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July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now SpaceCurve, a startup that lives to suss out massive amounts of location, social, sensor, and timeline data, has just raised $10 million. This round, led by Triage Ventures, is the company’s second institutional round of funding. Since it was founded, the startup has taken a total of $17.3 million, including a $3.5 million Series A last summer. In the company’s own words, “SpaceCurve’s geospatial-temporal database and graph analysis tools effortlessly handle the scale and complexity of geospatial, temporal, sensor network, social graph and other large data to create real-time models and immediately actionable intelligence.” Translated, that means this startup is trying to organize and make useful just about every kind of data imaginable. Customers who use the SpaceCurve platform are, in the words of a Triage Ventures partner, “pushing the current limits of big data technologies” by analyzing not only large volumes of data, but data that appears at high velocities — stuff like checkins and sensor data that are constantly being updated by nodes all around the globe. For example, SpaceCurve announced in February that it had set a record for real-time big data performance by crunching location-aware tweet records, averaging 2,500 bytes in size, at a rate equal to millions of records per second, hundreds of billions of records per day, and petabytes of data per day. Customers and potential customers, the startup says, are in industries such as mobile, social media, financial trading, energy, communications, transportation, government, and similarly big-scale markets. The Seattle-based company was founded in 2009 by J. Andrew Rogers, who has previous experience in dealing with big data from time spent on Google Maps and the UK’s Meteorological Office. The team includes former employees of IBM and Microsoft. Image credit: Shutterstock Filed under: Deals .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat { width:278px; margin:0px 0px 10px 20px; padding:10px; float:right; border:1px solid #e4e4e4; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color:#000; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat .logo-date-wrap { width:100%; display:block; float:left; margin-bottom:8px; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat img { float:left; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat .date-location { float:right; font-size:12px; line-height:14px; text-align:center; padding-left:7px; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:3px; border-left:1px solid #e6e6e6; color:#585a5b; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat .cta { display:block; clear:both; width:100%; border-radius:5px; border:1px solid #1864b1; color:#fff; text-shadow: 0px -1px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); text-align:center; text-decoration:none; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:17px; padding:4px 0px 6px 0px; background: #1f80e4; background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%, #1862ae 100%); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#1f80e4), color-stop(100%,#1862ae)); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#1f80e4', endColorstr='#1862ae',GradientType=0 ); }

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Rats living stressed lives and taking fluoxetine (a.k.a Prozac or Sarafem) undergo long term increases in body weight. SAN FRANCISCO?- Short-term use of antidepressants, combined with stress and a high-fat diet, is associated with long-term increases in body weight, a new animal study finds. The results were presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. "Our study suggests that short-term exposure to stress and antidepressants, rather than a high-calorie, high-fat diet alone, leads to long-term body weight gain, accompanied with increased bone and spleen weights," said study lead author Suhyun Lee, a PhD candidate in the medical sciences at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. What I...

2013 was almost bound to be disappointing given the sky-high standards set by the 2012 World Champion San Francisco Giants. Coming off of a postseason where everything came together—the rotation, bullpen, offense—the 2013 squad had high expectations. And with a lineup returning MVP Buster Posey, ace Matt Cain and two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, the Giants were bursting with potential. However, struggling starting pitching and periodically anemic offense left the Giants barely over .500 more than a third of the way into the season. The National League West as a whole has not done much better, and the Giants are in third place, 1.5 games behind the division-leading Arizona Diamondbacks. The Giants have managed to stay in contention, despite major disappointments from key players.Begin Slideshow

A confession: reviewing Dagger Beach almost feels like a conflict of interest. Not that Im friends with John Vanderslice beyond the Facebook realm weve spoken only once, a phone interview that carried on well over an hour as the songwriter drove from San Francisco to L.A. in an afternoon. But having followed his output closely since 2004s masterful Cellar Door and the following years politically-charged Pixel Revolt , its hard not to feel like I know the guy more intimately than many of my actual friends. Vanderslices music is nothing if Read MoreBlog: Consequence Of SoundRelated: [Album Review] John K. Samson- ProvincialNOISE POP 2012 // REVIEW: John Vanderslice / Thao at Bottom of the HillAlbum Review: John Blek & The Rats - Leave Your Love at the DoorAlbum Review: John Talabot INAlbum Review: John Talabot fIN

Alonzo King *When you talk to Alonzo King you get the feeling he actually knows the meaning of life. His take on life, love and happiness is like a cool breeze on a hot summer day. When you talk to King, no matter how the conversation begins, it ends with his declaration that life is good. Although he won’t reveal his age, “No never. I think age is another one of those monikers that doesn’t give you any real information on people,” it’s more than obvious that King has lived long enough to gain and share great insight and wisdom. Over the years he has put what he’s learned into the form of dance. The results have been nothing less than awe-inspiring. Thirty years ago he founded LINES Ballet, a stellar dance company based in San Francisco, but lauded worldwide. King, the company’s artistic director, has created works for companies throughout the world including the Royal Swedish Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theater of Harlem, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Hong Kong Ballet, North Carolina Dance Theatre, and the Washington Ballet. On June 21-23, the company brings its magic and movement to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as part of the 10th anniversary season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center.  Hubbard Street Dance Chicago + Alonzo King LINES Ballet features two of the most renowned dance companies in America who will join together in an unprecedented collaboration that combines classical ballet with contemporary styles, highlighting the emotional nuances of movement. Hubbard is currently celebrating its 35th season in 2012 and 2013. (hubbardstreetdance.com and linesballet.org) LINES Ballet Dancers Ricardo Zayas, Michael Montgomery and Keelan Whitmore, from left,in AZIMUTH by Alonzo King. Photo by Margo Moritz. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Alonzo King LINES Ballet will share the stage to present the Southern California premiere of “AZIMUTH”, a new work by King. Structured in nine sections, “AZIMUTH” is defined by King as “the distance between where you are and where you are headed, erased by absorption.” “AZIMUTH” features 28 world-renowned dancers: all 12 members of LINES Ballet and 16 from Hubbard Street’s ensemble of 18. King also choreographed “Scheherazade.” I recently spoke to King about his career and the upcoming show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Darlene Donloe: What is the benefit of a shared program with Hubbard Street? Alonzo King: Glenn Edgerton, the head of Hubbard Street, said he wanted his company to experience what my company experiences. He was interested in our ideology. My company is unique in how we approach dance. You want this to be a living thesis. They are looking at you as a communicative tool. It’s about communication skills. With that emphasis, as odd as it seems, you’re trying to get what’s behind the body. That’s a lot of work. It goes against the grain about how most people are educating. The way we work, I’m a thesis of this idea. You have to contemplate whether you see it and understand it. He wanted to get together and create something unique. Managing the crazy schedule and the ideology of both companies, is what the world can do, in terms of pulling resources and coming together to mix chemistry, more than we’d be as separate individuals. Getting together presented some problems, but it was about risk-taking. Glenn Edgerton is one of the kindest and amiable people you can work with. DD: How did this collaboration begin? AK: Glenn brought it up. He flew out with his manager and we had a talk with my manager. He and I are idea-oriented. We talked about the cost and the plan. It took three years. We convened in Irvine at the UC Irvine campus to create the work. We worked with students from both of our schools and worked with dance students there.  It took three rushed, bloody weeks to complete.  Glenn wanted me to work with the company. I worked on materials for his and my company. DD: So, you’ve explained why Edgerton wanted the collaboration. What

Current Series 3 game series vs Padres @ AT&T Park San Diego Padres Gaslamp Ball @ San Francisco Giants McCovey Chronicles Monday, Jun 17, 2013, 7:15 PM PDT AT&T Park Edinson Volquez vs Barry Zito Partly cloudy. Winds blowing out to center field at 10-15 m.p.h. Game time temperature around 55. Complete Coverage > Tue 06/18 7:15 PM PDT Wed 06/19 12:45 PM PDT 1. Gregor Blanco - LF 2. Tony Abreu - 2B 3. Brandon Crawford - SS 4. Hunter Pence - RF 5. Brandon Belt - 1B 6. Joaquin Arias - 3B 7. Hector Sanchez - C 8. Juan Perez - CF 9. Barry Zito - P

This is a sponsored post, in which we were asked to write about the music that plays loudly and proudly inside the Barclays Center. You can find all the NBA music here! When it comes to in-arena music, Nets fans should consider themselves lucky; spoiled, even. In music, Brooklyn has its place as an institution. No, it's not Memphis or Nashville, and it's certainly not San Francisco nor Seattle. But that's perfectly fine. Brooklyn's musical identity can't be defined; not like Seattle's or Nashville's. True, when you do think of Brooklyn you think of its place in hip-hop history. The fact is, Brooklyn gave us Biggie, the Beastie Boys, Pete Rock, the RZA, the GZA, Jeru, Big Daddy Kane and, of course, Jay-Z, among many, many others. But Brooklyn isn't hip-hop, which is a beautifully diverse thing to say. It's all things. It's blues, it's rock, it's soul, it's indie, it's jazz, it's dancehall, it's all things, just not defined. And nothing encapsulates that musical and cultural diversity more than John Forte's ode to Brooklyn, the anthem that plays nightly before, during and after all Nets games. In "Brooklyn: Something to Lean On," diversity lives in its lyrics, its video and even in the song's composition. Listen/watch: A "unifying anthem," as described by the video's director. That's a perfect descriptor. And that's what makes Nets fans among the luckiest in the NBA, in that you can show a unified team- and borough-pride through an anthem and a simple chant. "Brooooooklyn!"

Accel Partners, which has invested in Cloudera, Fusion-IO and RelateIQ, is making a further big push into big data, as it announces the creation of a second fund focused on startups that are storing, analyzing and harnessing the power of data analytics. The funding for the $100 million Big Data Fund 2 will come from Accel’s other investment vehicles worldwide, including Accel London IV, a new $475 million European and Israeli tech-focused fund that was announced in April. In late 2011, the firm announced the creation of its first $100 million big data fund. Since then, Accel has hired Jake Flomenberg, formerly with big data company Splunk, as a partner. Meanwhile, others in the industry have ramped up efforts to go after big data plays. IA Ventures has raised $105 million for its second fund, and Data Collective in San Francisco has launched to also focus on the sector. Ping Li, an Accel partner who heads the firm’s big data fund, tells peHUB that some of the first fund remains in reserve for follow-on deals, but that the firm has invested in 10 big data companies from the first fund, including two-seed stage investments that may raise Series A rounds. In December, Accel also led the $65 million round of Cloudera Inc., a provider of Apache Hadoop software for distributed computing and analysis of data sets, which included Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and In-Q-Tel. Cloudera has now raised about $140 million in total funding. Li says that the Accel fund will continue to invest in infrastructure companies, such as Cloudera, but the second big data fund will focus on more data-driven software investments in the space. “More startups are working on ways to extract the most value out of all the big data being collected, especially on mobile phones,” he tells peHUB. “There are so many areas today where data is being extracted, such as at work on the phone, that the focus now is on capturing the data, processing it and providing the right intelligence on how to act on it.” Li expects the first deal from the second fund to come within the next month. And as part of the firm’s new fund, Accel has announced that it has added Anthony Deighton, CTO of Qlikview, and Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva, to its Big Data Fund Advisory Council. Photo from Shutterstock. The post Accel Goes Big Into Big Data with Second $100M Fund appeared first on peHUB.

Sept. 9 - 10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Enterprise cloud backup provider Zetta.netv has raised $8 million in new funding to help it bolster its backup, disaster recovery, and archiving services, the company said today. Zetta.net competes with cloud backup providers such as Carbonite and Mozy, but it differentiates itself by claiming top-tier performance. As an example, it says that it helped its customer Group Photographers Association restore 2.7TB of data in less than 24 hours back in July 2012. “We want to carve out a segment of the market that previously didn’t use cloud services,” Chris Schin, VP of Product at Zetta.net, told VentureBeat. “The dirty little secret in the cloud market is that most [cloud recovery] services can’t backup multiple terabytes and restore it quickly. But we can.” The company has seen substantial customer growth in the past year. From Q1 2012 to Q1 2013, its customers have grown by 243 percent. The company now has 400 small-to-medium sized business customers. Big customers include Yammer, Mint.com, Marketo, and Mazda. Zetta.net promises 99.99% uptime and has 2 data centers — one on the East Coast and one on the West Coast. It says that it’s now backing up 4.3 billion files in the cloud each month. Pricing for Zetta.net’s new flagship DataProtect 4.0 product starts at $225 per month. This includes 500GB of storage, backup and recovery protection, monitoring, and more. The new round of funding was led by new investor Industry Ventures with participation by existing investors Foundation Capital and Sigma Partners. Including the new funding, Zetta.net has raised $39.5 million. The new funds will go toward hiring new sales, marketing, and engineering employees. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Zetta.net was founded in 2008. The company’s focus is on the U.S. market, but it intends to look at international expansion in 2014. Clouds photo via Jeff Kramer/Flickr Filed under: Business, Cloud, Deals .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate { width:278px; margin:0px 0px 10px 20px; padding:10px; float:right; border:1px solid #e4e4e4; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color:#000; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate .logo-date-wrap { width:100%; display:block; float:left; margin-bottom:8px; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate img { float:left; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate .date-location { float:right; font-size:12px; line-height:14px; text-align:center; padding-left:7px; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:3px; border-left:1px solid #e6e6e6; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate .cta { display:block; clear:both; width:100%; border-radius:5px; border:1px solid #1864b1; color:#fff; text-shadow: 0px -1px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); text-align:center; text-decoration:none; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:17px; padding:4px 0px 6px 0px; background: #1f80e4; background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%, #1862ae 100%); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#1f80e4), color-stop(100%,#1862ae)); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#1f80e4', endColorstr='#1862ae',GradientType=0 ); }