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From privacy to cake pops: 5 deep insights on big data
GigaOm &bull Dec 14, 2011
OK, everyone gets it - Hadoop is great and companies need to start analyzing all their data lest they risk losing their competitive edge. Gotcha. But there's a heck of a lot more to think about when it comes to big data, ranging from… Full Story »
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Outbrain raises $35M for content discovery platform
GigaOm &bull Dec 14, 2011
Outbrain, a content discovery platform that helps online publishers drive engagement, has raised $35 million in a Series D round led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Carmel Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. That brings Outbrain's total funding… Full Story »
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Silver Spring Networks raising $30M, despite planned IPO
GigaOm &bull Dec 14, 2011
Smart grid company Silver Spring Networks is raising a $30 million round of debt and options, according to a filing. The company, which filed to go public this summer, has closed $24 million of that planned round and is looking… Full Story »
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Life360 pulls in $3.5M round, hits 10 million users
GigaOm &bull Dec 13, 2011
Life360, a mobile family safety app that we've followed, has been on a tear and is now up to 10 million users. That growth has helped the San Francisco location start-up pull in a $3.5 million Series A round from… Full Story »
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SOASTA, the granddaddy of cloud testing, gets $12M
GigaOm &bull Dec 12, 2011
SOASTA, the company that helped pioneer cloud-based load testing, has raised a $12 million Series D round as a throng of competitors jockeys for position behind it. The idea of using virtual servers to simulate real-world load on applications was… Full Story »
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Why eBay is buying recommendation engine Hunch
GigaOm &bull Nov 21, 2011
EBay has announced it is buying New York start-up Hunch, a recommendation engine start-up created by Chris Dixon and Caterina Fake, to help improve its recommendation services. The purchase price hasn't been announced but venture capital investor and former TechCrunch… Full Story »
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Klip raises another $8 million for social, mobile video sharing app
GigaOm &bull Nov 18, 2011
It was just two months ago that Palo Alto-based startup Klip released a mobile app for shooting videos on your iPhone and sharing them with friends. At that point, Klip had raised $2 million in Series A funding from Matrix… Full Story »
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Yelp top brass cashed out $36M in pre-IPO stock sale
GigaOm &bull Nov 17, 2011
Six of Yelp's top executives and investors cashed out $36.8 million worth of company stock during Yelp's Series E funding round in early 2010, according to the company's IPO filing, with CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and board chairman Max Levchin each… Full Story »
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Vidyard raises $1.65M to get enterprise videos online
GigaOm &bull Nov 17, 2011
Startup Vidyard has raised $1.65 million in an effort to grow its platform for enterprise video distribution. The funding comes from investors like Softech VC, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, YCombinator, SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, iNovia Capital, Gmail creator and FriendFeed… Full Story »
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Opower hires CFO, considering IPO down the road
GigaOm &bull Nov 16, 2011
Energy software startup Opower has hired a chief financial officer, Thomas Kramer, and is mulling over a potential IPO down the road. Kramer was previously the CFO at Cvent, and created the eCommerce strategy for Boston Consulting Group. Opower has… Full Story »
