Nor is Berlin's Rocket Internet, one of Europe's most successful Web companies, very impressed.
Over the past few years, SXSW has built buzz around the hot new consumer web companies.
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Cloudera is aiming to bring that kind of big data analysis to non-Web companies.
Other Web companies that are still closely held, such as Twitter Inc. and Dropbox Inc.
All successful web companies have adopted this diversified approach: Amazon, Ebay, Google, Twitter, Facebook.
With the recent choppy performance by some Web companies, several investors said there's more attention on consumer-electronics makers.
Robert Callahan, director of state government affairs at TechAmerica, said Web companies already seek to protect users' privacy.
Web companies are fun, because they usually have a very fast release cycle.
Most of Joyent's customers are small Web companies, including many Facebook applications developers.
It will give investors even more appetite for the shares of web companies that produce apps for social networks.
These two leading web companies combine for more than 1 out of every 3 minutes spent on mobile apps.
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In web companies, data scientists typically provide direct input on the questions to ask and analysis that needs to be done.
The data that is being collected is both what is easy to collect and also what web companies consider worth collecting.
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The ironic thing is that LinkedIn makes money in a variety of different ways, whereas many social web companies rely purely on advertising.
But the battle also demonstrates how adept the Web companies are at using the Internet, and particularly social media, to set the agenda.
The Sales Team might be a Yahoo sales team, but their function will be very similar to teams at other large web companies.
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Venture capital for consumer electronics remains scant compared with the plethora of cash available for Web companies, but investments into hardware start-ups are rising.
He thinks the new Web companies will adopt Typesafe because it is designed to optimize the technologies on which they build their initial applications.
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The result is a very big inventory of early stage consumer web companies out there, looking for follow-on financing, strategic deals, customers, and exits.
Yelp is looking to add to the likes of Groupon and LinkedIn, which were the largest of the social web companies to list this year.
Yahoo and other Web companies are struggling to produce or acquire the kind of programming that would encourage advertisers to spend more of their budgets online.
Tessler knew something about this stuff, as a for-mer cochairman of Data Broadcasting and cofounder of CBSMarketWatch.com, both of which provide financial services to Web companies.
Techniques developed to deal with interlinked, heterogenous data acquired by massive web companies will be our main tools as the rest of us transition to digital-native operation.
That 18-month journey underscores the frenzied state of the tech investing game, where even the smallest Web companies can develop global followings in a matter of weeks.
As many web companies, particularly start-ups, pick up the pieces today and try to assess damage, there are no real answers yet for what happened and why.
Remember, the benchmark is Consumer Web companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter, which deal with hundreds of millions of human data-creating nodes, amounting to petabytes of flow.
Tessler knew something about this stuff, as a former cochairman of Data Broadcasting and a cofounder of CBS MarketWatch.com, both of which provide financial services to web companies.
Attrition among the private consumer web companies will be high.
He emphasized that Spamhaus doesn't have the power to block e-mail from anyone -- they merely make their data available for service providers and other Web companies to use.
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