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Fancy Founder Wants to Be the “Pre-Crime” of Shopping, Minority Report Style
Fancy is a rising star in today’s era of curation and with a bookmarking tool and a focus on images, Fancy’s constantly being compared to the ever-popular Pinterest. But the two curation tools were built from different perspectives and different goals in mind, Fancy being designed around brands, the ability to purchase, and the overall ...
Acunote Analytics Takes the “Politics” Out of Office Decisions
Analytics firm Acunote has an impressive clientele that includes tech firms like EMC, IBM, Google Apps and other enterprise such as Bank of America. The company offers analytical solutions that make it easier to manage large workforces and predict where a project is going – now even better thanks to Management Analytics. Management Analytics is ...
Contently Lures Publishers with Free Editorial Management Suite
The world of web publishing has many benefits over traditional print distribution, a digital footprint being one of the most notable perks. The ability to track and collaborate around online content has certainly made my job easier in recent years, and as the cloud emerges as a necessary means for communicating around work, more tools ...
Google Takes On All Rivals at I/O: Nexus 7 Tablet, Nexus Q and Siri Clone
Google kicked off their annual I/O developer conference today and really rose to the occasion, touching on just about every speculation and expectation we had for the event. Running the gamut from Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to a new tablet, a connected home device and even a live demo of Google Glass by Sergey Brin ...
Google Glass Gets Gutsy Demo by Sergey at I/O 2012
During Google I/O’s keynote this morning Google co-founder Sergey Brin interrupted the Google+ product demo to run a demo of his own: Google Glass. The connected spectacles first made their appearance when Brin wore them to an event party several weeks ago, and they’ve raised all sorts of questions about Google’s plans for connected devices ...
DailyCandy CEO Puts Analytics to Work for Publishers with LinkSmart
LinkSmart is existing stealth today with a new product and $4.7 million in venture capital to finance its near term growth. It’s backed by the Foundry Group, Sutter Hill Ventures, and Costanoa Venture Capital, and deservingly so. LinkSmart is the brainchild of former DailyCandy CEO Pete Sheinbaum, who sought out to address a very specific pain point ...
Pantheon Banks Another $5M for Drupal-as-a-Service
Pantheon is a startup that was founded in 2010 and only has 13 employees, but it’s already sitting on $6.3 million in venture capital. That’s including this week’s $5 million funding round, led by the Foundry Group with participation from a few of the company’s existing backers – Baseline, First Round, and Founders Collective. What ...
What Special Skills Do You Need to Run a Big Data Startup? Q&A Series
Sumo Logic is still what you’d consider a startup, but already its demonstrated some useful life lessons for applying ideas to the big data industry, including the concept of harnessing the right talent. Specializing in log data analytics, Sumo Logic emerged from stealth earlier this year to take on heavyweights like Splunk with a penchant ...
Is Yammer a Smart Buy or is Microsoft Riding the Bandwagon?
Microsoft Corp. finally admitted that they’re acquiring Yammer Inc., a provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash. The Yammer team will be joining the Microsoft Office Division, led by division President Kurt DelBene, and the team will continue to report to current CEO David Sacks. “The acquisition of Yammer underscores our commitment ...
appMobi Spreads the Gospel of HTML5, Sees Facebook as Key to Mobile App Discovery
HTML5 is of growing interest to mobile developers in particular, but many questions have been raised about this gaining standard and its ability to unify our mobile experience. Mobile development tools maker appMobi recognizes the apprehension over HTML5, and hopes to ease our minds with some stats that demonstrate a very solid uptake of HTML5 ...
