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Get all the tech funding news of the day delivered straight to your mailbox! Sign up for Funding Daily and never miss a deal.AppNexus grabs $60MAd tech company AppNexus continues to roll up financing, announcing new funding of $60 million today — and it might be raising another $40 million soon. In a post today on the company’s blog, CEO and cofounder Brian O’Kelley […]
Low and Expanding Risk Premiums Are the Root of Abrupt Stock Market LossesStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 13, 2014 – 05:56 PM GMTBy: John_MauldinRisk premiums. I don’t know anyone who seriously maintains that risk premiums are anywhere close to normal. They more closely resemble what we see just before a major bear market kicks in. Which doesn’t mean that they […]
California is currently in the grips of a major drought, one of the worst of this generation. The region’s lack of precipitation has not only hindered California’s agricultural industry, it’s also turned our forests into tinder. But researchers at the University of California San Diego have a potential solution: just wire up all the trees to the Internet of Things.Wildfires […]
Facebook, Google and just about everyone except Science 2.0 use global distributed computers to mine your web history and learn everything about you to generate revenue. Big data is being led by marketing, like many things are, but early adopters who make money at things create tools that everyone can then use, and that will be a big help for […]
1 2 3 4 5NextIn the April issue of Cycle World, we featured a test of high-performance middleweights, the two-cylinder Ducati 899 Panigale, the three-cylinder MV Agusta F3 800, and the four-cylinder Suzuki GSX-R750. In our sportbike comparison test at the Streets of Willow Springs in California, Senior Editor Blake Conner also came up with a superb idea—comparing the Ducati […]
Imagine that your local ambulance and fire dispatch runs on an algorithm developed with the help of the data scientists who built Lyft’s grid-optimization system.Bayes Impact, a big data focused nonprofit, launched its fall 2014 fellowship last week to make that actually happen.Former Eventbrite lead data scientist Paul Duan, nonprofit veteran Andrew Jiang, and former Thomvest Ventures analyst Eric Liu founded […]
Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as a company.There is little doubt that big data is a big deal these days and companies are popping up to help customers process the data. Databricks […]
We analyze the CRN Big Data 100 for insights into trends in the future of Big Data companies, including changes in database solutions, active regions, and what industries are undergoing the most change right now. comments//By Grant Marshall, June 2014.We analyze the lists included in the CRN Big Data 100 to find trends related to Big Data companies.First, we […]
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]]>Updated at 11:56 a.m. PST to show the Long Beach project is in progress, not complete.Code for America is working on a project that uses big data to reduce emergency room calls in the California city of Long Beach.Rhys Fureigh, Molly McLeod, and Dan Getelman are the three Code for America 2014 fellows working on the Long Beach […]
