Meet the fighter pilot trying to crack the code of NFL data
After 15 years flying F-18 fighter jets for the U.S. Navy, Brian Burke probably knows more about aerial combat than anyone you’ll ever meet. It’s also likely — maybe even more so — that he knows more...
View ArticleBeyondCore raises $9M to automate data analysis
BeyondCore, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company whose software automatically analyzes data sets to identify the strongest correlations between variables, has raised a $9 million series A round of venture...
View ArticleQuantcast: Social media huge in mobile online discovery
Social media companies have been gushing about approaching their “mobile moment” — when mobile will overtake the desktop as the form of interaction — and 2014 may be the perfect time to strike. Whether...
View ArticleForrester: No, Facebook doesn’t have a “teen problem”
A report released Tuesday by Forrester, which surveyed more than 4,500 people between the ages of 12 and 17, says that Facebook doesn’t have the “teen problem” stemming from a study in 2013 that...
View ArticleFacebook courts developers to compete with rivals in Asia
Monday Facebook's mobile app server company Parse released statistics on its biggest user growth. Its adoption in Asia has skyrocketed. Facebook courts developers to compete with rivals in Asia...
View ArticleGoogle is funding “an artificial intelligence for data science”
Google announced on Tuesday that it is funding a project, called Automatic Statistician, that bills itself as "an artificial intelligence for data science." Google is funding “an artificial...
View ArticleHere’s how Sidecar took the lead in the carpool race
It’s been four months since Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar officially launched their carpool features. And although all three rideshare companies have marketed their new carpool feature to the masses, one of...
View ArticleTwitter now lets you track your tweet’s impact on-the-go
Twitter’s analytics tool, which tells you how many people have seen your tweets, among other things, is now on iOS. When you’re out and about, if you’re dying to see whether your latest quip went viral...
View ArticleHas Snapchat peaked? Comscore numbers suggest flat growth in 2014
Snapchat’s user growth seems to have stalled toward the end of 2014, according to new Comscore numbers I obtained on Friday. As you can see from the below graph, Snapchat hit a peak around March 2014...
View ArticleThe New Enterprise Strategy Problem – Too Many Options
In the good old days, when most of today’s most senior executives got their business education, only three ways to acquire sustainable competitive advantage were on offer. At least that was the theory...
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