Artur Lapinsch
Berlin Buzzwords is Back! May 31st – June 3rd
Artur Lapinsch May 11, 2015
Berlin Buzzwords, 'Germany's most exciting conference on storing, processing and searching large amounts of digital data', is back for a sixth year! The conference will take place on May 31st to June 3rd, and this year it will be held at Postbahnhof. It will feature a range of presentations on large
Docker Picks Up $95m to Keep Flying the Flag for Containerisation
Artur Lapinsch April 16, 2015
Docker, the open platform that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers has secured $95 million of Series D funding, it announced earlier this week. With the new capital, the outfit intends to "address the needs of the millions of ecosystem users and thousands of enterprises that have standardized
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Bedrock Data Scoop $3.1m Series A for Data Integration Platform That Cuts Out the Coding
Bedrock Data, a startup founded by former employees of sales and marketing software provider HubSpot, has launched its data integration platform for businesses, officially launching the firm as well and also garnered $3.11 million in Series A funding led by .406 Ventures. The new funding will fuel continued product development
How to Hack a Smart City
A year ago, Cessar Cerrudo, the CTO at IOActive Labs showed how the poorly secured traffic control system in the US cities can be hacked into and manipulated, much like what we've seen in movies like Die Hard 4 and Italian Job. Such vulnerability is common to most countries, using
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SiSense Research Shows Major Surge in UK Tech Investment
Artur Lapinsch April 7, 2015
Sisense, the business analytics software company that offers business intelligence products has revealed in a new study, an increase in "confidence" in the UK tech sector through 2014. Analyses of a decade worth of startup data on 12,000 UK companies against data on approximately 300,000 companies in the CrunchBase database
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Ayadsi Grab $55m to Make Sense of Complex Datasets
Artur Lapinsch March 27, 2015
Ayasdi, the provider of Machine Intelligence Software that automates and accelerates insight discovery announced a fresh funding amounting to $55M in a Series C round along with a bookings growth percentage of over 400% for fiscal year ended Jan 30th, 2015. "Our mission is to make complex data useful for
Unemployment & Inflation Data from the Eurozone Suggests We're Turning a Corner
Artur Lapinsch March 3, 2015
Recent data gathered by data mining firms and governing authorities in Europe has revealed the current unemployment and inflation situation in Eurozone, and things might just be looking up for the hard hit. Key elements of Eurozone's findings, as The Guardian pointed out, are: Statistics provided by Eurostat show that
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Switzerland's Biggest Bank Taps Artificial Intelligence to Keep Pace with Competition
Artur Lapinsch December 9, 2014
Banking giant UBS will harness Artificial Intelligence to provide its clients with personalized counsel."Banking is one of the most rudimentary industries when it comes to digitalization," Dirk Klee, chief operating officer for UBS wealth management and responsible for digital initiatives, said in an interview, reportsBloomberg. "EBay, Amazon – everything
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Kensho Lands $15 Million Worth of Funding from Goldman Sachs
Artur Lapinsch November 25, 2014
Kensho, a pioneering real-time statistical computing systems and scalable analytics architectures announced on Monday that it has acquired a $15 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs. The bank will roll out the platform across its business as well as to some of its big clients. The terms of the
Industry Veteran Eric Amblard Appointed as Vice President of Finance for San Mateo Based Startup Everstring
San Mateo based marketing intelligence firm Everstring announced the appointment of its new Vice President of Finance Eric Amblard. With over ten years of experience in the predictive analytics industry, Eric will be a great asset to Everstring bringing a wealth of knowledge and expertise. He will be responsible for