The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can’t beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com’s $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data from email, social networks, and calendars to automate large portions of the sales process.The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company raised a significant $40 million round earlier […]
The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can’t beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com’s $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data from email, social networks, and calendars to automate large portions of the sales process.The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company raised a significant $40 million round earlier […]
Just a reminder if you have not done so, please take 60 seconds to take our quarterly survey; thanks!Stocks recovered some of the losses of the past 2 sessions as the Federal Reserve said the end of quantitative easing should be in October but don’t look for an interest rate hike anytime soon. Fed Chair Yellen testifies to Congress next […]
This is a chart showing trading in a company called CYNK Technology since June 17. The stock is up nearly 25,000%. That’s not a typo.Google FinanceThe company’s stock, which the folks at ZeroHedge first alerted us to, has gone from $0.10 on June 17 to $14.71 as of Wednesday’s close. At its current stock price, the company’s market cap is […]
Joost Schreve, vice president of mobile at TripAdvisor, probably has one of the best jobs in the travel industry.The former-CEO of Everytrail (the company was bought by TripAdvisor in February 2011) doesn’t really have to get involved in sales or the direct commercial activities of TripAdvisor’s products – instead, he oversees the company’s development of mobile products and gets to […]
In Chicago, the Big Data initiative is about to make a major leap this summer.Urban planners are excited about the “Array of Things” project, which is installing “smart” lamp posts… pole-mounted sensors that gather data on everything from air quality to sound volume.These smart lamps could make Chicago “a safer, more efficient and cleaner place to live,” according to Charlie […]
How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat’s 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left!Big data meets small business?Two years ago almost to the day, ThriveHive closed a $1.5 million seed round. Now the company’s everything-in-a-box small business […]
Benchmarks scored record highs yet again on Thursday, banking on encouraging June’s nonfarm payroll numbers. Investors were also encouraged by a drop in the unemployment rate. Unemployment dropped to its lowest level in almost six years. The blue-chip index and the S&P 500 closed at a record level for the third straight day. The Dow closed above the 17,000 mark […]
US Postal Service Sees Benefits of Big Data. Procurement Should Too
07-Jul-14 10:00In case anyone had doubts, it’s now official that the “big data” revolution has gone mainstream: The US Postal Service is looking at big data and the analytical capabilities it promises to develop and implement its planned “Internet of Postal Things.” If the Postal Service, which probably collects more […]
Of China’s major cities, Beijing’s pollution problem is probably the worst, causing thousands of premature deaths every year. Its residents are fed up. The growing outrage has forced leaders to declare a “war on pollution,” including the goal of slashing Beijing’s PM2.5— the concentration of the particles that pose the greatest risk to human health—by 25% by 2017. The Beijing […]
