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Perrin Kerravala CB Insights mini review: Part 2
8th March 2012

In Part 1 of this review, we looked at the general features of CB Insights, a platform that provides profiles of investors, companies and funds, and includes basic analytic capabilities. In this part, we’ll drill down into functionality.

Update: A new review of this product is available here »

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Africa S. Hands Weather watching via Twitter
7th March 2012

Last week’s powerful storms that devastated parts of the Midwest and South USA were widely reported in real time on Twitter and other social media outlets. Create a Twitter list of these accounts, and others specific to your organisation and location, for up to the minute information.

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Perrin Kerravala CB Insights mini review: Part 1
7th March 2012

CB Insights is an information aggregator on high-growth, private companies in diverse industries, such as healthcare, technology, green tech and more. The platform provides profiles of investors, companies and funds, and includes basic analytic capabilities.

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Martin Belam Do you have a social media risk strategy?
7th March 2012

A recent study has suggested that many UK companies have a "chaotic" social media policy. Where can you find resources to help mitigate social media risk to your organisation?

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Penny Crossland FT.com to launch rapid response news site
7th March 2012

The FT's mobile strategy sees continued success with its popular HTML5 app winning an award at the recent Mobile World Congress. Also, new to the FT's digital initiative is its "live news desk" providing FT.com users with breaking news in the financial and business worlds.

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Penny Crossland Drop in traffic highlights problems at TechCrunch
7th March 2012

TechCrunch now seems a shadow of its former self with traffic having dropped significantly. Management differences have caused problems but it is also questionable as to whether cutting edge blogs can actually survive within large media companies.

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Heidi Longaberger FINIF mini review: Part 2
7th March 2012

In Part 1 of this review, we looked at the basic premise behind FINIF, a financial informatics platform.

FINIF is not only unique in that it is one of a very few in the financial sentiment analysis niche...

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Robin Neidorf New login features
6th March 2012

Enabling easier access to full-text articles, product reviews and other premium content has been a priority for FreePint. Following development work based on subscriber feedback, we're now able to do so.

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Robin Neidorf Categories: What's your pleasure?
6th March 2012

Making relevant information visible is essential for any business, and FreePint is no exception. We've recently introduced categories of content, designed to help readers quickly identify and access the FreePint Family articles that are most useful to them.

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Heidi Longaberger FINIF mini review: Part 1
6th March 2012

FINIF bills itself as an informatics platform that specialises in financial sentiment analysis and market chatter. The technology provides the capability to analyse financial data, news and opinion from sources such as Twitter, reputable news providers and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings.

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