Top-ten-of-everything site Ranker had a novel idea for rating and ranking the best film schools in the country: check which ones graduate the most successful filmmakers.
"Imagine all diagnostics some day being reduced to a simple blood test," said CEO Roopam Banerjee, who believes Raindance products are a "step in that direction."
By take a deep look at people's Facebook habits, Wolfram Alpha makes it clear that most Facebook users lead extremely conventional lives.
Newly-launched startup SRCH2 is not focused on standard web search, a space inhabited by Google and Bing, but is offering a new take on 'enterprise search.'
ElectNext just raised $1.3 million to bring its open political database to the news media.
Evolv's "big data" tech to increase workplace productivity and tenure has attracted the attention of investors.
Guest Post In the past few weeks we’ve been under a data deluge.
"Big data" and analytics startup Sociocast has raised $1 million in new funding, which it will use hire new stuff and to beef up its flagship Prediction API product.
Firebase's cofounder James Tamplin (pictured, left) wants to make the process of developing an app "ten times easier," so he built a product that will do the hard work for you.
The Transporter started as a Kickstarter campaign and is now backed by $6 million in venture capital.
Yandex shut down its social search app today, soon after Facebook pulled the plug on the app's data access.
Facebook updated its Platform Policy today to explain why it shut down data access for social search app Wonder.
Yandex says Facebook is denying the company access to its data shortly after it launched social search app Wonder.
With its acquisition of Degree Compass, well-funded startup Desire2Learn is exploring how predictive analytics can reduce the time it takes for students to graduate college.
Radius raises $12.4 million for its database of small business data and the sales leads that come out of it.
Guest Post President Obama’s former campaign’s director of digital analytics, Amelia Showalter, is now a kind of political sabermetrician-for-hire.
Editor's Pick Ayasdi is working with the nation's top hospitals and medical researchers to uncover more targeted treatments for disease.
HealthCatalyst is the latest health technology startup to benefit from the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, which mandates that health providers and hospitals shift to to electronic records.
A new tool called created by Chartbeat called "Percent of the Internet" shows you how many people at any given time are using Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari.
Wonder what your first tweet was? Now, you can finally find out.
