Teens who want to send messages that disappear quickly have Snapchat. Now, corporations that want sensitive emails to vanish have a number of services at their disposal too. But some say there’s little precedent for whether or not this new tool conflicts with a company’s requirements to archive old emails.

The award recognizes high-growth entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. These semi-finalists were selected from 118 nominations by a panel of independent judges.

It’s not your fault if it feels like Big Data is everywhere you turn, but you don’t know how to use it. In fact, speaking today at the Structure Data conference in New York’s Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers, Jan Puzicha, the co-founder of Big Data company Recommind said the interface itself might be to blame.

A House oversight panel’s recent opening of what could be the most comprehensive bipartisan congressional review in three decades of executive branch compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has reinvigorated an industry discussion about the challenges associated with FOIA compliance, particularly FOIA backlogs.

I recently spoke with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind, a San Francisco-based unstructured information management and analysis company, seeking a few points of advice about where to use machine learning most effectively.

While digging for info for our 2013 Keating Report on government budgets and spending, we reached out to executives such as Craig Carpenter, who is vice president of marketing and business development at San Francisco-based Recommind, for his views.