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Zoomdata, a startup with software that visualizes a wide variety of data both historically and in real time, as well as generates reports, revealed a $17 million round of funding today. The money will go toward sales and marketing at a time when the company contends with several other big data analy
ShipHawk reported that it has raised $5M to fund an API that lets eCommerce platforms, marketplaces, online auctions and small businesses take unpacked, real-world items and convert them into a language that shipping companies understand. Not only does ShipHawk facilitate quotes, but it backs each o
Researchers have built a new system that protects internet users’ privacy while increasing the flexibility for web developers to build web applications that combine data from different web sites, dramatically improving the safety of surfing the web. The system called “Confinement with Or
Alteryx, a startup with software that lets everyone, even non-technical people, analyze corporate data, is announcing a $60 million funding round this morning. Growing into a bigger provider of such tooling is the whole point of today’s round. Insight Venture Partners is leading, while SAP Ventures
In July, eBay announced a partnership with noted auction house Sotheby’s to help bring its inventory of art, antiques and collectibles online via a new live auction format with real-time bidding. At the time, eBay said Sotheby’s was the “anchor tenant” to trial this new format on eBay.com. Today, th
Square has raised an additional $150 million in capital, valuing the six-year-old San Francisco payments company at $6 billion, reports The New York Times. Square, which was co-founded by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, has now raised roughly $500 million, giving it a hefty war chest to compete against a sma
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has already started making his mark at The Washington Post as the newspaper’s new owner. First, he tackled costs, by slashing employees’ retirement benefits, and now, he’s trying to drum up what others have found difficult in this digital age: Revenue. BusinessWeek’s Brad Stone h
Samsung continues to be on a roll where new smartphones are concerned, and their work in catering to the wide range of users out there in the market continues. In fact, while we have seen a fair bit of both the Samsung Galaxy Alpha A5 as well as the Galaxy Alpha A3 in terms of […]
Given China’s strict censorship, it was actually surprising that Instagram had been allowed to be used in the country for quite a while, despite the fact that its parent company Facebook had been banned. Well that was until recently where China decided to ban Instagram from mainland China following
Most of us probably know HP as a company that makes a variety of consumer electronic goods, such as desktop computers, laptops, tablets, printers, and at one point in time they even tried their hand at webOS smartphones. However according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, it seems that HP co
Twitter is opening up its vault for researchers at MIT’s Media Lab, and it’s giving them $10 million to try and glean some insights from the deluge of tweets. The team of researchers, working under the title “Laboratory of Social Machines,” will have access to Twitter’s
Lenovo doesn’t want to miss out on the wearable device trend, it seems. A couple of months after filings hinted that a Smartband was in the works, the unannounced activity tracker has surfaced at the FCC. Between photos and a user manual, the approval leaves little to the imagination. The Blue
