Google is adding another product in its range of big data services on the Google Cloud Platform today. The new Google Cloud Dataproc service sits between managing the Spark data processing engine or Hadoop framework directly on virtual machines and a fully managed service like Cloud Dataflow, which lets you orchestrate your data pipelines on […]
Posted on September 24th, 2015 by admin
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Qualtrics spent most of its life bootstrapped and trying to be profitable. Then it raised $220 million — and Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith was worried he’d have to move to Silicon Valley. But the company has become a success story coming out of Utah, and the company’s focus on profitability and being a sustainable business […]
Posted on September 23rd, 2015 by admin
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For smaller companies, setting up a 401(k) can be one of the most difficult exercises — but it’s still one of the most important ones. That’s why Money Intel is trying to simplify that process and make it easy to set up one in a few minutes. For small businesses, setting up a 401(k) is […]
Posted on September 23rd, 2015 by admin
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Not every employee, especially those at smaller businesses, can get a corporate credit card — but they still need to pay company-related expenses. That’s where Emburse, a startup that issues prepaid cards quickly to employees, is hoping to help. Emburse works with a card-issuer and a bank to help companies issue company cards with specific […]
Posted on September 23rd, 2015 by admin
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CoverHound, a site that lets people search for, compare and buy auto and property insurance both through its own site and Google’s insurance search, is today announcing that it has raised a further $33.3 million in funding as it adds one more large and strategic investor to its list of backers. Insurance giant ACE Group is […]
Posted on September 22nd, 2015 by admin
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There is little doubt that IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system is an incredible piece of technology, It’s capable of searching across vast repositories of unstructured digital data and returning answers remarkably quickly. But it won’t be replacing humans anytime soon, Dr. John Kelly who leads the Watson team at IBM told TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm today at… Read More […]
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How much gluten, genetically modified organisms and other allergens are in that cereal you ate this morning? Not many people know what is in their food right now, but genomic data startup Clear Labs hopes to index all the packaged fare in the world so we do. The startup uses technology related to sequencing human genomes in […]
Posted on September 20th, 2015 by admin
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When you think of Salesforce.com, you probably don’t think about the burgeoning Internet of Things, but Salesforce wants to help customers make sense of all of the data coming from the growing number of connected devices — often referred to as the Internet of Things. The company is announcing its brand new Salesforce Internet of Things Cloud at […]
Posted on September 20th, 2015 by admin
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Salesforce.com and Microsoft announced today that the companies would be building upon previous integrations and further strengthening their partnership. They made the announcement this afternoon in San Francisco at Dreamforce, Salesforce’s customer extravaganza. The two companies introduced a broad new set of integrations to help Microsoft products work hand-in-glove with… Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on September 19th, 2015 by admin
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DWNLD, the publishing platform that takes any website and seamlessly turns it into an app, has today announced the close of a $12 million Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners. The platform, which was created by cofounder and CEO Alexandra Keating and cofounder Fritz Lanman, allows any web publisher to easily transfer all […]
Posted on September 19th, 2015 by admin
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