Ticketfly unveils ‘first of its kind’ products to identify and reward top fans

Ticketfly unveiled its latest product Fanbase, a suite of customer analytics products that founder Andrew Dreskin said is a first of its kind. Venues and event promoters can use Fanbase to identify their top fans and offer them rewards for loyalty.

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 …

Funding daily: It’s wise to invest in enterprise

Startups targeted to businesses, rather than consumers, are increasingly closing the largest rounds. Today was no exception.

Clicktale raises $17M to tell the story behind every [computer] mouse

Every mouse has a story, whether its Mickey and Minnie, Alice in Wonderland’s Dormouse, or the one helping you navigate around the Internet.

Clicktale has raised $17 million for its ‘in-page analytics’ technology that provides insights into customers’ online behavior, …

Hot web optimization startup Optimizely gets $28M, boasts 400% revenue growth

Founder and CEO Dan Siroker formed the idea for the company while working as an analytics lead on the Obama campaign.

Ryan Holmes: HootSuite on the same user growth curve as Evernote, Zendesk

"We're kinda matching Zendesk and Evernote in user growth curve," Holmes said. "Our progressive cycle to each additional million is getting shorter and shorter, which is a good thing."

Tibco is ‘the fastest growing enterprise software company,’ CEO says — despite sales missteps

Imagine this: You’re a founder of a Silicon Valley enterprise software company. It’s only 15 years old, but it’s already worth $3.5 billion. You’ve never lost money, and you’ve left your initial competition in the dust.

The companies you’re now …

Goats are trending, the Harlem Shake is done, and YouTube is now embedded in Google Trends

Shockingly, Rebecca Black searches spike every week on the day after Thursday and before Saturday.

Custora’s new analytics platform lets retailers test practically any marketing strategy

The myth of the "average shopper" is dead, according to New York City customer analytics startup Custora.

Google BigQuery gets bigger with new features

Data nerds will benefit from the batch of updates to BigQuery, a web service that lets developers perform interactive analysis of massive datasets.

From Nike+ and Fitbit to nuclear plants and corporate databases, embedded analytics are everywhere (infographic)

Even though analytics is already a $34 billion industry, only 25 percent of workers have access to BI tools -- mostly due to costs which are still too high, and complexity, which is still too great.

Pinterest launches Web Analytics for brands, takes one giant leap towards monetization

This is huge, because brands like Sephora say their Pinterest followers spend 15 times more than their Facebook fans.

Evolv pulls in $15M to prevent the ‘wrong person ending up in the wrong job’

Evolv's "big data" tech to increase workplace productivity and tenure has attracted the attention of investors.

IBM uses ‘big data’ tech to keep track of your meatballs

To prevent a horse meat scandal in the U.S., The Cheesecake Factory is using IBM's tools to analyze large data sets from 175 locations.

With a $10K server, SiSense claims it can crunch 10 terabytes of data in 10 seconds (exclusive)

A startup called SiSense says it will break computing records today by crunching 10 terabytes of data on a $10,000 machine in a matter of seconds -- all on a single server node.

Facebook updates SDK for iOS to help developers know what’s going on (and make more money)

With tracking capabilities like these, the new SDK is almost starting to impinge on dedicated app analytics solutions like App Annie and Flurry, but of course in a purely Facebook-focused manner.

Playnomics raises $5M to fuel data science for digital games

Playnomics PlayRM service helps predict which users should be targeted with special offers inside games.

50% of cloud deployments are insecure, but Newvem’s new ‘Cloud Care’ will check yours for free

People have health care, and now clouds have "cloud care." The only difference? Cloud care is free.