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July 2014 Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining Acquisitions and Startups Activity

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July 2014 acquisitions, startups, and company activity in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science: Twitter buys Madbits, WalmartLabs buys Luvocracy, Zillow buys Trulia, Apple buys Booklamp, Yahoo buys Flurry, Salesforce buys RelateIQ, Couchbase, GE, Databricks, and more.

By Gregory Piatetsky, Aug 7, 2014.

Here is the company, startup, and acquisition activity for July 2014 from
@kdnuggets.
See the latest under hashtag
#BigDataCo.

Jul 31: Palantir bought Poptip, NYC startup that helps firms analyze online conversations, do social media survey buff.ly/1zAzlKW
Jul 31: Twitter bought Madbits, #DeepLearning startup, which automatically extracts relevant info from images buff.ly/1s8lER5
Jul 31: PhysIQ, Naperville, IL firm, raises $4.6M to commercialize its digital health analytics platform buff.ly/1zAkksG
Jul 30: WalmartLabs buys Kleiner Perkins-Backed Luvocracy, a Pinterest-Like mrktplace for product recommendations buff.ly/1n4avu5
Jul 30: DC-based Novetta buys Global News Intelligence, Sentiment Influence/Content Analytics Firm w. gov clients buff.ly/1qLG2cw
Jul 30: Causam Energy to buy Power Analytics Corp, makers of software for solving complex power/energy problems buff.ly/1o5eVpm
Jul 29: Peel-Works, Mumbai-bases SaaS and #BigData analytics venture, gets $2M from IDG Ventures, Inventus buff.ly/1n06Zko
Jul 29: ThetaRay, Tel-Aviv Cyber Security and #BigData Innovator, closes $10M Series B buff.ly/1nS2DSD
Jul 28: Zillow to Acquire Trulia for $3.5 Billion nyti.ms/1o5Tlwz
Jul 28: Yukka, Berlin-based #BigData startup, makers of GreenBox & SentiTrade, bought by Neunorm Verwaltungs GmbH buff.ly/1pkQNPf
Jul 28: We need it in Boston! Fixed, SF startup, raised $1.2 M for app to help you fight parking tickets buff.ly/1zmoC6S
Jul 28: Apple bought “Pandora For Books” BookLamp, Boise startup providing book analytics, to battle Amazon buff.ly/1rKRiW2
Jul 27: AppDynamics closes $120 M to accelerate development of its Application Intelligence platform buff.ly/1qGp9je
Jul 24: Synapsify, Bethesda text-analytics startup launched Synapsify Core that finds key text, raised $850K buff.ly/1rEaoND
Jul 24: Quantifind raises $12M to translate Social Media Data to Sales buff.ly/1rzfKYX
Jul 24: Engagement Labs to buy Toronto Social Media analytics and communication firm Entrinsic shrd.by/hkCLY5
Jul 24: Teradata buys assets of Revelytix and Hadapt, including experienced #BigData technologists and IP buff.ly/1z8HSED
Jul 24: Privacy Analytics, Ottawa startup, raises $3.5M in seed financing, scores risk of re-identifying anon data buff.ly/1mJETty
Jul 22: Yahoo to buy 6-yr old analytics startup Flurry for over $100M to bolster mobile ad business buff.ly/UmyC0t
Jul 19: Healthcare Interactive, DC-area firm that helps manage and analyze patient data plants, gets $8M buff.ly/UhZ8b9
Jul 18: I am not kidding – Yo, a single function app that can only send “Yo”, gets $1.5 M in Funding buff.ly/1u0IPzO
Jul 18: NetBoss buys assets of Ventraq Business Analytics, which was offering solutions for telcos and large firms buff.ly/1qOdKtA
Jul 17: Engagement Labs, Toronto-based firm offering real-time, social media data & analytics, raises $4.3M buff.ly/1mlT2Nv
Jul 17: Water Cooler Group buys JubaPlus analytics optimization agency; Launches Dedicated Analytics Division buff.ly/1jV0lRZ
Jul 17: KPMG partners w. UK Imperial College, invests £20m to create KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics buff.ly/UepOJT
Jul 17: PredictionIO raised $2.5M for its Open Source, developer-friendly, Machine Learning Server buff.ly/1jTBeyT
Jul 16: NetBase, Mountain View, CA -based Social Analytics company, raised $15.2M series D buff.ly/1tS74QC
Jul 16: 10 #BigData startups to watch: Sumo Logic, Ayasdi, Feedzai, CloudPhysics, BloomReach, Altiscale, Pursway buff.ly/1qHvtmg
Jul 14: LinkedIn buys Newsle, NLP and machine learning startup buff.ly/1qb0zXI
Jul 13: Amplitude, Y-combinator backed analytics startup competing with Mixpanel, raises $2M Seed Round buff.ly/1tEZ4T1
Jul 13: Salesforce buys Palo Alto #BigData startup RelateIQ for $390M 4 its unstructured data/social nets search buff.ly/1qwZLYR
Jul 11: Wayin startup led by Sun co-founder Scott McNealy gets $13M to analyze social-media sentiment buff.ly/1s2ppsi
Jul 5: Simply Hired raises $12M Series D for its Job Search Engine, now indexes 6M jobs in 24 countries buff.ly/1m2tj1d
Jul 3: WANdisco buys San Francisco-based OhmData, a leading Hbase provider #BigData buff.ly/1rpr371
Jul 3: LexisNexis buys Minneapolis-based Patent Data Analytics firm PatentCore buff.ly/1o586jE
Jul 3: Luminoso, Cambridge-MA #BigData Analytics startup, raises $6.5M Series A to put the ‘Text’ in Context buff.ly/1xnb7Tg
Jul 3: Keen IO, startup that helps developers make their own Analytics products, raised $11 M Series A buff.ly/1qC5i41
Jul 3: Mu Sigma, a top analytics outsourcing firm, buys Singapore-based social media analytics startup Webfluenz buff.ly/1lCHDbQ
Jul 3: Leada, Berkeley-based startup, offers a platform to Practice Data Science, Get Recruited buff.ly/1za5YzM
Jul 2: Couchbase raises $60 M for its #BigData products, nears $1B valuation buff.ly/1qRkJCU
Jul 2: GE and Frost Data Capital to create 30 industrial-focused #BigData startups in 3 years in Orange County buff.ly/1iWyMHq
Jul 2: Optimizely, San Francisco-based optimization platform, buys machine-learning startup Synference buff.ly/1qRjofm
Jul 1: DataBricks, Berkeley-based, raises $33M Series B to commercialize Apache #Spark, a #Hadoop replacement buff.ly/1z5KnbQ
Jul 1: #Boston has nearly 500 companies in its #BigData Ecosystem buff.ly/1pU3xet
Jul 1: Success of “ex-PayPal Mafia” analyzed – how they created 7 “unicorn” startups valued at over $1B buff.ly/1pU2LOH

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