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Ex-Googlers Raise $6M For Connectifier, An AI Approach To Recruitment Search
Sites like LinkedIn and Monster.com have become online mainstays both for people looking for jobs and also companies looking to find the right people to fill a role. Now a new startup hopes to turn the recruitment process on its head through artificial intelligence and powerful search software that crawls across many sources at once to build up some 300 million online profiles to find the… Read More
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French IoT Startup Actility Raises $25M From Foxconn, Orange And More
Startup activity in France around Internet of Things continues to heat up. Following yesterday’s news that Samsung had taken an investment in Sigfox, today another IoT startup, Actility, announced that it has raised €22.5 million ($25 million), led by Ginko Ventures, the European investment arm of Foxconn. Others in the round include the carriers Orange (which has disclosed a €3… Read More
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PowWow, A Startup That Tracks Water Pump Health, Raises $3M
PowWow, a startup that specializes in technology like a tool that detect leaks and help farmers keep track of their water usage, has raised $3 million. PowWow uses a combination of data from aerial imagery, water energy records and other kinds of data, and then sends farmers text messages with updates if there is a problem. Those problems can be something along the lines of finding a leak.… Read More
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This Year’s Boston Red Sox Could Be An Argument Against Data-Driven Decision Making
For several years now, we’ve been hearing that we should follow that data and the truth will set our businesses free, but one of the chief proponents of data-driven decision making are sports teams. Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane famously conceived of the idea as described in the book and movie Moneyball. What Beane did was take a process that was driven by gut,… Read More
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IBM Pours Researchers And Resources Into Apache Spark Project
IBM today pledged it would devote 3500 researchers to the open source big data project, Apache Spark. It also announced that it was open sourcing its own IBM SystemML machine learning technology in a move designed to help push it to the forefront of big data and machine learning.
These two technologies are part of the IBM transformation strategy that includes cloud, big data, analytics and… Read More
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Deutsche Telekom Ties Up With Huawei In Growing Amazon/Google Cloud Rivalry
Are we headed for yet more price wars in the world of cloud computing? Amazon and Google have made huge inroads into the market on the back of deep discounts and generous storage allowances, and as a measure of their competitive threat, today one of the bigger and older incumbents out of Europe announced a partnership that it hopes will help it fight back. Germany’s Deutsche… Read More
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Standards Bring Order To Enterprise Software
One thing was clear to me this week as I wandered the halls of the Hilton at Torrey Pines for the Cloud Identity Summit, and it had nothing to do with the famous golf course or the trees for which it’s named. Whatever the subject, enterprise scale brings with it complexity, and one of the ways to counteract that complexity is developing standards. In fact, a persistent theme across… Read More
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The Enterprise Silo Problem Stubbornly Persists
I’ve been writing about the enterprise for a long time, and back in the day when I was covering content management, there was forever talk about busting down content silos and putting the content to work across the company. It was a nice idea, but in practice it rarely happens. What I learned this week, as I attended the Cloud Identity Summit in San Diego, was that identity was also… Read More
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WalkMe Raises Another $25M For Its Platform To Get Around Websites And Software More Easily
Confusing or complicated website and software design can cost companies a lot in lost traffic and business, but for one startup, it’s a problem that is proving to be lucrative. WalkMe, which has developed a platform that integrates with existing software and sites to help guide people through using them — used by companies like eBay, Salesforce and Expedia — has raised… Read More
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Personali, A Service That Works To Optimize Discounts Online, Raises $12M
Personali, an online service that retailers can use to adjust prices and discounts in real time, said it has raised $12 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Retailers can integrate Personali code into their online commerce presence. When a customer visits a page, the retailer will check with the rules that Personali has created for a specific product, which is based on things… Read More
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