Google acquires Kaggle in data science drive - Computer Business Review

The community is used by more than 800,000 data scientists. Google is set to acquire Kaggle, an Australia-based data science platform for running coding competition. The financial details about the acquisition have not been disclosed. Founded in 2010 by Anthony Goldbloom and Ben Hamner, Kaggle is a platform where data science and machine learning competitions are run. The platform is being used by more than 800,000 data scientists to explore, analyse and understand the latest updates in machine learning and data analytics.