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Funding Daily: Advertising, big data, and white whales | VentureBeat …

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 […]

Funding Daily: Big data for yo brain | VentureBeat | Deals | by …

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 […]

IBM pushes its big data software at Chinese universities – VentureBeat

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 […]

This new mobile app uses big data to analyze your face – VentureBeat

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]]>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. Register now and save $200!Do you know what your true skin tone and undertone are? What about how your skin has changed over […]