Big data hits the big time: Datameer triples revenues in a year

a number of enterprising startups that sell big data analysis tools to large companies are seeing explosive revenue growth -- the latest sign the big data gold rush is fully on.

Adobe exec: Creative Cloud complainers will love us once they try us (interview)

All of the complaints about Adobe's new subscription-only model haven't "overshadowed all the goodness that we released," Adobe marketing executive Scott Morris told VentureBeat.

Meet the 10 startups competing in the HealthBeat ‘Innovation Showdown’

We’re blown away by the quality of the more than 150 applicants to the HealthBeat 2013 “Grand Rounds Innovation Showdown,” one of the highlights of VentureBeat’s inaugural health tech conference (May 20-21 in San Francisco).

We asked startups throughout the …

Twitter acquires ‘big data’ and large-scale computing startup Ubalo

The startup was working on simple ways of scaling code beyond single machines. Using the Ubalo infrastructure, developers could write code for multiple machines with no additional overhead.

Cloud data-protection firm PerspecSys raises $12M, plans for global sales push

PerspecSys, the Toronto-based cloud data protection company, has closed $12 million in its second round of funding. The company plans to use the capital injection to further develop global sales and marketing efforts and continue product development.

White House drafts official Open Data Policy of the United States … on GitHub

"Today's news marks the first time a government entity has published law as a living, collaborative document," Balter said. "We're excited to see how the Open Data Policy evolves with the input of the community, and we hope this is just the first of many."

Box acquires Crocodoc to turn all those docs you upload into HTML5 masterpieces

File-sharing company Box acquired Crocodoc today, which gives people a way to turn documents into smooth, HTML5 experiences.

New Google & Time project shows stunning images of earth changing over 30 years

Google and Time Magazine have partnered to create a brilliant new project called Timelapse that shows satellite imagery of earth during the course of nearly 30 years, giving us a better understanding of how our planet is transforming.

MadeiraCloud nabs $1.5M from Sequoia for AWS-based visual cloud management

Amazon Web Services visualization startup MadeiraCloud has raised an undisclosed sum from Sequoia Capital, but a source tells us it's in the "low single millions."

SAP’s cloud moves show businesses won’t tolerate 18-month deployments any more

Enterprise software giant SAP has been throwing its hands in the air for years, exclaiming that it is indeed a cloud company. But yesterday, SAP took a big step that shows where the it and its customers are at by …

Blue Jeans: We’re 20-25% of the videoconferencing market (and we just got much cheaper)

Blue Jeans unveiled a massive update to its standard pricing today, adding a new licensing model that offers companies unlimited "all you can meet" videoconferencing plans for as low as $10 per user, per month.

Parse releases Parse Hosting to prove it’s still innovating after Facebook acquisition

Less than two weeks after its acquisition by Facebook, Parse is announcing a new product. Parse is adding Parse Hosting to its suite of products that developers can use to be “server-free from beginning to end.”

Parse simplifies the process …

Hello, Skype … and WhatsApp: Viber has 200M users and a new, spiffy desktop video-calling client

The result is a combination of just about every kind of communication you could wish for in a single client: mobile text-message-like messaging, audio, and video. Which means that not only is Viber competing with mobile messaging platforms like the massive WhatsApp, it's also competing with existing VOIP giant Skype.

Dropbox plans first-ever developer conference for July 9 in S.F.

Cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox will host its first-ever developer conference — dubbed DBX — on July 9 in San Francisco.

Adobe is killing Creative Suite; here’s why

This is the last stop for the Creative Suite train; all passengers must deboard. But the next train is so much better. And for Adobe, it's even more lucrative than $700 bi-annual installments.

Microsoft says over 250M people are now using SkyDrive

Google Drive and Dropbox competitor SkyDrive now has more than 250 million users, Microsoft said today in a blog post.