Guesswork, a new machine learning tool built on top of the Google Prediction API, launched a new service today with a twist. Instead of trying to be all things to all businesses, it’s focusing on customer information. CEO and company co-founder Mani Doraisamy says Guesswork uses a template-driven approach so customers can do things like customize a newsletter […]
Posted on August 9th, 2014 by admin
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Google Brain, an artificial intelligence and machine learning project at Google, has been used to power services like Android’s speech recognition system and photo search on Google+. Now, two of the most longstanding machine learning engineers, one of whom worked on Google Brain, have left the search giant to start a new company. The idea: to build machine learning, […]
Posted on July 29th, 2014 by admin
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Rackspace — the publicly-listed enterprise cloud services company that competes against the likes of Amazon’s AWS, Microsoft and Google — has been in the spotlight after announcing in May that it has hired bankers to help consider offers to parter with or be acquired by another company. However, it could choose a third option: taking itself private. Following the […]
Posted on July 5th, 2014 by admin
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Pie is the latest contender to launch in the enterprise collaboration space. It competes with services like Slack, which recently raised an impressive $42.75 million, as well as a host of other companies such as Convo, Hipchat, Hall, and CoTap. Co-founder Pieter Walraven says Pie “takes the noise out of work chat” by allowing users […]
Posted on June 15th, 2014 by admin
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Beatswitch has closed a €250,000 seed round from Strike4 to further develop its cloud-based platform that lets artists, booking agencies and festival organizers collaborate more efficiently, and to eventually launch across Europe. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on May 5th, 2014 by admin
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There is a scramble to find the right big data talent, especially for short-term data projects currently being outsourced to big consulting companies such as Accenture, Deloitte apart from several niche suppliers. According to this McKinsey analysis, the U.S. alone faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical expertise and 1.5 million managers and […]
Posted on April 1st, 2014 by admin
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Last year, voice technology giant Nuance quietly acquired VirtuOz, a developer of virtual assistants for online sales, marketing and support — a “Siri for the enterprise” that counted with the likes of PayPal and AT&T as customers. Now, Alexandre Lebrun, the founder and CEO of VirtuOz, has taken a dive back into the startup world […]
Posted on March 17th, 2014 by admin
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Big Blue has announced a new contest to get mobile developers — and most everyone else who can use an API — serious about Watson, its cognitive computing platform. Tweet This Post
Posted on February 27th, 2014 by admin
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There is Salesforce.com for sales professionals, numerous off-the-shelf packages for finance and HR professionals and thousands of apps for several other enterprise utilities. But marketeers still don’t have a single dashboard to monitor their spend and its impact across different campaigns and functions. And while there are several marketing tools and dashboards that offer custom […]
Posted on February 20th, 2014 by admin
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Intel is continuing to build out its array of software tools for the Hadoop open-source big data processing framework, with an emphasis on the security and reliability features demanded by large enterprises. A Data Platform tools suite will become available in the next quarter as a free-of-charge but self-supported Enterprise Edition, as well as a […]
Posted on February 14th, 2014 by admin
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