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16 May, 2013

Business Intelligence Startup RJMetrics Raises $6.25M

In the big new world of business intelligence,RJMetrics has found a market helping e-commerce companies easily analyze operations data and make smarter decisions as a result. Big startups have signed on, including Fab, Bonobos, Threadless and thousands of smaller businesses. Today, the momentum has landed the Philadelphia enterprise…

Publication: TechCrunch

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15 May, 2013

Cloud-Based Analytics Market To Top $16.52B By 2018

Analytics are top of mind these days, and they have become a priority for both IT and business professionals. As data continues to proliferate and fill the world’s storage, whether on-premise or cloud, businesses need a way to track and analyze that data. Increasingly, they’re looking to…

Publication: Talkin' Cloud

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15 May, 2013

McLaren CIO: How We’re Working With Big Data

ORLANDO—Stuart Birrell, chief information officer of Britain’s McLaren Group, stopped by SAP’s annual Sapphire Now conference this afternoon to explain how his company was working with big data.

The company—known for its wildly successful Formula One racing team as well as the million-dollar consumer cars…

Publication: ZDNet

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14 May, 2013

Database-As-A-Service Cloudant Nabs $12M From Devonshire, Rackspace, & More

Hot database-as-a-service startup Cloudant has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today.

Boston-based Cloudant was initially founded in Cambridge, Mas. in 2008 by three MIT physicists. The team struggled to move around multi-petabyte data sets and analyze those data…

Publication: VentureBeat

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14 May, 2013

Twitter Acquires Big Data Visualization Startup Lucky Sort

Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based startup behind a visualization and navigation engine called TopicWatch that helped to discover patterns in live data streams, has been acquired by Twitter…

Publication: TechCrunch

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13 May, 2013

GM To Spend $100 Million To Build Michigan Data Center

General Motors Co. (GM) said it will spend $100 million to build a data center in Michigan as part of its overhaul of information technology operations

The new facility in Milford, Michigan, northwest of GM’s Detroit headquarters, follows a $130 million facility in Warren, another Detroit suburb, that opened…

Publication: Bloomberg

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13 May, 2013

Bloomberg Chief Apologizes For Data Snooping

The editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News said Monday that reporters working for the company’s news division should never have been allowed to access otherwise restricted client data…

Publication: CNN Money

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13 May, 2013

Big Data Hits The Big Time: Datameer Triples Revenues In A Year

Lately, a number of enterprising startups that sell big data analysis tools to large companies are seeing explosive revenue growth — the latest sign the big data gold rush is fully on.

One of them is Datameer.

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Publication: VentureBeat

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13 May, 2013

Boxfish Lands On Android, Has Big Plans For Real-time TV Data

Boxfish’s new Android app lets you search in real-time for topics on TV. The data used to power the app could one day also make your DVR smarter…

Publication: GigaOm

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