Articles by Deborah Gage
FASTech: How Social Media Could Change Shopping At Wal-Mart
By Deborah Gage Nov. 10, 2011 1:34 am ET Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are changing the way people shop, according to Venky Harinarayan, the new head of @Walmart Labs, and Walmart is trying to take advantage of it.
Business Software Adapts To Get On Employees' Good Side
Corporate software has been notoriously cumbersome compared to consumer software, as anyone who uses Facebook and then goes to the office knows. At the Under The Radar conference last week at Microsoft Corp. in Silicon Valley, the founders of several new companies said their software could make work life more pleasant and productive, both for employees and their corporate IT departments.
Accel Makes Big Commitment To Big Data With $100M Fund
By Deborah Gage Nov. 8, 2011 8:00 am ET Accel Partners has set aside $100 million to invest in start-ups that are trying to harness the power of big data, the firm will announce at the Hadoop World conference in New York this morning, aiming to consolidate its position as one of the earliest investors in these companies as the amount of data generated by companies and government agencies continues to grow.
GE Puts Sensors in Hard-to-Reach Places With 3-D Inking
Making jet engines communicate their vital signs while they're in flight has the potential to make air travel safer. It could signal when a stressed engine part needs replacing, or give clues to how engines could be better designed. But first, those parts have to be made smarter.
Wearable Health Monitors: Do They Work?
The explosion in smart devices—phones, watches, fitness gadgets and the like—has unleashed a wave of apps designed to manage chronic illnesses, detect behavioral diseases and manage pain. Most recently, Apple announced that apps due later this year will allow its Series 4 watches to perform electrocardiogram readings, or ECGs, and notify users of irregular heart rhythms. The problem for consumers is knowing which apps—if any—actually work....
Raising Third Fund, Omaha-based Dundee VC Expands to Chicago
Dundee Venture Capital has raised $20 million toward a $30 million third fund as venture capital activity in the Midwest continues to grow. The firm, based in Omaha, Neb., is also partnering with Lakewest Venture Partners in Chicago and in time will take over Lakewest, according to Dundee founder Mark Hasebroock.
The Search for Women Who Want Cybersecurity Careers
There is a shortage of workers in cybersecurity and a shortage of women in tech jobs. New efforts to get girls interested in cybersecurity are aimed at tackling both of those problems. Boston University, the SANS Institute and nonprofits such as TechGirlz are among the organizations sponsoring camps and contests to teach girls about coding and how to solve cybersecurity problems. Technology firms are getting into the act, too: Palo Alto Networks Inc.
The 10 Biggest Crowdfunding Campaigns: Where Are They Now?
Crowdfunding is usually a pretty modest endeavor. Most people are seeking only a few thousand dollars, and many of them fail to hit even those goals. But then there is the one-in-a-million case. The entrepreneurial idea that not only beats its goal but beats it dozens of times over—or hundreds. Like the father and son who wanted $70,000 to...
Mirantis Catches $75M for Cloud Software
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Software for the Blue-Collar Workforce
Business software companies are turning their attention to the blue-collar workforce. For years, the software industry focused on what it calls knowledge workers, cranking out spreadsheets, word processors, presentation software and communications tools for those who work in offices.
The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail
It looks so easy from the outside. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. But now there is evidence that venture-backed start-ups fail at far higher numbers than the rate the industry usually cites. About three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don't return investors' capital,...
Your ‘smart’ appliances may bring more hassles to your life
More devices in our homes, such as refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and toasters, are connected to the internet. Those connections promise convenience, such as software updates that can improve the product’s performance. But they also pose security challenges for consumers.
Your ‘smart’ appliances may bring more hassles to your life
More devices in our homes, such as refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and toasters, are connected to the internet. Those connections promise convenience, such as software updates that can improve the product’s performance. But they also pose security challenges for consumers.
Your ‘smart’ appliances may bring more hassles to your life
More devices in our homes, such as refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and toasters, are connected to the internet. Those connections promise convenience, such as software updates that can improve the product’s performance. But they also pose security challenges for consumers.
8 ways to reduce the big threat posed by your refrigerator
More devices in our homes, such as refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and toasters, are connected to the internet. Those connections promise convenience, such as software updates that can improve the product’s performance. But they also pose security challenges for consumers.
Grand Old Purchase: Republican-Run Companies Do Better With Acquisitions
Do Republican and non-Republican chief executives run their companies differently? When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, it would seem they do. According to a recent study, companies run by Republicans make fewer acquisitions. But when they do, those acquisitions tend to boost the value of their companies in the long run, while acquisitions by companies that non-Republicans run tend to lower the value of their companies.
Exercise Has a Cascade of Positive Effects, Study Finds
Exercise has been shown to protect against diabetes, stroke and several other diseases and to improve our moods. But does it also make us more likely to engage in other activities? Do people who exercise tend to have better social lives or achieve more of their goals?
Is It a Lie or the Truth? Investment Pros Can’t Tell
If you’re counting on investment professionals to sniff out financial fraud, here’s some advice: Don’t. Indeed, investment professionals, according to a recent test designed by faculty of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, are so poor at distinguishing truth-tellers from liars that they might as well flip a coin.
NeonLabs Seeded to Lure People to Click on Videos
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Intel Invests in Former Big Data Competitor
Intel Corp. and Cloudera Inc., competitors in a fast-growing area of business software, are joining forces through a deal that would make Intel the startup's largest investor. Financial details weren't disclosed, but Intel's stake comes after a $160 million Cloudera financing earlier this month. Cloudera's current valuation is more than $1 billion. The deal signals widening interest in Hadoop, a program that helps break up...
What We’re Reading
By Devin G. Pope in The New York Times As colleges release admissions decisions for the class of 2021 Devin G. Pope, professor of behavioral science at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, explores how admissions officers can use data beyond cumulative grade point average to better predict student success. Daniel Ruston, Senior Product Designer at Google, offers his perspective on designing for emotion and creating meaningful experiences.
Facility with numbers is only part of what goes into being a data scientist
The path to becoming a data scientist is not a clear one. And that’s by design. Consider the data-science team at Alpine Data, a San Francisco software startup that helps companies analyze their data to make predictions about their businesses. It includes a former marketing manager, a former physicist, a former operations researcher and a former business consultant. Helping the team as well is a former mathematician who was hired as a software engineer.
How to Get Venture Capital to Places Left Behind
Silicon Valley continues to attract more venture capital and more startups than anywhere in the U.S., but Steve Case says that has to change. The AOL co-founder and chief executive of investment firm Revolution LLC says “everybody, everywhere” should get a shot at the American dream.
Gage’s Take: Confessions of a Veteran Tech Reporter
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Apttus Raises $88M, Maintains Billion-Dollar Valuation
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Sequoia Leads $51M Investment in Druva
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NS1 Raising More Than $20M to Bolster DNS
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Gage’s Take: Dark Clouds Over Billion Dollar Startup Club
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Metromile Raises $191.5M to Expand Nationally
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Thalmic Labs Raises $120M To Help Humans Interact With Machines
Thalmic Labs Inc., which developed an armband that lets people control computers with gestures, raised $120 million as the company develops new forms of human-to-machine interaction. The Series B round was led by a current investor, Intel Capital, along with the Amazon Alexa Fund and Fidelity Canada Asset Management.
Gage’s Take: The Party’s Over In Silicon Valley
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Billion Dollar-Valued Mode Media Shuts Down
Mode Media Corp., a life-style content network that had been valued at $1 billion, abruptly shut down its operations Thursday. The Brisbane, Calif.-based company informed employees at a staff-wide meeting on Thursday morning, according to several people with knowledge of it.
Packet Raises $9.4M to Bridge Public, Private Clouds
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GitLab Raises $20M as Market for Software Development Tools Heats Up
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Intel Capital, Sports Owners Bank $12M on WSC Sports
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Gage’s Take: A Startup Retrenches, and Hard Lessons Are Learned
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Shawn Carolan Returns to Lead Consumer Team at Menlo Ventures
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Gage’s Take: Midwest Aims to Rival Silicon Valley for Venture-Capital Dollars
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Compass Raises $75M At $1B Valuation
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Cisco to buy software-container startup ContainerX
Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -0.13% said it would acquire ContainerX Inc., an 18-month-old startup that manages software containers for corporate customers. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. ContainerX had raised $2.7 million from General Catalyst Partners and Greylock Partners. Containers provide a way to package and manage software applications so they can run across different data centers and clouds, and be scaled up and down as needed.
Midwest Gets Boost as Rev1 Ventures, Drive Capital Raise New Funds
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Runnable Adds President, Board Member
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Nutanix to Acquire PernixData and Calm.io
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Gage’s Take: A Bet to Unlock Mysteries of the Brain
Too many aspects of the human brain’s circuitry remain a mystery. Since 1999, venture firms have poured $16.8 billion into brain-related startups, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Yet truly understanding a wide range of neurological functions and illnesses is still beyond our grasp, a paradox that some entrepreneurs are determined to erase....
Big Data Security Startup BlueTalon Raises $16M
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Scoro Emerges With $1.9M to Organize Work
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Gage’s Take: Venture-Capital Data Refutes Some VC Myths
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Data Manager Rubrik Collects $61M in Down Round
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PocketSuite Emerges With $1.6M to Help Gig Workers
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Gage’s Take: Do Venture Capitalists Deserve Tax Breaks?
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have vowed to close what Mr. Trump has called a “special-interest loophole” in the tax code—carried interest, which lets venture capitalists treat the income they make on profitable investments as capital gains so they can pay lower taxes. The National Venture Capital Association has been fighting to preserve carried interest since at least 2007, when Mrs. Clinton called for its elimination when...
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