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Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon
“For anyone in peril, the message is clear: Give us a signal and a forward deployed engineer will be at your doorstep. “There are some people out there that don’t think to pick up the phone and call us,” Karp says. “By next year, many of those people will.”
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Palantir Technologies Inducted into the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Hall of Innovation
“Palantir was recognized by the IT Executive Team at JPMC for the impact its technology has made on the business, the disruptive nature of its technology, and the ability of its partnership to drive business value within JPMC. ”
The next big Subprime Mortgage Ripoff – can we spare another $15 billion?
“But by using entity link analysis and pattern based intelligence government agencies and other entities can get their arms around disparate information, find the abuse and fraud, and stop it once and for all.”
Super Crunchers
“The toughest place to get a job in Silicon Valley isn't Facebook but a discreet data mining shop with a thing for Tolkien.”
Names You Need to Know in 2011: Palantir Technologies
“For a startup whose valuation is nearing $1 billion and was founded in 2004 by Stanford computer scientists and members of the infamous PayPal mafia, including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Palantir Technologies is one of the least talked-about companies. That's partly because it doesn't have an official PR, marketing or sales team.”
Read “Names You Need to Know in 2011: Palantir Technologies” at Forbes »
'I have the best job in America!'
“I put together apps people actually use. So for me, the greatest joy comes from seeing people use the product in a way that makes their life better or makes it easier for them to do their job.”
Palantir: The Next Billion-Dollar Company Raises $90 Million
“Palantir, a team of 250-plus engineers nestled in downtown Palo Alto, has raised $90 million in Series D financing at a $735 million valuation — the company exclusively told TechCrunch.”
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PayPal-Based Technology Helped Bust India’s And The Dalai Lama’s Cyberspies
“What made Palantir's intelligence platform, called Palantir Government, a tool of choice for the Munk Centre investigators was its ability to handle and slice large sets of data using very granular controls. One way to think of the platform is as an easy-to-use search tool with the ability to scan through multiple data sets at once.”
Read “PayPal-Based Technology Helped Bust India’s And The Dalai Lama’s Cyberspies” at Forbes »
How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade
“One of the latest entrants into the government spy-services marketplace, Palantir Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most effective tool to date to investigate terrorist networks.”
Read “How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade” at Wall Street Journal »
Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness
“They uploaded the data into a visualization program that had been provided to the group by Palantir Technologies, a software company that has developed a program that allows investigators to ‘fuse’ large data sets to look for correlations and connections that may otherwise go unnoticed.”
Read “Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness” at The New York Times »




