big data and the valuable insights it can give you, it all depends on the quality of data that you acquire […]
Read MoreThe Real Reason Behind Microsoft’s Acquisition of LinkedIn
Microsoft recently acquired LinkedIn for a whopping 26.2 billion dollars. This might be the company’s largest purchase ever after the acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone division in 2014 for $9.4 billion. While the deal might sound ridiculously expensive, it is not without solid and tempting reasons. We believe LinkedIn being a goldmine of data related to […]
Read MoreAre You Ready to Acquire Data? A Reality Check
Undoubtedly, “big data” is the in-thing and is growing at a tremendous rate. With data acquisition companies in the market, it is not all that difficult or expensive to collect data from multiple sources on the web. We strongly believe that every company which has anything to remotely do with the Internet (selling their products, […]
Read MoreResque: The Responsible Job Scheduler Behind PromptCloud’s Stack
Resque is a lightweight, fast, and a very powerful message queuing system used to run Ruby jobs in the background, asynchronously. The background jobs could be of any Ruby class, which responds to perform method of Resque. In a high end tech stack specifically catering web scraping, Resque does a great job in scheduling the […]
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