Luminoso, a Cambridge, MA-based text analytics company announced $6.5M in Series A funding today, led by Acadia Woods with Digital Garage also participating. That brings their total funds raised to $8M. Luminoso was born out of research at the MIT Media Labs and spun off in 2010. After getting their seed funding in 2012, they […]
Posted on July 2nd, 2014 by admin
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Dropbox has made another acquisition: Predictive Edge, a startup that had built a way to personalise e-commerce offerings, along with dynamic pricing, for marketers to send out to users and run A/B tests around them. The service will be shut down, and the founders will be working on something different, as they note in an […]
Posted on July 2nd, 2014 by admin
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CoreOS, a Linux distribution optimized for very large server deployments, today announced that it has raised a $8 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with follow-on investments by Sequoia Capital and Fuel Capital. This comes after a previous investment from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital last year. Read More […]
Posted on July 1st, 2014 by admin
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Taking what many see as the next step in big data analysis, Google is previewing a service called Google Cloud Dataflow that analyzes live data, potentially giving users the ability to view trends and be alerted to events as they happen. “There’s an enormous amount of data being created, and so you need a way […]
Posted on June 27th, 2014 by admin
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Seattle-based ExtraHop, a service that offers real-time analytics based on analyzing data right off the wire instead of using software that runs on the server, today announced that it has raised a $41 million Series C round led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). While TCV may not be a household name, the company has previously […]
Posted on June 7th, 2014 by admin
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Today is a big day for Microsoft. It’s making a large number of announcements around its developer tools at its enterprise-centric TechEd event in Houston today and in addition, it is also bringing a number of new features to its Azure cloud computing services. Among these are the general availability of Azure ExpressRoute for creating private […]
Posted on May 13th, 2014 by admin
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Electric Cloud, a company that offers continuous delivery products, services and support to businesses that want to adapt this software design practice, today announced that it has closed a $12 million Series E round with participation from Siemens’ Venture Capital, US Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, RRE Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners. The company previously disclosed […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2014 by admin
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Fanout, a company that has been in private beta since its inception in 2011, will be available to the general public this week. According to company founder Jason Karneges, Fanout provides real-time data push, which ensures content is delivered to a device without delay or requiring a refresh. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on April 13th, 2014 by admin
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Amazon Web Services now offers a hosted version of the R programming language, providing an easy way for individuals and organizations to start and test their big-data-styled analysis projects. The cloud service is offering a copy of Revolution R Enterprise 7 on the AWS Marketplace, an online store for different packages that can be run […]
Posted on February 17th, 2014 by admin
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Kinvey, the enterprise-centric backend as a service (BaaS) platform for mobile apps, is launching a new feature today that will allow its customers to run their apps in a dedicated private cloud or on-premise instead of on Kinvey’s regular multi-tenant platform. While BaaS platforms like Parse or StackMob (which is about to shut down after its […]
Posted on February 14th, 2014 by admin
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