With Los Angeles facing dismal graduation rates, this mayoral candidate wants to teach students about technology instead of spending money on jailing them in the future.
The Mountain View Calif. based startup leverages open source computing framework Hadoop and NoSQL to bring "big data" to large companies.
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Sumo Logic, the "big data" startup that specializes in analytics, has pulled in $30 million in funding.
Platfora, the startup that made a splash at the recent Strata conference with its flagship product to "unleash the potential of Hadoop," has raised its second round of funding.
The Pleasanton, Calif.-based company announced plans for a recruiting mobile app for hiring teams, as well as a big data analytics toolset.
For Pentaho, the startup that claims to be the first business intelligence (BI) provider to shift its focus to "big data", the bet is paying off.
Platfora, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed "big data" startup, unveiled the product it has been baking for over a year at Strata, a data-focussed conference today.
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Attivio, a Boston-based "big data" startup has pulled in $34 million to help customers organize their data -- whether it's sitting pretty in a database or is strewn haphazardly around the enterprise.
For businesses, building 'big data' capabilities is far easier said than done. Precog wants to change that by making it easier for companies to ask questions about their data.
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