French startup Algolia raised $1.2 million as an extension of the company’s existing seed round to turbocharge your website’s search engine. It brings the total funding of the startup to $2.8 million. The round extension was led by Storm Ventures, with angels coming from Box, Eventbrite, Google, Microsoft and Stripe. Chrisoph Janz of Point Nine […]
Posted on June 20th, 2014 by admin
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Just when you think you might have figured out what BlackBerry is up to (a strong push in enterprise services and emerging markets like the Internet of Things) they go and do something like the BlackBerry Passport. The device broke cover today (via MobileSyrup) during the Canadian smartphone maker’s earnings call, and it’s set to […]
Posted on June 19th, 2014 by admin
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Mining personal data to deliver targeted ads is the lifeblood of Google’s business — and of many other online firms. But what if that data dries up at the source? Google released an early version of a new tool recently that will provide full “end-to-end” encryption for email. It’s a super-strong cloaking technology that scrambles […]
Posted on June 19th, 2014 by admin
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ThoughtSpot, a startup that hopes to modernize the way companies do business intelligence, announced $30 million in Series B funding today led by Khosla Ventures with help from existing investor Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding brings its total to $40.7 million to date. As part of the deal, Keith Rabois, who is a partner at […]
Posted on June 19th, 2014 by admin
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Today Facebook announced new modularized top-of-rack networking switch technology and a new Linux OS to control these switches. The company will eventually share this technology as part of its Open Compute Project. Jay Parikh, Facebook’s VP of Infrastructure Engineering, made the announcement at GigaOm’s Structure Conference in an interview with Derrick Harris. Read More Tweet […]
Posted on June 18th, 2014 by admin
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Nestio has been serving the real estate community in New York since 2011, but is today marks the company’s biggest release yet, as real estate brokers are finally being invited to the platform. After pivoting from a consumer product to an enterprise platform, Nestio worked to bring landlords into the service to supply vacancy info […]
Posted on June 18th, 2014 by admin
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When two closely competing companies make purchases on the same day, it’s probably fair to say that it’s not a coincidence. Such was the case yesterday when Box and Dropbox purchased early stage startups only hours apart. In fact, the cloud startups with similar names have been on mini buying sprees of late, fighting to […]
Posted on June 17th, 2014 by admin
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Most every software and platform developer is hurrying to offer better ways to build machine learning and predictive analytics (no wonder those skills are
Posted on June 17th, 2014 by admin
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RapidMiner, a big data analytics startup, purchased former partner Radoop, giving it Hadoop processing and access to the Radoop team’s Hadoop expertise. They did not share the purchase price. RapidMiner enables customers to create a data-analytics workflow and grab data from a variety of sources without scripting using built-in connectors, then process that data to […]
Posted on June 17th, 2014 by admin
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This morning Box, a cloud-based file-management service, announced that it has acquired Streem, a Y Combinator-backed company that allows customers to “stream” files to their desktop environments. Box declined to share terms of the agreement, but did note in an email that it bought the company using a blend of cash and stock. The four […]
Posted on June 16th, 2014 by admin
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