ClearStory Data has launched a data analytics service that the company says is one of the first to offer a core back-end technology that includes rich visuals and sharing capabilities. On the back-end, ClearStory has a platform for integrating a company’s internal and external data using an in-memory database technology, said CEO Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan in a […]
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic Map Reduce platform with a new version of Hadoop and updated support for its data analytics ecosystem. Elastic Map Reduce is AWS platform for processing large amounts of data. But unlike many vendors, AWS offers a hosted service. The challenge for AWS is to keep Hadoop and […]
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The Hadoop programming framework may be synonymous with the “big data” movement but it’s not the only tool companies need to derive insights from massive stores of unstructured information, according to Facebook analytics chief Ken Rudin. Tweet This Post
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Intuit has acquired Level Up Analytics, a Mountain View-based consulting company that focuses on data science, big data and analytics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. All the employees from the Level Up Analytics team will join Intuit. In a statement, Intuit described the deal as an “acqui-hire,” its fifth this year. The company did not provide the […]
Posted on October 27th, 2013 by admin
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Data analytics startup ParStream has raised an $8 million Series B round led by Khosla Ventures. The round increases ParStream’s total funding to $13.6 million. The company raised $5.6 million last year in a round led by Khosla Ventures with Baker Capital, CrunchFund (which is owned by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington), Data Collective, Tola Capital and private individuals […]
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Following mounting pressure from data protection agencies (DPAs) in different European countries, Google has started offering so-called data processing agreements to websites using its Google Analytics suite in the European Union, Iceland, Norway or Switzerland. Up to now Google did not provide such contracts because it maintains that it does not process personal data. Since […]
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Last week, Numerify, announced it had raised $8 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. They also received funding from a number of prominent angel investors, including Frank Slootman, CEO of ServiceNow, Amit Singh, president of Google Enterprise and Deep Nishar, SVP of Products and User Experience at Linkedin. The company, […]
Posted on October 7th, 2013 by admin
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Let’s get it out of the way up front: You’re a fool if you don’t include Google Analytics in your toolkit as a way to track your website’s traffic. The advantages are almost too numerous to list. A de facto industry standard, its reports are often taken as gospel by advertisers. Tweet This Post
Posted on October 6th, 2013 by admin
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With an increasing number of commercial applications relying on its technology, natural language processing (NLP) has started to come into its own of late. After years of research and experimentation, it has emerged from geeky obscurity and into the limelight — thanks to Watson, Siri and Nuance’s Dragon, among others. Of course, every time Siri […]
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Agribusiness giant Monsanto is paying $930 million to acquire the Climate Corporation, maker of a software platform that crunches weather-related data in order to help farmers more effectively grow crops. “Everyone benefits when farmers are able to produce more with fewer resources,” Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant said in a statement released Wednesday. Tweet This Post
Posted on October 3rd, 2013 by admin
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