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One way to get big data skills: Buy a startup

Ravel Data, a promising big data startup best known for its open source graph database called GoldenOrb, has sold its assets to marketing-and-communications firm W2O Group. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but sources say Ravel’s ending wasn’t exactly a happy … Continue reading

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PRO: Startup growth and the new recruiting ecosystem

The recruiting ecosystem is changing, led by professional social networks like LinkedIn and Viadeo and companies like Jobvite and BranchOut, which are building Facebook apps for hiring and career development. This report examines that new ecosystem and how the above … Continue reading

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Meet TempoDB, a database startup with an eye for time

TempoDB, a startup out of Chicago, has built a database-as-a-service offering specifically for time-series data. CEO and co-founder Andrew Cronk presented at the TechStars Cloud demo day earlier this week, and laid out the need for a specialty database for … Continue reading

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Milkroundabout, London’s startup jobs fair, returns

London’s attempt to cement itself as the dominant startup hub in Europe is getting another small boost today, with the news that the third Silicon Milkroundabout jobs fair will take place next month. The event, which was started by a … Continue reading

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Revealed: the reason hyped startup Amen ditched the web

As we reported earlier this week, hot opinion app Amen has just undergone some major changes that generally indicate a quick maturation of its platform. Now it turns out that several of those changes – the addition of comments, the … Continue reading

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