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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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Radar launches platform to take the hassle out of building location services
Location data is finding use in a growing number of applications ranging from optimizing supply chain operations to cutting travel times for field personnel. But many companies still struggle to take advantage of their information because of the technical challenges involved, a …
IBM opens access to Watson’s core machine learning component
The last few years have seen IBM Corp. apply its Watson artificial intelligence to a wide variety of areas ranging from speech recognition to drug research. But the company can’t address every single use case alone, a limitation that it’s now looking …
Armed with $10M in new funding, IOVOX moves to unlock the world’s call data
Another promising startup has raised funding to unlock the valuable data lurking in business calls. London-based IOVOX Ltd. today announced that it has received $10 million from Silicon Valley Bank, SF Capital and a British fund called Octopus Ventures. The funding comes …