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 […]
Art by Mike LucasAllergen Research has raised $80 million to help tackle the problem of peanut allergies, Brian Gormley reports for Dow Jones VentureWire. The company is developing a product that desensitizes patients so that accidental exposure to peanuts doesn’t cause a severe allergic response. Peanut allergy is one of the most common of food allergies, which affect 5% of children and 4% […]
Get all the tech funding news of the day delivered straight to your mailbox! Sign up for Funding Daily and never miss a deal.In today’s funding: Big money for online learning driven by big data, arm sleeve health sensors, and … VCs pour money into rehydration powder, for some reason.Desire2Learn raises $85M for web-based teaching platformBig data is everywhere. It’s usually […]
In this episode, Dylan Tweney and Jordan Novet catch up with data science maven (and New York tech scene fixture) Hilary Mason about her new startup, Fast Forward Labs, and how it will help companies solve their data science problems.Read more about Fast Forward Labs on VentureBeat.And we also tell you what to think about:Yahoo’s acquisition of Flurry,
the recent partnership between […]
IBM is pushing big data software to Chinese universities, by way of an agreement with China’s Ministry of Education.Under a program called IBM U-100, IBM is donate a whole mess of big data and analytics software worth $100 million and provide support for 100 Chinese universities, according to a statement IBM issued earlier this week. Among the offerings are IBM’s […]
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 […]
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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 […]
