Ingrid Lunden of TechCrunch reports, “QuBit, a big-data startup whose analytics platform helps e-commerce sites with customer personalization, is today announcing that it has raised a Series A round of funding — $7.5 million led by Balderton Capital with participation from existing angel investors. Read more

A short while ago, we reported that Monster.com brought semantics to its platform. Now Monster has gone a step further: “Monster.com is getting into the cloud-computing mix with a new ‘semantic search and analytics platform’ service called SeeMore, which it launched on Thursday morning. Merging two hot capabilities —
cloud-based delivery and analytics — makes a lot of sense for Monster, which no doubt supplies many companies with a lot of data in the form of resumes. Giving them a relatively pain-free way to make the most of that information only makes Monster that much more valuable.” Read more