Posts Tagged ‘ analytics ’

Twitter And Mediashift Partner To Resell Firehose Data

Twitter And Mediashift Partner To Resell Firehose Data

Twitter and realtime data curation service Mediasift have just announced a data resell partnership here at the Data 2.0 Conference at the Mission Bay Conference Center. This move is similar to when Twitter partnered with Gnip to make parts of Twitter’s firehose commercially available five months ago, except Gnip focuses on bulk instead...

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Social Analytics Platform BackType Raises a Cool Million in Funding

Social Analytics Platform BackType Raises a Cool Million in Funding

Today, San Francisco-based marketing intelligence company, BackType , announced that it has closed a seed funding round of just over $1 million, led by a group of Silicon Valley investors, including lead investor True Ventures as well as Manu Kumar’s K9 Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Chris Sacca’s Lowercase Capital, Dave McClure’s 500 Startups, Founder...

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Smart Systems: Using Data to Find New Space in an Old World

Smart Systems: Using Data to Find New Space in an Old World

The water system that serves the U.S. capital city of Washington, D.C. dates back to the nation's civil war. Just think - in the time of Lincoln people dug into the ground with hand-made shovels to lay a water system.

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How Cloud Computing & Web Services Are Changing the IT Job Market

How Cloud Computing & Web Services Are Changing the IT Job Market

As cloud and web services continue to gain speed, the upfront cost of launching a product is decreasing. Businesses can create more for less money –- and with less people. Though in the long run this likely means fewer IT positions, it’s currently changing a different aspect of the tech job market: desired...

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Android apps running on BlackBerry phones?

Android apps running on BlackBerry phones?

An app developer has noticed that someone has been running its Android app ShopSavvy on several BlackBerry handsets. That someone could well be RIM, as rumours that the company is looking to the Android App Store to bolster its PlayBook app offerings surfaced earlier this year. Analytics data showed that the Android shopping...

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