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Signal AI, a ‘decision augmentation’ startup, raises $50M for a platform that extracts insights from the internet and other public content
Signal AI, an artificial intelligence startup that trawls the vast sea of internet and other publicly available data to provide organizations with sentiment insights and other information to make bett
Mmhmm, it’s the most ridiculous story we’ve ever heard
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Danny and Alex were on deck this week, with Grace on the recordi
Dataminr’s first ever acquisition is UK-based geovisualization platform WatchKeeper
When it comes to detecting events transpiring anywhere in the world, few companies hold a candle to Dataminr. Founded in 2009, the company has raised more than $1 billion over the past 12 years (inclu
Dataminr raises $475M on a $4.1B valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data
Significant funding news today for one of the startups making a business out of tapping huge, noisy troves of publicly available data across social media, news sites, undisclosed filings and more. Dat
Decrypted: As tech giants rally against Hong Kong security law, Apple holds out
It’s not often Silicon Valley gets behind a single cause. Supporting net neutrality was one, reforming government surveillance another. Last week, Big Tech took up its latest: halting any cooper
Dataminr announces new tool to assist first responders
This is the age of the citizen journalist where people on the street armed with a smartphone and a Twitter account are often the first on the scene of an accident, fire or other emergency. These folks
Hear Dataminr and NYC officials talk about using social media in emergency situations
These days, it’s probably more common to hear about news breaking on Twitter or Facebook than from a broadcast news network or the radio. In an age where eyewitness news has taken on a whole new
UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown
The UK government has criticized Twitter for restricting police and intelligence agency access to data which it says could be used to identify terrorist plots, according to the Telegraph newspaper.
Twitter cuts Dataminr access for law enforcement fusion centers
Facing pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, Twitter announced that it will limit the data access it formerly provided to domestic surveillance hubs. Twitter’s longstanding policy h
FBI will receive ‘limited’ Twitter firehose access through Dataminr, but has to watch its step
The FBI has publicly disclosed its intent to get at the "mission critical" Twitter firehose through third party monitoring service Dataminr. But Twitter, which has a 5 percent stake in Dataminr and of
The barbell effect of machine learning
Machine learning will have a barbell effect on the technology landscape. On one hand, it will democratize basic intelligence through the commoditization and diffusion of services like image recognitio
Dataminr was in an unpaid pilot with intel agencies when Twitter ended the deal
We’re heading into summer, but the chilly relationship between government bodies and private tech businesses is growing frostier by the day. In the latest development, it has emerged that Twit
Dataminr Confirms $130M Raise To Take Its Social Media Data Analysis To New Verticals
Dataminr, a startup that parses and crawls the vast glut of real-time informatio posted on social media sites like Twitter to extract key developments for public safety, bankers and news organizations
CNN And Twitter Partner With Dataminr To Create News Tool For Journalists
CNN is hosting a press event today to announce a partnership with Twitter and social analytics company Dataminr, resulting in a new tool called Dataminr For News.
Dataminr CEO Ted Bailey said the g