Funding Daily: Glitter hangovers and green smoothies | VentureBeat | Deals | by Rebecca Grant
Summary
While I enjoyed the opportunity to write groundbreaking articles on other topics, like apps to help you party and startups operating out of the North Pole, I am looking forward to life resuming as usual. The engine analyses all the content generated during events of mass-interest, like the Olympics and Hurricane Sandy, and assesses its relevancy and the significance based on metadata. Using this approach, CrowdOptic claims to be capable of determining the most popular objects in photos and recognizing the hottest crowd activity in real time and. The technology enables mobile devices to interact with POS systems to successfully transmit coupons, gift cards, tickets etc…at a range of retailers. RiskIQ’s technology monitors and neutralizes malware, phishing and spam, cross-site scripting, cookie stuffing, exploit kits, and click fraud.