Big data is enriching the field of language study, but data access needs to be opened up more for academics to scrutinize the figures properly.Do women really talk more than men? How does disfluency vary with sex and age? Have sentences in formal written English become

The privacy of health data has slowly crawled into the crosshairs of both investors and startups as health systems go digital.
Several new companies, like Medable, offering to help health providers make their data private have appeared on the scene. One of them is Canada-based Privacy Analytics, which today said has raised a $3.5M in new funding in a round led by Vanedge Capital. Vanedge joins BDC IT Venture Fund and the Ontario Institute

The Seattle-based company announced  late Thursday at the Postback Conference in Seattle that it has changed its name to Tune. HasOffers employs 200, did $19 million in revenue last year, and was launched in 2009. To date, it has raised a total of $9.6 million in VC, most of it from Accel Partners. For Tune’s chief executive Pete Hamilton, the name change

With its latest major developer platform update, Appcelerator is one step closer to its dream of becoming the next Oracle.The company initially started out offering tools for building mobile apps, but it’s now more focused on giving developers tools to manage and analyze their apps. Today Appcelerator announced the latest version of the Appcelerator

Web developers can find it challenging to fix bugs that users report if they can’t recreate the problem themselves. But FullStory, a company started by a group of ex-Google employees, is building a product that can help with that. FullStory, which is announcing today that it has raised a new $1.2 million, has built a way to replay a person’s interactions with a website or web app by

Japan’s largest restaurant search site selects Nautilus Technologies to provide support for building new MapR-based Hadoop infrastructure.

CliniWorks announced a strategic alliance between its I subsidiary CliniWorks (Israel) Ltd. (“CliniWorks Israel”) and Pfizer Inc. (“Pfizer”) to jointly advance the parties’ respective capabilities in working with healthcare provider organizations to identify and close clinical or quality gaps to improve population health.

Rockwell was right, these days somebody is always watching.

But now, simply watching isn’t enough, so startups are raising increasing amounts of money to develop and sell technologies that allow companies to make sense of all the data they’re collecting and things they’re seeing.