CEO Series Special Edition : Powerful Women in Tech
Women today can be anything they wish. From a loving mother to a hardworking employee, a nurse, doctor, teacher, lawyer, judge, or even a CEO of a company they built and nurtured like it’s…
A Win for Predictive Analytics : Infer Doubles Customer Bookings Since April
Delivering on its April promise to investors, predictive analytics startup Infer revealed this week that it has doubled its customer bookings since exiting stealth mode. As a result, the company is now processing 200…
DARPA Offers Up $2M Cash Prize To Anyone Who Can Build Hacker-Proof Software
There are few problems that money cannot solve. And with the US government waging a never-ending war against cyberattacks on its systems, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just decided to…
For Domino’s Pizza, Splunk is the Secret Sauce to Efficiency
Domino’s Pizza, the second largest pizza chain in the United States, is using Splunk to gain operational visibility across 10,300 stores in over 70 international markets. The company detailed its case study in a…
Smart Sensors Take Over Bike Locks + 3D Scanners
This week’s SmartDevice roundup features the latest crowdfunding projects, starting with a smart lock for your bike, a mobile sensor to capture the 3D world, and a device that manages charging for various devices.…
SAS, Teradata Team on HDP to Deliver Integrated Analytics
In a move to help organizations consolidate their Big Data environments, analytics giant SAS and partner Teradata have updated their joint offering to support Hortonworks’ fast-growing Hadoop distribution. Dubbed Analytics Advantage Program with Hadoop,…
The iPad Air Journey: Rumors, the Big Debut, and Competition
It’s been an interesting few weeks in the tablet arena, with the blogosphere noticeably more abuzz in the month leading up to the debut of the Retina-equipped iPad. It all started with a little…
HP Giving up Mobile Dreams to Focus on 3D Printers
To bolster Hewlett-Packard’s financial position, CEO Meg Whitman is said to be looking for buyers for the company’s mobile-computing patents. According to sources familiar with the matter who chose to remain anonymous as the…
HP Autonomy Expands Analytics Lineup with Qfiniti 10
The contact center, the evolutionary successor of the traditional call center, plays a much bigger role in shaping customer experiences now that mobile has expanded beyond voice and messaging to video and social media.…
Pinterest Raises $225M, Moves to Expand Globally
Social scrapbooking service, Pinterest, has once again raked in some massive funding. According to AllThingsD, Pinterest has raised $225 million in a Series E funding round led by Fidelity Investments, with the participation of…