Sunday December 22, 2024

Komprise Raises $6M To Help Companies Rein In Sprawling Data

 Storing loads of data is costly, especially if companies can’t figure out the most best ways to manage all that information. Komprise wants to make big data less overwhelming so its clients don’t have to constantly buy more storage. Read More Tweet This Post

LaunchDarkly, A Startup That Helps Companies Soft-Launch Features, Raises $2.6M

 Whenever many large technology have a new feature they want to test, they roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. That those companies get feedback on the feature and iron out any bugs, and also roll back the changes quickly if anything is wrong or if the users don’t like […]

Our Four Favorite Companies At The 500 Startups Batch 12 Demo Day

 Thirty companies pitched their products and business to investors in the press today, and they all had impressive stats for revenue, addressable markets, and growth. Still, some startups just hit the right buttons with their pitches and got gears turning in our heads. Read More Tweet This Post

YC-Backed TeamNote Provides Enterprise Communications For Companies With People Out In The Field

 Y Combinator-backed TeamNote is building an enterprise communication app that isn’t so much focused on the team, but on helping home base get important information to and from workers in the field. Read More Tweet This Post

Two Semiconductor Companies You Haven’t Heard Of Are Merging In A $40B Deal

 What is worth $40 billion, and isn’t Uber? The union of NXP Semiconductors, and Freescale Semiconductor. The two companies announced a “definitive agreement” today that will see Freescale shareholders pick up 0.3521 NXP shares and $6.26 in cash for each of their current shares. Freescale is known for its work in embedded chips, its website […]

Many companies lack basic security protocols, such as two-factor authentication

Companies are increasingly reliant on third-parties to notify them that their security has been compromised. Companies are continuing to find cyber attackers sooner. In the latest annual cyber-threat report the average time a company takes to detect a data breach fell to 205 days in 2014, down from an estimated 229 in 2013 and 243 […]

WebData Solutions Raises $4.5M To Let E-Commerce Companies Monitor Competitors

 Leipzig, Germany-based WebData Solutions is another startup playing in the retail intelligence space. The company, founded in 2012 as a spin-off from a Leipzig University research project, provides a Big Data-based service, called Blackbee, that crawls the web in real-time to enable retailers and manufacturers to keep a better tab on competitors, and take action […]

Stanford Dropouts’ “Argo” Raises $1.5M From Accel To Stitch Together Companies’ Small Data

 How do sales performance and social media campaigns influence each other? Most companies don’t know because this data is siloed in different departments. While plenty of startups try to make sense of enterprise “big data” — enormous primary data sets like Facebook’s archive of posts or Netflix’s recommendation insights, a startup called Argo wants to […]

Deep Identity Raises $470,000 To Help Companies Manage Access On Their Networks

 Deep Identity, a Singapore-based startup that helps companies manage access to their internal networks and services, has raised US$470,000 (SG$589,000) to expand its services into the cloud and open a presence in Europe. Read More Tweet This Post

HP To Become Two Companies As Consumer PC And Printer Business Splits From Corporate Services

 HP will indeed split itself into two companies, with its corporate hardware and services division becoming Hewlett-Packard Enterprise under CEO Meg Whitman, and HP Inc. becoming the PC and printing brand, with new initiatives like 3D printing spinning up, under Dion Weisler (Whitman remains as Chairman of the board for the consumer company, too). The […]