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Shopify pops 65% on the NYSE, starts trading above $28 per share …

E-commerce platform Shopify began trading above $28 a share, up from the $17 per share price the company originally set last night.The company put up 7.7 million shares of stock for sale this morning (NYSE: SHOP), allowing it to generate well over the $100 million it originally planned to raise, according to its S-1 SEC filing.Shopify is a plug-and-play e-commerce solution that gives merchants the tools […]

Apixio's $13.5M round shows the growing importance of big data in …

Medicare rolls are swelling and the Affordable Care Act is bringing more people under the umbrella of insurance coverage. As a result, medical groups and health plans have an ever-more pressing need to predict the costs of care.San Mateo, Calif.-based Apixio wants to fill that need by crunching a lot of existing clinical data, providing healthcare organizations with the intel they need to accurately […]

Big data can help you get more creative, too | VentureBeat | Big Data …

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]]>SAN FRANCISCO — More and more companies are finding themselves boosting their revenues or cutting costs by analyzing data. But that’s not all, folks. Big data tools can also help you think more creatively and spot genuine innovation.At least that can be true in the advertising business. The idea is to weed out the cliches and present people […]