Cornell University: We didn’t review Facebook’s mood-manipulation experiment
Image Credit: Assets via Shutterstock & Facebook, illustration by Eric Blattberg / VentureBeatUpdated at 5:45 p.m. PST to show Professor Michelle N. Meyer agreed with Cornell that their IRB was not...
View ArticleDataSift works with the United Nations to analyze social data for...
Image Credit: Illustration by VentureBeat / Eric BlattbergUpdated at 9:58 a.m. PST to show DataSift provides access to social data from more than just Twitter. Social data provider DataSift and the...
View ArticleBay Area data scientists have come together to support this big data fellowship
Image Credit: Sebastien Wiertz/FlickrImagine that your local ambulance and fire dispatch runs on an algorithm developed with the help of the data scientists who built Lyft’s grid-optimization system....
View ArticleStarting in September, you can learn about data science through Kaplan
Above: Kaplan Test PrepImage Credit: Kaplan International English/FlickrTest prep giant Kaplan is now in the data science bootcamp business. Through the brand name Metis, Kaplan is launching its first...
View ArticleIBM pushes its big data software at Chinese universities
Image Credit: edward stojakovic/FlickrIBM is pushing big data software to Chinese universities, by way of an agreement with China’s Ministry of Education. Under a program called IBM U-100, IBM is...
View ArticleCaptricity raises $10M to grow its business of digitizing paperwork for...
Above: Kuang Chen, Captricity's founder and chief executiveImage Credit: Captricity Captricity, a startup that helps enterprises digitize their paperwork, faxes, scans, mobile phone photos, and...
View ArticleIIX raises $10.4M to bring peering to everyone
Image Credit: Phil Hollenback/FlickrIIX, a startup that provides direct interconnection technology, has just come out of stealth mode, and it wants to bring peering to another level, with help from the...
View ArticleHow is this food-delivery startup standing out? By throwing $1 dinner parties
Above: SpoonRocket Image Credit: Larry Zhou/VentureBeatSpoonRocket, a startup that delivers meals to people in San Francisco and the East Bay, is trying out an unusual but fitting promotional tool: its...
View ArticleMeet Data for Good, the Hacker News for showing off your world-changing data...
Above: From left, Data For Good founders Tobias Pfaff, Vicens Fayos, and David Geffroy.Image Credit: Robin HimmelsData scientists already have DataTau, a specialized version of Hacker News, that...
View ArticleManzama raises $1.3M to keep more people from drowning in information
Image Credit: Jirsak/ShutterstockManzama, a startup with cloud-based software that helps law firms stay on top of key information about their clients, is expanding into consulting and financial...
View ArticleAfter the World Cup, Americans made a lot of friends with Brazilians
Image Credit: Filipe Frazao/ShutterstockThe World Cup just ended last Sunday, as we may expect, passionate soccer fans who are lucky enough to visit Brazil probably have made a lot of international...
View ArticleSan Francisco city government wants to give your data back to you
Image Credit: FintrvlrSan Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has just announced the city’s open data strategic plan, which aims to “broaden the focus of open data from simply publishing to making it available in a...
View ArticleInternet of things startup Octoblu designs a platform that translates protocols
Image Credit: Mike/Flickr While big companies are working hard to impose standards on the burgeoning Internet of things (IoT), little Octoblu is willing to be the translator between whatever protocols...
View ArticleSpoonRocket website struck down by insane traffic on the first day of a huge...
Above: SpoonRocket Image Credit: Larry Zhou/VentureBeatThe food delivery startup SpoonRocket threw its first dinner party yesterday in San Francisco, and its website crashed due to an insane volume of...
View ArticleFood-delivery startup SpoonRocket’s site isn’t down. Demand is just off the...
Above: SpoonRocket Image Credit: Larry Zhou/VentureBeatLast night SpoonRocket’s website couldn’t hold up to a crazy traffic spike for its food deliveries in the San Francisco Bay Area — 100 orders...
View ArticleWriteLaTeX picks up funding to push its collaborative academic writing tool
Above: Kang Xu, a scientist at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.Image Credit: U.S. Army RDECOM/FlickrRemember how painful it was to write your papers in college? Well, it could be 10 times worse:...
View ArticleGoogle Docs now works with uploaded tracked changes from your Word documents
Above: Google DocsImage Credit: GoogleGoogle has given those who work with Microsoft Word another reason to move documents to the cloud. Today, Google announced a new function that converts any tracked...
View ArticleQualifacts raises money to bring its digital health records to more health...
Image Credit: ShutterstockYou probably have heard about hospitals adopting electronic health records for patients. But what about mental health institutions or substance-abust facilities? Qualifacts, a...
View ArticleLinkedIn’s mobile profile revamp is a milestone. Now it’s really serious...
Image Credit: Sheila Scarborough, FlickrWith 43 percent of Web traffic coming from mobile devices, LinkedIn is a fan of mobile. A new look for mobile profiles is the latest proof that LinkedIn wants to...
View ArticleThis video advertising startup just raised $2.8M to do its thing in more places
Above: ViralGainsImage Credit: Screenshot ViralGains, a startup that provides a video-advertising marketplace for publishers and advertisers, is expanding into new markets thanks to the funding it...
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