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Census confirms it has raised a $60M Series B on $630M valuation

Census, a startup building a data layer between business operations and a company’s data warehouse, confirmed an Axios story from earlier this week that it has raised a $60 million Series B on a

Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work

Census, a startup that helps businesses sync their customer data from their data warehouses to their various business tools like Salesforce and Marketo, today announced that it has raised a $16 millio

Facebook’s AI team maps the whole population of Africa

A new map of nearly all of Africa shows exactly where the continent's 1.3 billion people live down to the meter, which could help everyone from local governments to aid organizations. The map joins ot

Facebook’s ad targeting tools could be a valuable supplement to census data

Official census forms are an invaluable source for demographic data throughout the country, but for trends that occur on the scale of weeks or months rather than years, they're a bit lacking. But a ne

What Can Be Done About The Growing Broadband Gap In The U.S.?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/bgap.jpg" />There's good news and bad news about broadband coming out of newly released Census data, courtesy of the Commerce Department.

Someone at the Census thinks we should, you know, use technology to improve the Census

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/census.jpg" />We're stretching for stories today, believe me. Hence: it's about time we update the way we conduct the U.S. census. Someon