The UK’s Ometria is another startup that wants to help online retailers make better use of data, and, in turn, compete harder with larger, more data-driven players in the market. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on March 26th, 2014 by admin
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Over the past few weeks, IBM India has fired at least half a dozen top- to mid-level executives, as well as several others accused of fraud. The fraud led to a portion of the over $2 billion outsourcing contract, with Bharti Airtel being subcontracted to a company founded by former IBM-ers. The original contract signed was […]
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When President Barack Obama signed the Open Data Executive Order last May, many IT leaders applauded the White House’s decision to release treasure troves of public data as part of an important government initiative for greater transparency. However, what many didn’t bargain for was the state in which they’d find these once-buried data sets. “A […]
Posted on March 25th, 2014 by admin
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Box CEO Aaron Levie is credited with bringing sexy back to enterprise startups, but the big suprise in Box’s S-1 IPO document filed today is that Levie only owns 4.1% of the company. Meanwhile, investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson owns 25.5%. The numbers reveal Levie had to sell off much his startup to raise the $414 […]
Posted on March 25th, 2014 by admin
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Actifio, a data visualization management company that is preparing for an IPO, announced today that it has raised $100 million led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from previous investors Greylock IL, Advanced Technology Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Technology Crossover Ventures. This latest round brings Actifio’s total funding to about $207 million and puts its […]
Posted on March 24th, 2014 by admin
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Pivotal, an EMC/VMware spin-off that has big plans to deliver big data analytics through platform as a service, has whisked the Tweet This Post
Posted on March 24th, 2014 by admin
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It’s been an active week in the world of education software, with this weekend bringing news of the second big-ticket acquisition of a veteran EdTech company in as many days. Last week, Renaissance Learning, the 29-year-old, Google Capital-backed analytics and assessment giant, was acquired by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for a hefty $1.1 […]
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Fleep is adding Android, Mac and Windows to the list of supported platforms for its team-messaging app. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on March 23rd, 2014 by admin
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Cloudera today announced that it has secured $160 million in new financing to advance its distribution of the open source Hadoop big data platform. The move brings the company’s total funding up to $300 million and reflects how bullish investors are on the Hadoop platform being a major tool for companies to handle their data […]
Posted on March 23rd, 2014 by admin
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Meet Hublo, a recently launched analytics service that is easier to use than your average analytics tool. It works a lot like Mixpanel, KISSmetrics and others, but you don’t have to write a single line of code to make it work. “Hublo is the Mailchimp of analytics,” co-founder and CEO Cyril Gantzer told me. “We […]
Posted on March 23rd, 2014 by admin
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