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Startup Dataminr claims it gave investors a three-minute headstart to dump BlackBerry stock

4 NOV 2013:

Dataminr, a startup focused on analyzing the world's tweets in real time in order to predict specific trends or activity, is claiming it gave users tracking stock-market activity a three-minute heads up on Monday morning that BlackBerry's stock was about to tank.

As the graphic below shows, the company noted a tweet from the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper that BlackBerry was giving up its search for a buyer and instead replacing its CEO. The tweet (embedded below) happened at 8:12 a.m. Eastern Time, followed up by a news story at 8:15 a.m. By 8:19 a.m., BlackBerry stock had fallen more than 20 percent.

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How Twitter Helps Hedge Funds Find Lucrative Stock Tips

7 NOV 2013:

A Canadian newspaper sent out a little-seen Tweet at 8:12 a.m. ET on Monday breaking the news that BlackBerry's (BBRY) $4.7 billion buyout had gone up in flames.

Within seconds, the clients of real-time information discovery service Dataminr received an alert warning them about the news. The alert came a full three minutes before the wire services picked up the story, giving Dataminr's sophisticated clients like hedge funds precious time to short BlackBerry before its stock eventually plummeted 21%.

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Twitter's Data Business Proves Lucrative

7 OCT 2013:

Five minutes before news of last week's Capitol Hill shooting broke on TV, Dataminr subscribers got an alert to take action-giving them a leg up on the news that led the S&P Index to drop by 20 points five minutes later.

Dataminr's algorithms spotted just a handful of early eyewitness shooting reports posted on Twitter and instantaneously deduced from their timing, along with the Tweeters' influence and physical location that something urgent was happening.

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Hot Plays for Big Data Companies

12 JUN 2013:

(Video) Venrock Partner Nick Beim discusses the company's big data investment plans with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "Money Moves".

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Mining Tweets for Cash: Dataminr Raises $30 Million

12 JUN 2013:

(Video) Dataminr, the New York City startup that mines Twitter for tradable news, has raised an additional $30 million in private funding from venture capital firms. Telis Demos joins digits.

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Dataminr raises $30M for lightening quick response to Twitter 'hotspots'

12 JUN 2013:

Dataminr has closed $30 million for its real time analytics service that helps enterprise clients keep tabs on the pulse of their industry. The company takes social media data and analyzes it for "hotspots of activity." The system then creates a customized signal stream of market relevant information, noteworthy events, and emerging trends that clients can refer to while making decisions.

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Dataminr raises $30M to keep surfacing the most significant tweets

12 JUN 2013:

Twitter deserves praise for giving millions of people access to real-time information from people, companies and other organizations. But the more people you follow, the harder it is to spot the important tweets. Dataminr's software solves this problem by cruising through hundreds of millions of tweets a day and sending alerts on the most important ones. That way, customers don't need to spend hours keeping their eyes glued to the screen.

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Dataminr Secures $30 Million Amid Twitter-Scanning Success

12 JUN 2013:

Dataminr Inc., the New York City startup that mines Twitter for tradable news, has raised an additional $30 million in private funding from venture capital firms.

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Dataminr Raises $30 Million in Funding Led by Venrock and IVP

12 JUN 2013:

Ted Bailey, Founder & CEO of Dataminr remarked, "We are extremely pleased to have secured this new round of capital and the endorsement of such prestigious firms as Venrock and IVP. The competitive advantage of time and unique information that we deliver to our clients cannot be overstated. Dataminr's world-class team of PhDs and data scientists has spent years mastering the new science of information discovery in social media and has developed highly sophisticated algorithms that break new ground. To meet rapidly increasing demand for our offering, Dataminr will deploy this funding to accelerate growth in our current markets and to expand into new verticals."

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In the Wired World, Feeds Drive Trading

25 APR 2013:

When the words "explosions" and "White House" popped up Tuesday on a verified Associated Press Twitter account, computers in the bare-bones offices of a New York City startup sprang into action...Dataminr, sent alerts to clients like hedge funds and government agencies about the apparent news. Shortly thereafter, the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 145 points in seconds.

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Fast Company: Twitter Can Predict The Stock Market, If You're Reading The Right Tweets

25 APR 2013:

With access to Twitter's Firehose, representing approximately 200 million users, Dataminr uses proprietary event-detection algorithms to deliver potentially market-moving information on Twitter to its clients; often this information is not yet in news. Examples of early events Dataminr provided clients include: an outbreak of norovirus aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise that caused the ship to return to port and an indication of the likely hack of the AP verified Twitter account, after one of its tweets falsely mentioned an explosion at the White House.

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Reuters: Hoax tweet tests firms that filter social media for Wall Street

24 APR 2013:

On Tuesday afternoon, the Associated Press's official Twitter account reported explosions at the White House, leading to a temporary $140 billion sell-off in the S&P 500. Within minutes, Dataminr alerted clients on the AP tweet and sourced another tweet from a reporter in the White House basement that indicated the AP account was likely hacked.

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Should Bloomberg be afraid of Twitter?

24 APR 2013:

Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 146 points within seconds after a hacked AP account falsely claimed the White House was under attack. While the market recovered quickly after the hoax was exposed, it showed just how many Wall Street traders were now relying on Twitter for trading information. Dataminr says it was able to alert its clients to the hoax a full two minutes ahead of major news...

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Reuters: Twitter, social media are fertile ground for stock hoaxes

11 MAR 2013:

Analytic firms like Dataminr help financial clients navigate Twitter. Stock movement for audio chip maker Audience serves as a prime example. On the morning of Jan. 29, a tweet was posted to the Twitter account of someone pretending to represent Carson Block of Muddy Waters. The tweet lead to a decline in Audience's stock price later that day around 2p.m., as more than 300,000 shares traded in a two-minute window, high above the stock's average daily volume of nearly 186,000 shares. Dataminr alerted on the fake tweet at 12:28 p.m. The firm "was able to warn its clients of a market rumor far in advance of the market-movement, along with providing context on the veracity of the message," said Ted Bailey, Dataminr's Chief Executive.

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Twitter Was Watched for Security Threats During Obama's Inauguration

28 JAN 2013:

The Presidential Inauguration Committee worked with Twitter monitoring firm Dataminr to detect potential security threats during President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony last week...

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How Twitter Is Being Mined to Predict Market-Moving Events

6 DEC 2012:

Dataminr, a New York City-based social media analytics company, just raised $13 million in series B round fundraising this September, adding to the $3.5 million in venture funds it already has. The company's favorable access to Twitter's "full firehose" of ceaselessly flowing data and its unique approach to data analysis and prediction has attracted funds...

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Fast Company: Dataminr Hooks Financial Firms On Speed

8 OCT 2012:

The social media analytics company identifies trends and anomalies in real time across Twitter to create actionable signals for financial firms and governmental organizations. Examples of early awareness include a fire at a Chevron oil refinery in California that lead to a spike in gasoline prices and delivery of the news of Osama Bin Laden's death prior to major sources.

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Twitter Miner Dataminr Raises $13 Million

24 SEP 2012:

Dataminr, which turns Tweets into high-frequency trading news and has been tagged as one of the Twitter CEO's favorite startups, has just raised $13 million from institutional and private investors, the company announced.

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Dataminr grabs $13M for Twitter-powered sensor network

24 SEP 2012:

Dataminr, a New York City startup, introduced a Twitter-powered sensor network in April that allowed its financial and government clients to use Dataminr as an early warning system for news and trends. Now, the company has raised $13 million in Series B financing to build out its service and go after new clients...

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After getting access to the Twitter firehose,
social media data startup Dataminr lands $13m

24 SEP 2012:

Real-time social media data firm Dataminr today announced that it has raised $13 million in Series B funding....

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Dataminr Chosen by Twitter as a
Certified Analytics Product

29 AUG 2012:

Meanwhile, there is a thriving ecosystem of Twitter developers building products and services that address these needs and help businesses grow. To make it easier for businesses to find the right tools, we're launching the Twitter Certified Products Program. Certified Products represent some of the best offerings in these three categories...

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Dataminr to use Twitter to analyze
and predict global events

9 APR 2012:

Dataminr is an analytics company that draws trends from social networks for various business clients, and today it revealed a partnership with Twitter that grants it access to over 340 million tweets a day - data points that will be used to create what the company calls "one of the earliest warning systems for breaking news and emerging events." The company claimed last year that the technology had relayed news of Osama Bin Laden's death to its clients before the story had been reported by major media outlets. The use of Twitter for breaking news in recent years has grown both for firsthand users of the service and even for general audiences through broadcast outlets like CNN - and Dataminr joins other companies already using big data from from Twitter.

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Dataminr gains access to full Twitter Firehose, turns tweets into 'actionable signals'

9 APR 2012:

Dataminr, a New York social media data analytics startup, this morning announced a partnership with information deliver and social network company Twitter, giving it access to the latter's full Firehose.

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Dataminr builds a Twitter-powered early warning system

9 APR 2012:

Dataminr, a New York-based start-up that has been quietly building a global sensor network powered by Twitter, is introducing its technology to the public Monday, showing how its real-time engine can act as an early warning system for enterprise and government customers. Dataminr has signed a partnership with Twitter to access its firehose and is analyzing it in dozens of ways, helping surface breaking news, critical information or highlighting trends from emerging events.

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Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter

9 APR 2012:

The company, Dataminr, described its technology at the Twitter Devnest conference last May, shortly after its service used Twitter data to report bin Laden's death to its clients before the story hit major media outlets. Today, Dataminr is announcing a partnership with Twitter allowing it greater access to tweets and their metadata, and is expanding availability of the service.

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Dataminr Pioneers New Social Media Signals for Enterprise Clients, Announces Partnership With Twitter

9 APR 2012:

"At any given moment, there are millions of voices on Twitter telling us what's happening in the world," said Satya Patel, Twitter Vice President of Product. "We're excited to have Dataminr apply its technical prowess to help enterprise clients identify events that are the most relevant to them."

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Now Trending: Turning Tweets Into Trades

12 DEC 2011:

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How To Succeed In The New New Twitter App Ecosystem? Focus On Analytics And Enterprise

9 DEC 2011:

Sarver replied that analytics and entreprise were two arenas where developers should focus, "We're bullish on analytics." He referred to the analytics and enterprise curation space as hot, and brought up the recent acquisition of Radian 6 by Salesforce by $300 million. He also referred a to company called Dataminr as an example of an "ideal" Twitter app...