Advertising analytics platform Metamarkets raises another $15M
Faster data, faster insights
Metamarkets, a San Francisco startup providing streaming analytics to advertisers, has raised a $15 million round of venture capital. Data Collective led…
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Ex-Facebookers at Interana raise $20M for mass-scale event data
Everyone can run like Facebook
Interana, a Menlo Park, California, analytics startup that officially launched in October has closed a $20 million Series B round. Index Ventures led the…
A startup wants to build a trading platform for sensor data
Someone has to try
A startup out of Las Vegas is trying to capitalize on a very difficult, and potentially very lucrative, opportunity within the internet of things. The…
Indonesia is mapping Jakarta floods in real time using Twitter
Taking advantage of Twitter
After initially mapping 8 million flood-related tweets throughout the region over the past couple years as part of a Twitter Data Grant, the…
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The team that created Kafka is leaving LinkedIn to build a company around it
A trio of LinkedIn engineers, led by Jay Kreps, is taking the Apache Kafka technology they helped create commercial. Their new company, called Confluent, wants to enable real-time data processing in all sorts of companies, and is backed by Benchmark, LinkedIn and Data Collective.
DataTorrent’s Hadoop stream-processing engine is now for sale
DataTorrent, a startup building a stream-processing engine for Hadoop that it claims can analyze more than 1 billion data events per second, announced…
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DataSift raises $42M. Maybe there’s something to this social data after all
Following on the heels of Apple buying Topsy, fellow Twitter-specialist DataSift has announced a $42 million round of venture capital financing.
On the path to personalization
http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/on-the-path-to-personalization/ This post from the New York Times‘ Open blog talks about the architecture and algorithms underpinning its content-personalization engine. Its experience…
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IBM acquires telco-data specialist The Now Factory
IBM is going to acquire a Dublin, Ireland-based company called The Now Factory, which specializes in providing customer and network analytics for…
How hidden data can become an investor’s gold mine
While tweets have pointed out news faster than news outlets, critical data doesn’t always cross the screens of Twitter users. Programs like Selerity can help investors and other power users find buried information.
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How California ISO uses Google Maps, big data to manage power
Talk about big data: The California Independent System Operator Corporation has installed an 80-foot by 6.5-foot screen in its control room to display real-time power-grid data from thousands of endpoints. Its system is powered by Space-Time Insight, whose software melds real-time geospatial data with unique visualizations.
