Prior Knowledge debuted Veritable, a predictive database for application developers at Disrupt San Francisco 2012 today. Based upon work first done at MIT, the service is offered through the company’s Veritable API, which the company says is designed to make applications smarter. The technology uses state of the art machine learning behind the scenes to […]
Posted on September 12th, 2012 by admin
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Inktank has raised $1 million in the form of a convertible note from Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth to further services play for Ceph — an open source, next-generation, distributed storage technology. Inktank is led by DreamHost Co-Founder Sage Weil, who formed the company after developing Ceph over the past several years, starting with his work […]
Posted on September 11th, 2012 by admin
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FoundationDB, here at Disrupt San Francisco 2012, is a modern database with features that have been the foundation for databases since the 1970s. The result, they say, is an infinitely scalable database that goes beyond what most NoSQL databases offer. By adopting the inherent strengths of NoSQL and integrating what they call “YesACID,” FoundationDB executives […]
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FuzeBox is trying to entice startups to use its video conferencing and online meeting tools with its new FuzeFund, which offers FuzeBox Pro accounts at an appealing price point — free. CEO Jeff Cavins says the current FuzeBox customer base includes both large enterprises and startups, but with the FuzeFund, he’s trying to expand the […]
Posted on September 10th, 2012 by admin
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Google now lets companies rent Chromebooks for $30 per month and Chromeboxes for $25 per month. There are no long-term contracts to sign and rentals are always month-to-month (with the monthly price dropping steadily after the first twelve months). To offer this service, Google has partnered with CIT, a company that provides financing and leasing […]
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To date, Facebook has focused the majority of its revenue efforts on ads, and, to a lesser extent, payment services around apps that run on its social platform. But Facebook commerce, where users buy physical or other good not connected to apps, is one area where Facebook has not done much– yet. In the meantime […]
Posted on September 9th, 2012 by admin
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TechCrunch first reported earlier today that enterprise social media platform HootSuite is buying another social media platform, Seesmic. That fact has now been confirmed by HootSuite itself. Ryan Holmes, the CEO, has given us some more color on the deal, and we’ve found out some other details as well along the way. The companies are not […]
Posted on September 9th, 2012 by admin
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Alcatel-Lucent is open-sourcing a new API software engine and management platform called apiGrove that is meant to serve as a services layer for enterprises and large service providers. Alcatel-Lucent’s goal is to make apiGrove a core layer in a cloud infrastructure so customers may either use it to connect to apps or infrastructure environments. The apiGrove installation […]
Posted on September 8th, 2012 by admin
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As a small startup, the mobile payment space shouldn’t be appealing. Every carrier and credit card company seems to have its own system, the space is fragmented, crowded and no standard for payment mechanisms has emerged. (QR codes, really?) To compete, startups need lots of capital, and then they need hardware. Which is why you […]
Posted on September 8th, 2012 by admin
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Asana, the high-profile productivity startup that’s trying to redesign the workplace around tasks (instead of email), has a new iOS app out. It’s worth a closer look, even if you really love email. The biggest improvement today is a native task creation and editing interface, that includes features you’ll find on the web version: adding […]
Posted on September 7th, 2012 by admin
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