In 2016 RunKeeper was aquired by a company whose name is an acrony, for what Latin phrase?
Runkeeper Runkeeper is a GPS fitness-tracking app for iOS and Android with over 50 million users. First launched in 2008 by CEO Jason Jacobs with the help of "moonlighting engineers" and Raizlabs. In late 2011 Runkeeper secured $10 million in a Series B financing, led by Spark Capital. In February, 2016, RunKeeper was acquired by ASICS.
Automate This Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World is a book written by Christopher Steiner and published by Penguin Group. Steiner begins his study of algorithms on Wall Street in the 1980s but also provides examples from other industries. For example, he explains the history of Pandora Radio and the use of algorithms in music identification. He expresses concern that such use of algorithms may lead to the homogenization of music over time. Steiner also discusses the algorithms that eLoyalty (now owned by Mattersight Corporation following divestiture of the technology) was created by dissecting 2 million speech patterns and can now identify a caller's personality style and direct the caller with a compatible customer support representative.