Tidemark is a new company in the business intelligence – analytics space just coming out of stealth and announcing a big chunk of funding.
Check out the articles from ZDNet, Techcrunch, and Venture Beat. Marketwatch has an article abotu Tidemark’s partnership with Cloudera.
Trooval is a San Francisco Bay Area startup helping its customers identify consumers who are likely to spend money and those that won’t. The methods come out of Las Vegas where the Trooval CEO spent 15 years working at Harrah’s Casino. The predictions are facilitated through the cloud and take advantage of publicly available consumer data and the connection is made via API. If it all works out, users of Trooval’s services should see higher overall customer lifetime values.
Check out the Techcrunch article for more.
Palantir Technologies has raised $70 million in new funds. Palantir was founded by former Paypal employees and Stanford computer scientists. Their technology is designed to make working with large volumes of easy. Right now they are focused on the government and finance markets. Check out the Techcrunch post.
A few former Google employees have launched a new startup called Zillabyte to help users analyze lots of data. Their idea was to give other people access to the type of tools they had as Google employees. You’ll have to sign up on their site to get an invite if you want to see what they’re up to. One of the co-founders, Peter Harrington, is the author of Machine Learning in Action.
Here’s an article from Techcrunch.
The free web analytics system from Google, Google Analytics, has gotten a few updates. They now have a real-time dashboard so you can see what is happening on your site right now. And for Google Analytics users who need more than what’s been available for free, Google now offers a premium tier with phone support, SLAs, and increased data. Read the Techcrunch article or VentureBeat article.
Neo Technology has raised $10.6M to aid their development of a NoSQL database. Check out the Techcrunch article.
Here’s a video from Google about their search algorithm and here’s a Techcrunch article with more info.
Check out this Techcrunch article describing camera recommendation site, Snapsort, and their plans to expand into other verticals thanks to some new investment.
There’s a new company specializing in providing analytics specific for games – gameanalytics.com. It’s a set of tools that game developers can use to keep track of exactly how people are playing their games and that can then be used to improved the gameplay or marketing of the game. Where do players experience problems? What do they do? How long does it take them? Check out the techcrunch article
The travel industry has had these types of services for a while. Kayak.com and others allow you to track the trends of a fare from place to place and then highlights if the price is likely to trend up or down in the future. Now there’s a similar service for electronics devices (cameras, laptops, tvs) called decide.com. In addition to predicting the future price, the service also highlights when new models will be released. Read the techcrunch article.
