ENGINE, a global advertising, technology, and data company, has announced its new corporate brand name, Big Village (www.big-village.com) in the US, Europe, and Australia.

UK-based text analysis company’s high growth rate earned a top ranking at the awards program, which recognizes companies located in the North of England and Scotland

Savanta has announced it is expanding its global footprint and launching its full range of data, research services, technology, and products in mainland Europe.

InnovateMR has announced the hiring of three industry veterans to its US team: Chris Kosar, Veeraj Keshwala, and Kristen Vance. Chris and Veeraj will support the team’s client development initiatives following investment from CIVC Partners, and Kristen advances the team’s programming and hosting offerings.

CIRQ (the Certification Institute for Research Quality), an International Standards Organization (ISO) audit and certification body that is a subsidiary of the Insights Association, has announced a new training program for Quality Managers and other individuals responsible for their company’s ISO audit preparation and management.

GutCheck’s Interactive Concept Developer uses a hybrid approach combining choice-based and adaptive methodologies, enabled by machine learning, to simulate real world decision making.

RealityMine has announced the addition of Embedded Browsing to its reporting. Clients can now measure the web browsing that users perform within social media apps.

Schlesinger Group Acquires Opinion Capital, a Canadian-based programmatic sample provider.

In anticipation of continued growth, Full Circle Research welcomed Jamie Stehlin as its newest Business Unit Leader. Ms. Stehlin brings almost 20 years’ experience in superior customer service and online sample operations management to Full Circle, the industry leader in data quality.

A team of four Computer Science majors from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has won GfK’s annual NextGen Data Science Hackathon Competition, capturing a $5,000 grand prize. The NJIT group proposed data-driven systems for making FMCG ecommerce experiences more personalized.