Advertising analytics platform Metamarkets raises another $15M
Metamarkets, a San Francisco startup providing streaming analytics to advertisers, has raised a $15 million round of venture capital. Data Collective led the round, which also included John Battelle...
View ArticleHortonworks did $12.7M in Q4, on its path to a billion, CEO says
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks announced its first quarterly earnings as a publicly held company Tuesday, claiming $12.7 million in fourth-quarter revenue and $46 million in revenue during fiscal year 2014....
View ArticleWhy you can’t program intelligent robots, but you can train them
If it feels like we're in the midst of robot renaissance right now, perhaps it's because we are. There is a new crop of robots under development that we'll soon be…
View ArticleGoogle, Stanford say big data is key to deep learning for drug discovery
A team of researchers from Stanford University and Google have released a paper highlighting a deep learning approach they say shows promise in the field of drug discovery. What they found,...
View ArticleCloudera CEO declares victory over big data competition
Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly doesn't often mince words when it comes to describing to his competition in the Hadoop space, or Cloudera's position among those other companies. In October 2013, Reilly told…
View ArticleIBM acquires deep learning startup AlchemyAPI
So much for AlchemyAPI CEO Elliot Turner's statement that his company is not for sale. IBM has bought the Denver-based deep learning startup that delivers a wide variety of text analysis…
View ArticleData might be the new oil, but a lot of us just need gasoline
One of the biggest tropes in the era of big data is that data is the new oil -- it's very valuable to the companies that have it, but only after…
View ArticleAirbnb open sources SQL tool built on Facebook’s Presto database
Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb has open sourced a tool called Airpal that the company built to give more of its employees access to the data they need for their jobs. Airpal is built…
View ArticleHow PayPal uses deep learning and detective work to fight fraud
Hui Wang has seen the nature of online fraud change a lot in the 11 years she's been at PayPal. In fact, a continuous evolution of methods is kind of the nature of…
View ArticleWhy boring workloads trump intergalactic scale in HP’s cloud biz
Although having a laugh at so-called "enterprise clouds" is a respected pastime in some circles, there's an argument to be made that they do serve a legitimate purpose. Large-scale public clouds…
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