AvantCredit looks at a range of data sources and uses machine learning to determine lending risk, rather than relying solely on a credit score. The platform can approve and fund a loan in near real-time.
Guest Post The truth of the matter is that only the Facebooks and Googles of the world have or need big data. For the rest of us, ‘big data’ is just marketing hype, sales talk, and jargon.
CloudPhysics made a triple threat of announcements today. The big data company has raised $10 million in funding led by Kleiner and released two new analytics tools to optimize virtualized data centers.
CloudBeat 2013 — our third annual event focusing on revolutionary instances of cloud adoption — is less than a month away.
Sponsored Post DatumFora’s CEO Wasim Khan explains the challenges and opportunities of big data and how DatumFora can help.
Big data and analytics startup Looker has raised $16 million in its first round of funding to promote data-driven discovery in “big data” software and to help it take on major players in the space.
Jibbigo is the world’s first speech-to-speech translator on a phone that runs both online and offline, the company said.
Salesforce has exerted leadership in cloud for more than a decade, and shows no sign of slowing down. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Salesforce COO George Hu will be speaking at CloudBeat 2013.
The technology is still in its alpha phase, but is being used by a handful of large corporate customers. In a nutshell, it helps companies connect employees who would work well together.
The iPad may have lost the tablet wars to an army of Android tabs, but it’s still first in people’s hearts. Second place, however, belongs to a somewhat unlikely candidate.
Guest Post Gaining undivided user attention is a marketer’s utopia.
Our round-up of the startups that received funding today (and can help you get pregnant).
“The quickness to market is incredible,” says Gregory Phillips, a senior web analyst at OfficeMax. “It’s literally hitting a button.”
Increasingly, developers are looking for ways to build applications easily. They want to focus on the product, and don’t want to worry about the underlying infrastructure — the tedious junk like deploying servers, databases, and operating systems.
Social networks are all about people, right? Perhaps, but they’re the worst industry at one of the most important things a brand can do: customer service.
And not just by a little.
Here’s your chance to showcase your product/service in front of 500-plus business and IT execs, investors, and press.
Glow — the super-hyped get-pregnant-now app — announced a $6 million funding round today, the same day it hit the app store.
According to Accenture, enterprises worldwide now spend an estimated $300 billion per year on independent workers, and the cloud plays an increasingly important role in that market.
The Belgian company tracks and analyzes conversations happening across the Internet to help brands stay engaged with their audience.
Sponsored Post Big data is so big that it has the potential to disrupt everything we think we know about consumer behavior, employment, healthcare, and any other sector of our lives.
