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Anonymous social network Secret raises $25 Million
Secret, a mobile-first social network that allows people to share their personal thoughts and beliefs with others anonymously, raised $25 million in a second round of funding that values the company at $100 million and positions it to take on mainstream social networks. Secret also said it would add Facebook integration to enable members to find ...
Pure Storage Bags $225 Million in Funding at $3 Billion Valuation – IPO? No It’s Private Financing
Flash array storage startup Pure Storage announced a massive new $225 million Series F round that values the company at $3 billion and signals a growing trend toward startups raising private capital instead of testing the public markets. This latest investment actually looks more like an IPO than a private fund-raising. It validates the opinion that ...
Live: CrowdChat #CloudChat IBM Watson and Cloud
IBM is hosting an innovative #CrowdChat on Watson and the Cloud. Transcript of the live recorded crowd conversation below. The topics will be about how IBM Watson ties in with #cloud computing. It’s been three years since IBM Watson appeared on Jeopardy, and IBM has expanded the capabilities a ton since then. We hope to ...
Facebook Data Science Team Announces Open Source Tools for A/B Testing
Facebook is continuing their mission of donating goodness to the community with the release of sourcr code called PlanOut. PlanOut is used for online A/B testing experiments. This is a great move for Facebook, developers, and the data community. As we talk about on SiliconANGLE Wikibon and theCUBE is that Data science is the hottest ...
Cloudera raises monster round of $900 million; $740M from Intel for 18 percent
Cloudera announced that they raised a total of $900 million in equity in a private round of funding. Notable was the monster investment from Intel a whopping $740 million. Reuters reports that this investment was for an 18 percent stake roughly 4.1 billion valuation. Last week everyone was talking when Intel said their investment in ...
International Academic Conference looking For industry practitioners to present on “BigData”
An International academic conference on big data management system is looking to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective management of Big Data systems. The conference’s Chair Prof. Karsten Schwan directs the Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) at Georgia Tech. His ...
Arizona Anti Gay Law #SB1062 In Full Rage Debate – WTF
People are shocked that Arizona is considering this anti gay law #SB1062 I’ve created a CrowdChat to bring in the public conversation for an “on the record” crowd chat. www.crowdchat.net/sb1062 Public Chat Live Right Now – See Real Time Embed Below of CrowdChat in action. Login to Crowdchat participate with Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook ...
Breaking News: Roku Preparing To Go Public
According to Bloomberg report, Roku is preparing to go public later this year. Bloomberg reporter says that a decision to move ahead hasn’t been made, and the Saratoga, California-based company hasn’t selected a lead banker, according to one of their sources who requested anonymity because the discussions are private. The Roku player leverages video from ...
HP Earnings Shows CEO Whitman Turning Things Around
Hewlett-Packard announced earnings that is looking like the turnaround is happening. CEO Meg Whitman is pushing her plan forward. On Thursday, the company turned in increase in the quarterly earnings which shows investors that the company’s ship is turning in the right direction or at least back on track to solid fundamentals. This marks the ...
Breaking news: Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion
An SEC filing discovered on Facebook says that the social network is buying WhatsApp for $19 billion, which includes retention bonuses. Facebook’s press release is here. WhatsApp has built a leading and rapidly growing real-time mobile messaging service, with: . Over 450 million people using the service each month; 70 percent of those people active on ...