Obama appoints Indian-American DJ Patil as first US chief data scientist

On Wednesday, the White House named Dhanurjay ‘DJ’ Patil, 45, its first chief data scientist and deputy chief technology officer for data policy. Or simply, its chief data scientist.......

Multi-million dollar pay package to Zynga's new CEO

Don Mattrick, the head of Microsoft's Xbox business who will replace Zynga founder Mark Pincus as chief executive next week, will get a hefty, largely stock-based compensation package of about $50......