Another startup, PredictionIO, is trying to make machine learning child’s play (or at least developer’s play) with open source source software it says can have programmers launching recommendation engines and other… Read more »
A Seattle-based machine learning startup called GraphLab is releasing the first official version of its software, which the company hopes can democratize an historically difficult space. Called Create, the software is… Read more »
The amount of data that Airbnb has about users and their accommodation preferences has grown to the point where the company believes it can start recommending trips to them before they… Read more »
IBM has made another investment out of the $100 million it has set aside to fund companies using the Watson cognitive computing system, this time investing an undisclosed amount of money… Read more »
A startup called Boostable is helping individual sellers in large marketplaces like Etsy and Airbnb target potential customers on sites such as Facebook. It’s yet another company trying to package up… Read more »
Streaming music service Spotify has acquired The Echo Nest and its graph of musical data spanning more than 35 million songs and 2 million artists. It’s an easy way for Spotify… Read more »
An e-commerce startup called Reflektion has raised an $8 million series B round of venture capital for its technology that helps retailers personalize the online shopping experience for consumers. Intel Capital… Read more »
Cloudera is working on an open source project called Oryx that aims bring machine learning to Hadoop in a way that previous attempts such as Apache Mahout could not. Read more »
Although techniques such as machine learning are taking off in the e-commerce and retail spaces as a way to display better recommendations or optimize product presentation, the smart money is still… Read more »
Facebook is launching a standalone app called Paper that takes content from the network and turns it into a newspaper-style platform, driven partly by algorithms and partly by human editors. It… Read more »