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  • June 5th, 2013

    App Annie’s Mobile App Intelligence Data Gets A Major Upgrade – Now Available On Web, Updated Daily & Integrated With Tableau

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    The mobile app ecosystem changes quickly, even overnight at times. That’s why today mobile app analytics service App Annie is expanding its paid App Intelligence service to include daily estimates for downloads and revenues, in addition to the weekly and monthly data it already offered, while also bringing its service to the web. → Read More

    June 4th, 2013

    Zynga Co-founder’s Junyo Is Using Big Data To Help EdTech Companies Better Understand What Schools Really Need

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    In 2011, Steve Schoettler left Zynga, the company he had co-founded four years earlier, to devote himself to a new project, called Junyo. With interest in education technology beginning to take hold, Shoettler and his co-founders at Junyo set out to leverage the growing capabilities of Big Data tools and analytics to tackle some of the deep-seated problems in K-12 education. Chief among those was… → Read More

    May 25th, 2013

    Reminder: Google Buzz Is Still Dead, Your Data Will Be Moved To Drive, And They Thank You For Using It

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    Google Buzz, the social service that Google launched way back in 2010 and then killed in 2011, reminded former users that their data still lives in and will be moved over to your Google Drive accounts in July. That’s lovely. → Read More

    May 13th, 2013

    At I/O, Google Will Be Tracking Things Like Noise Level And Air Quality With Hundreds Of Arduino-Based Sensors

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    If you’re attending Google I/O this week, you will be a part of an experiment from the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. On its blog today, the team outlined its plan to gather a bunch of environmental information happening around you as you meander around the Moscone Center. → Read More

    April 19th, 2013

    Apple Keeps Anonymized Voice Data Related To Virtual Assistant Siri For Up To 2 Years

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    Apple’s Siri voice assistant on iOS devices retains information to help the company generate better and more accurate results in the analysis process that takes place at its remote servers. The company has never previously revealed exactly how long it keeps that data or how exactly it works, but now Wired has learned from an Apple spokesperson exactly how Siri IDs and store data, as well as for… → Read More

    April 4th, 2013

    Social Data Leader Gnip Rolls Out Access To Six New Public APIs Including Reddit, Instagram And Bitly

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    Gnip has found itself a sweet spot in partnering with startups who make data available via APIs. The company currently has access to Twitter and Tumblr’s firehoses, and has announced today that it will be making the publicly available data of Reddit, Instagram, bitly, Stack Overflow, Panoramio and Plurk available to its customers who rely on Gnip to do social reporting. Additionally… → Read More

    April 2nd, 2013

    ElectNext Raises $1.3M To Provide Contextual Political Data To News Sites

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    If knowledge is a door to information, data is the key. When you’re talking about politics and government, information is extremely important to those who are making decisions on who to vote for and what legislation to get behind or block. Today, a company called ElectNext has raised a seed round of $1.3M led by Brooklyn Bridge Ventures along with other strategic investors like Liberty City… → Read More

    March 31st, 2013

    Data Is Not Killing Creativity, It’s Just Changing How We Tell Stories

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    I keep seeing this topic push up about how data is affecting creativity. Some say we are losing our sense of narration and storytelling. It’s not this at all. We are just experiencing a shift that other civilizations have faced when the traditional means for storytelling transform to give a sense of the changing times facing society. That does not mean a rejection of the narrative form. The… → Read More

    March 18th, 2013

    Keen On… Privacy: Why Giving Us Control Of Our Online Data Is The Next Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity [TCTV]

    It’s often been said that we, as users, are “the product” of networks like Google or Facebook. But there is now a new wave of privacy centric start-ups seeking to give us back control of our personal data. One of these is Abine which boasts a suite of products that protect our online privacy. Data protection is the “new frontier”, Abine’s CEO Bill Kerrigan, who describes his startup as “the online… → Read More

    March 2nd, 2013

    The Story Behind Qualtrics, The Next Great Enterprise Company

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    Editor’s note: Derek Andersen is the founder of Startup Grind, a 35-city event series hosted in 15-countries that educates, inspires, and connects entrepreneurs. He also founded Commonred and is ex-Electronic Arts.

    I met Ryan Smith about nine years ago in a college apartment in Provo Utah. We were both attending school, and after asking him what he was working on he replied, “I’m building→ Read More

    February 19th, 2013

    BrightBytes Grabs $750K To Help Schools Measure The Real Impact Of Technology On Student Learning

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    BrightBytes has been on a mission to “improve the way the world learns through data” — and, in turn, to help schools solve their technological woes. To do that, the San Francisco-based learning analytics startup provides schools with the tools and services they need to be able to more effectively measure the impact of technology on the learning process. → Read More

    January 19th, 2013

    Open Stack, Open Compute And How Opening Up Is The Only Way To Reach The Data Heavens

    “Open” this, “open” that: It seems like everything is “open” these days. Well hello, people, Bill Gates’ gravy boat has run aground. It’s time to get out the Starship and fly in those open clouds. → Read More

    January 16th, 2013

    AT&T Now Offers FaceTime Over Cellular For Any Customer With A Tiered Data Plan

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    AT&T announced on its consumer blog today that it will finally allow FaceTime over cellular available to all customers on a tiered data plan, after previously offering it first only to those with a Mobile Share plan and then later to those with both LTE devices and tiered plans. Took them long enough. → Read More

    December 17th, 2012

    Polar Hits 1 Million Votes, Illustrates How To Develop A Truly Successful Mobile-First App

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    We told you about the super-simple and super-sticky voting app Polar for iOS a few weeks ago, and since then, the app has taken off quite nicely. When you use it, you’ll instantly see how people are exploring the platform to learn what they think about the things that they’re interested in. Sure, it’s a “polling” app, but calling it just that is selling it short. It’s quite addictive in a “Hot Or… → Read More

    December 16th, 2012

    A Few Reasons Why You’d Want To Download All Of Your Tweets

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    Today, we learned that Twitter made good on its promise to start letting its users download all of their tweets from the beginning of their history with the service. For many geeks, there is excitement about this. It means that Twitter is showing how truly “open” they can be when it comes to your data and information, finally catching up with companies like Facebook and Google, which both allow… → Read More

    December 10th, 2012

    Singly Launches “App Fabric” Platform For Developers To Speed Up Integrations With Dozens Of Services

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    Singly, a startup aimed at simplifying the integration of third-party services in both web and mobile applications, is today launching its platform into open beta. Until now, the company has been in private beta testing with around 3,000 developers who are using Singly in some 250 applications, including TimeHop and Geekli.st, as well as Mural.ly, SalesLoft, Cloudmine, Farmstand, AdoptTogether… → Read More

    December 5th, 2012

    Social Voting App Polar Has Had Over A Half Million Votes In Its First Eleven Days

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    Hot-or-not is a site that most of us who have used the web are familiar with. Sit down at your desk, look at pictures and profiles of a bunch of people, and respond to them with an easy voting interaction. That type of service has been popular over the years, but with the surge of mobile coming fast and furious the past few years, there are opportunities to take it to the next level.

    Today, I… → Read More

    December 4th, 2012

    Social Data Provider Gnip Announces “Plugged In To Gnip” Partner Program

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    For companies that want to use social data from services like Twitter, Gnip is one of the “resellers” if you will. The company has been a trusted partner of Twitter, WordPress, Disqus, and most recently, Tumblr, positioning itself as the go-to marketplace for social data to be used for marketing, analytics and sentiment analysis.

    Today, Gnip announced a new partner program called “Plugged In To→ Read More

    December 4th, 2012

    Karma Launches Its $79 4G Mobile Hotspot And Pay-As-You-Go Data Plan That Reward Users For Sharing Their Bandwidth

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    The founders behind Karma (no, not that Karma) think that there’s something fundamentally broken in the market for mobile providers. And they’re hardly alone. So, the TechStars grads set out to create a new format, one that eschews the traditional subscription model for a pay-as-you-go approach to mobile bandwidth.

    In an effort to realize their vision of providing anyone and everyone with a… → Read More

    November 15th, 2012

    3 Pillars Of The New Business World: APIs, Identity, and Data

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    At the Defrag conference in Broomfield, Colo., this week, three themes came in the forefront: APIs, identity and data. The themes reflect the tenor of the times, which can be summed up in the turmoil at Microsoft this week: Microsoft President Steve Sinofsky left the company. → Read More

    November 15th, 2012

    Gnip Now Serves Over 100B Social Activities Per Month, Takes Tumblr Partnership To Next Level

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    Gnip is an interesting company. It might not be extremely sexy or one that gets a lot of attention in mainstream press, let alone tech blogs. But it’s one that provides data from social services for a cost. For example, Gnip is a partner with Twitter in sharing its firehose of data for customers who want to know what people are saying about their brand or company. → Read More

    October 22nd, 2012

    Twilio For Education Data, Clever, Lands $3M From Kevin Rose, Mike Maples & Ashton Kutcher, Now In 2K Schools

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    Clever, a graduate of Y Combinator’s most recent batch of startups, launched in late June to bring a bit of Twilio’s vision to education. During their time at Y Combinator, the accelerator’s co-founder Paul Graham challenged the team to integrate with 40 schools by the end of the program. Clever far-surpassed that goal, announcing this morning that over 2,000 K-12 schools have now adopted its… → Read More

    October 19th, 2012

    Apple Hits The Oregon Trail To Seek Out Greater Data Center Capacity, Likely Won’t Die Of Dysentery

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    Apple has reportedly begun work on a huge new data center facility in Prineville, Oregon, according to local reports from the Oregonian (as spotted this morning by Wired). The first phase of the project will reportedly cost $68 million, and this is just the latest in a string of data center initiatives. But Apple data demands are set to skyrocket, and the company needs to prepare. → Read More

    October 16th, 2012

    Healthrageous Lands $6.5M To Help You Take Control Of Your Health (With Data)

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    Founded in 2010, Boston-based Healthrageous has developed a platform that helps individuals, employers, health providers and everyone in between, to prevent and manage chronic health conditions. The startup’s platform collects biometric data from users various health-tracking devices, which it combines with information on their personal preferences to assist in setting goals, action plans and to… → Read More

    October 2nd, 2012

    Locu Launches To Merchants: Now Local Businesses Can Update Once To Publish Prices To Web, Mobile & Facebook

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    Locu, a Boston-based local business data provider born out of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s lab at MIT, is today officially launching its commerce dashboard for merchants. The company, which raised a $4 million Series A round led by General Catalyst in April, offers a proprietary system that can extract structured data about local businesses from their not-so-structured websites. Locu’s initial focus… → Read More

    October 1st, 2012

    GigaOm’s Structure Europe Conference Will Dive Deep Into The Cloud

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    We don’t often try to get the word out about conferences put on by other blogs here at TechCrunch, but we’re about to. Because reasons. Namely: 1) We, as TechCrunch, will probably never ever ever, ever ever host a European cloud-computing conference and someone sure as heck needs to. 2) The folks at Gigaom are our friends, particularly founder, thought leader and king of the kind of industry… → Read More

    September 30th, 2012

    Data Markets: The Emerging Data Economy

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    Editor’s note: Gil Elbaz is an entrepreneur and pioneer of natural language technology. In 1998, he co-founded Applied Semantics, which developed contextual advertising products, including ASI’s AdSense. In 2003, Google acquired ASI, and after a four-year stint at Google, Gil found Factual in 2007. Follow him on Twitter

    The term data market brings to mind a traditional structure in which… → Read More

    September 28th, 2012

    Startup Success Requires The Drive For Data

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    Editor’s note: Jeff Ma is the founder of tenXer, a startup that provides tools to help people better understand their performance, progress, and productivity at work. Previously, he helped start GolfSpan.com, CircleLending, and Citizen Sports. Follow him on Twitter.

    The first thing you learn when you start playing Blackjack is something called basic strategy - a decision matrix that tells… → Read More

    September 23rd, 2012

    Here’s What Goes Into Making Google Maps, Will Apple Be Able To Recalculate?

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    Everywhere you turned last week, there was another story about iOS 6 Maps. Some feel like it’s a great new direction for Apple, but people like me feel like we’re left with an ugly experience that shouldn’t have been introduced to the public in its current state. → Read More

    September 23rd, 2012

    Speed’s Other Needs

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    Editor’s note: Michael Weinberg is a staff attorney at Public Knowledge, an organization that preserves the openness of the Internet and the public’s access to knowledge; promotes creativity through balanced copyright; and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully. Michael focuses primarily on copyright, issues before the FCC and emerging technologies… → Read More