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 […]
Posted on October 6th, 2013 by admin
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15Five, a startup backed by the likes of 500 Startups and Yammer’s David Sacks that provides a platform to help the working world communicate better with its managers, has had a dose of its own medicine. Taking feedback collected from its users since its exit from beta in August 2012, the company is today rolling […]
Posted on September 20th, 2013 by admin
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Zula, a startup from Jeff Pulver, a co-founder of VoIP success story Vonage, and serial entrepreneur Jacob Ner-David, is hoping to make your life a little less reliant on your inbox. The app combines elements of enterprise collaboration and communication tools, as well as mobile messaging giants like WhatsApp, for a tool that targets enterprise […]
Posted on September 14th, 2013 by admin
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After participating in a panel discussion at TechCrunch Disrupt SF about the enterprise market, Box CEO Aaron Levie said to me in an interview that the industry needs an innovative and more prosperous Microsoft. However, while he writes passionately about Microsoft and its direction, he laughed at the idea of replacing Steve Ballmer. Levie wrote […]
Posted on September 12th, 2013 by admin
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Over the last few years, Startup Land has played home to the dramatic re-emergence of a tried-and-true, familiar model: Subscription commerce. The rise of smartphones, tablets, “The Cloud,” Big Data and the steady maturation of digital marketplaces and distribution channels has fundamentally changed the way we shop, socialize and do business. As a result, businesses […]
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RealScout, a new real estate technology company based in Sunnyvale, announced today that it has raised $1.1 million in seed financing from DCM’s mobile‐focused A‐Fund, as well as Formation 8 and angel investors like long-time realtor, Ken DeLeon. With its new funding, RealScout wants to continue expanding its listings search engine, which the team designed […]
Posted on August 23rd, 2013 by admin
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Two pieces of big news today for online real-estate juggernaut Zillow. The company is announcing another acquisition, New York listings site StreetEasy, for $50 million in cash. And it has also applied for a follow-on offering of another 2.5 million shares of Class A common stock, equivalent to around $228 million based on Friday’s closing […]
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August 15, 2013 06:00 PDT | 09:00 EDT | 13:00 UTC **Sponsored by Citrix** Not a TechBrief subscriber? Sign up for a free subscription. Tweet This Post
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Google has added new load balancing to Google Compute Engine, giving Google App Engine further scale-out capabilities. Google has also added new Ruby support for Datastore and improved PHP runtime. The new load balancing feature allows developers to route traffic across a collection of servers, do health checks, automatically handle spikes in data loads and […]
Posted on August 10th, 2013 by admin
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