For seed investors it's like an early-warning system, detecting businesses that are gaining mind share with customers long before they're a hot deal (for example, the app will identify a startup that suddenly starts to get a lot of organic Twitter mentions).
The notion that a bedbug-detecting business could stay busy is troubling, but not surprising given reports that bedbugs have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years in parts of North America, Europe and Australia.
With the elevated terror alert from information that al Qaeda may target financial institutions and U.S. corporations, companies in the bomb-detecting business are seeing a surge in interest.
It's a dour business detecting bombs, but it's a business that, for better or worse, is likely to boom as the war on terror and rush to defend against it remains a part of daily life.
Jack is a 40-year-old programming manager in Silicon Valley who has recently been sacked from his job after detecting some shady business practices at his company.
If noncompliant behavior is detected, the business process needs to be redesigned.
An imperative business trait for attaining success is by detecting the right business partner and sponsor from this area.
And while new software programs help detect fraud, businesses report that travel fraud increased in the last few years as the distressed economy put more financial pressure on both employees and employers.
Most notably, Pay With Square introduces "geofencing" to Android phones — basically, a feature that can easily detect nearby businesses that have equipment that can accept payments through the app.
MORE recently, Roche has resisted the drug industry's accepted wisdom that pharmaceutical makers must merge in order to survive, and it pioneered the idea of expanding into diagnostics, the business of detecting and identifying diseases, and twinning that product line with its drugs.
Grove's overhaul of Intel's business - switching from digital memory to processors - was an early example of his obsession with detecting major shifts in business and technology and staying flexible enough to move quickly and make the most of them.
