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Data visualization underdog SlamData raises $6.7M to take on old guard
Amid the fierce competition in the data visualization market, a group of top investors are betting that Boulder, Colorado-based SlamData Inc. will come out ahead. Early Mint.com backer Shasta Ventures, True Ventures and three other funds announced today that they have invested $6.7 million in the startup to help fuel its campaign against traditional dashboard ...
IBM trains Watson to detect eye problems
It seems that hardly a week goes by nowadays without IBM Corp. finding a new application for its Watson artificial intelligence system. The latest addition to the list is detecting eye problems, an area where the technology giant hopes to automate diagnosis in the same way that it’s doing over on the oncology front. The ...
Microsoft adds Kubernetes application container manager to its cloud
As application container adoption continues to grow, cloud providers are putting more and more effort into accommodating applications that use the technology. Microsoft Corp. upped the ante today by adding support for Kubernetes to its Azure Container Service. Containers bundle an application and all of the software needed to run it into a single package that ...
Data.world raises $18.7M to build a social network for analytics pros
Analytics professionals have access to a variety of tools that can help them increase the accuracy of their information and add new details from external sources. But according to Data.world Inc., understanding the big picture requires an entirely different kind of service: a social network. The startup announced today that it has raised $18.7 million ...
TVSquared raises $6.5M to bring analytics to TV advertising
Although brands invest more than $200 billion in television ads every year, they lack access to many of the spending optimization capabilities that are available on social media and other online marketing channels. A Scottish startup called TVSquared Inc. is working to bridge the gap. Its efforts received a boost today in the form of a ...
TetraVue raises $10M to build better sensors for self-driving cars
Many if not most of the companies currently developing autonomous vehicles buy their object recognition equipment from Mobileye N.V., but it’s hardly the only provider out there. One of the most promising contenders is a low-key firm called TetraVue Inc. that entered the spotlight for the first time on Thursday after revealing that it has raised $10 ...
Aviso, the data science startup helping tech giants boost sales, raises $8M
Salespeople at the world’s top tech firms have long abandoned the traditional manual approach to managing their deal-making efforts. Instead, they employ automation tools from the likes of Aviso Inc., which announced today that it has raised $8 million in funding. The Menlo Park, California-based startup currently counts Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Inc., Splunk Inc., ...
Microsoft pushes back key Windows security update by an entire month
Despite the difficulty of keeping up with the rapidly evolving threat landscape, Microsoft Corp. has managed to issue new security updates for Windows consistently every month since 2003. As a result, company watchers were taken off guard on Wednesday when it announced that the patch originally scheduled for this Tuesday had been pushed back to ...
Verizon acquires startup Skyward to manage drone fleets
Verizon Communications Inc.’s ambitions for the burgeoning drone market aren’t limited to merely providing operators with access to its wireless network. The carrier also plans to offer value-added tools for easing fleet operations, a plan that was set into motion today following the announcement that it’s acquiring Skyward IO Inc. The Portland-based startup, which has ...
IBM and Visa team up to enable new Internet of Things business models with Watson
In the future, smart cars may not only gain the ability to navigate the roads without human input but also become independent enough to pay automatically after refueling at a gas station. That’s the vision IBM Corp. and Visa Inc. laid out today during the opening event for Big Blue’s new $200 million Watson IoT ...