News & Events

May 2013
Digital Trowel's Chief Scientist, Prof. Ronen Feldman, will be giving the prestigious half-day tutorial, titled Practical Sentiment Analysis, at the annual Sentiment Analysis Symposium on May 7th. Read more here.
April 2013
An academic paper co-authored by Professor Ronen Feldman, Digital Trowel’s co-Founder and Chief Scientist, has been named as one of the five 2013 finalists for the very prestigious AQR Insight Award. The award is given annually to the academic paper that is the most striking example of cutting edge theory with great potential to influence the financial industry. The submission is based around Digital Trowel’s patent pending Visual CaRE technology, along with its Stock Sonar financial sentiment tool. Professor Feldman will be presenting the theories and conclusions to the award committee in Greenwich, CT on April 25th. Read More here
June 2011
Digital Trowel selected as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup. Read here.
Digital Trowel Teams Up with Microsoft to Offer Company and Business Professional Data Enhancement on Windows Azure Marketplace. Read here.
May 2011
Digital Trowel's Powerlinx database is now available on Microsoft’s newly launched Windows Azure Marketplace! Now customers can have easy access to our data via an API. Check it out here.
April 2011
DT’s Co-founder and Chief Scientist Prof. Ronen Feldman, has been selected to present a tutorial at the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11), to be held at Barcelona, Spain July 17-21, 2011, on the subject of "Text Mining from User Generated Content".
DT’s Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Prof. Ronen Feldman, was the leadoff speaker at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, held on April 12 in New York, on the subject of Sentiment Analysis Past, Present & Future, and an Application in Trading Strategies. The symposium is a unique event that bridges technology and business in one of the most exciting applications to emerge in recent years: software that discovers business value in opinions and attitudes in social media, news, and enterprise feedback. Click here to view the lecture.
December 2010
Digital Trowel has entered into a Database Participation Agreement with MarDev-DM2, a division of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world leading provider of professional information solutions in the Science, Medical, Risk, Legal and Business sectors.
November 2010
Digital Trowel has entered into an agreement to provide data to Bureau Van Dijk, one of the world’s leading providers of business intelligence. This agreement with BVD, a company with an exceptional global reputation for the quality of its products, is a further affirmation of the quality of DT’s data.
October 2010
Digital Trowel's CTO, Anton Bar, was a featured panelist at the 2010 MDM Data & Governance Summit held in NY October 3-5. Anton was a featured speaker presenting DT's groundbreaking Identity Resolution technology and was a panelist along with representatives of Microsoft and Accenture discussing "The Next Generation of MDM Technology. Steve Gibson, SlapStart.com writes about The Stock Sonar. "The Stock Sonar is a powerful tool for sifting through what I believe to be the strongest indicator of the market- general sentiment. The ability to scan the mass of it and condense it down to a single verifiable number is powerful."
September 2010
"TechCrunch features Digital Trowel and The Stock Sonar in a video interview with Prof. Ronen Feldman. DT experienced a significant spike in unique visitors to the TSS site, as well as viewings of the TSS video, within hours of the release of the Tech Crunch feature". "TheStockSonar.com - For The Making of Sound Investments". The Stock Sonar is appraised by KillerStartups.com, "The data is presented so clearly that even people who are new to the way the market operates will be able to make good sense of it." Digital Trowel launched The Stock Sonar. Bringing investors the bottom line media sentiment, quantified at a quick glance to help make informed investment decisions.
August 2010
Jimmy Becker, a long-time veteran of the business information industry, including very successful career stops at Dun & Bradstreet and Dow Jones, as well as having been a co-founder of One Source Information Services, has joined DT as its VP of Sales & Marketing and Chief Revenue Officer. Digital Trowel has engaged the Jordan Edmiston Group (www.jegi.com), to represent the company as an integral part of DT's growth strategy. JEGI is the leading provider of independent investment banking services for companies in the media, information, marketing services industries, as well as related technologies, having completed in excess of 500 high profile transactions since 1987. Digital Trowel has retained the global law firm of Arent Fox. As an integral part of DT's growth strategy, Arent Fox will act as counsel to the company in its business transactions in the United States. Digital Trowel has entered into a Data Redistribution Agreement with one of the leading database marketing companies in the United States. The Agreement will have DT providing 'Full' North American business contact records that will represent a material portion of our partner's redistribution database.
June 2010
MDM Institute (http://www.tcdii.com) invites the Digital Trowel’s CTO, Mr. Anton Bar, to present at the panel of experts on the future of Master Database Management tools at the MDM Summit in NYC, October 2010
May 2010
Digital Trowel completed the development of its Business Intelligence API, providing customers with a constant stream of business events and media buzz for a customer-defined portfolio of companies and business professionals. The API is based on the Digital Trowel's state-of-the-art Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis software.
April 2010
Digital Trowel publishes White Paper's on its Semantic and MDM technologies
March 2010
David T. Clarke, the Chief Data Officer of Dun & Bradstreet International, joins the DT's Board of Directors.
January 2010
Digital Trowel successfully completed the development of the "Know Your Customer" system for Dun & Bradstreet (http://www.dnb.com). The system modules are Digital Trowel's state-of-the-art information extraction, data processing and business intelligence processes.
December 2009
Digital Trowel has collected the world's largest database of US companies and business professionals, including fresh and current contacts, business web sites, licensed professionals, state employees, information on locations of headquarters, branches and subsidiaries etc. The information is collected and corroborated using hundreds of public online information sources and is constantly refreshed as soon as new information becomes available on the web.
October 2009
Digital Trowel's data is tested and accepted as a ‘gold source’ standard of quality by Dun & Bradstreet.
August 2009
As part of Digital Trowel's participation in the EuroStars technology development initiative, the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor (http://www.moital.gov.il, the Chief Scientist office) funds the development of a Business Intelligence extension in the Digital Trowel's information extraction engine. The extension is designed to mine and analyze various types of business events including mergers and acquisitions, employment changes, legal events, product releases or recalls etc.
August 2009
University of Leipzig (http://www.uni-leipzig.de/english), OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com, US), Punkt netServices (http://www.punkt.at, Austria) and NetResearch GmbH (http://www.netresearch.de, Germany) chose the Digital Trowel's Text Mining engine.
July 5, 2009 Digital Trowel Features as Microsoft Israel Case Study
A case study on Digital Trowel was featured recently on the "Customers' Stories" section of Microsoft Israel's website (published on July 5, 2009). The case study describes Digital Trowel's data mining technologies and development activities with a focus on the company's evolution from MySQL to Microsoft's SQL Server for its infrastructure needs. The case study also enumerates the many technology development and business benefits accruing to Digital Trowel from its use of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition.
June 28, 2009 Tutorial by Feldman at ACM SIGKDD Conference in Paris
At the end of June, Digital Trowel Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Prof. Ronen Feldman, together with Digital Trowel Board of Director’s Member Prof. Lyle Ungar, gave a tutorial on the state-of-the-art of Real World Text Mining at the 15th annual ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining held in Paris. Feldman's and Ungar's tutorial at KDD09 included a discussion of recent advances in unsupervised methods for extracting facts from text and methods used for web-scale mining. They also presented several real world applications of text mining and how to handle informal texts such as blogs and user reviews, as well as how to build scalable systems. Ungar recently returned from a sabbatical at Google, where he and a team built what is probably the world’s largest named entity recognition system. The annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government.
June 9, 2009 Prof. Ronen Feldman Receives Hebrew University's Prestigious Abe Gray Prize
	On June 9, 2009, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, awarded its Abe Gray Prize for Excellence to Prof. Ronen Feldman in recognition of his contributions in the field of text mining. The prize was established by the late Abe Gray, a leading Canadian businessman, for excellence in research in the fields of business and finance. As part of the ceremony, Professor Feldman delivered a lecture entitled, "Sentiment Analysis of Stocks from News Sites."
June 8, 2009 Wharton Accounting Journal to Publish Feldman Paper
One of the world's leading accounting journals recently accepted for publication a paper on sentiment analysis authored by Digital Trowel Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Prof. Ronen Feldman. The Review of Accounting Studies Journal, published by the Accounting Department of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, will publish Prof. Feldman's paper entitled "Management Tone Change, Post Earnings Announcement Drift and Accruals".
January, 2009
Anton Bar joins DT as its Chief Technology Officer
October 2008
Prof. Lyle H. Ungar of the Wharton School of Business joins the DT's Board of Directors
July 2008
Steve Gasner joins DT as its Chief Data Officer
June 2008
Digital Trowel is co-founded by Praxis Venture and its CEO, Doron Cohen a seasoned serial entrepreneur and investor in early and growth stage technology companies, and Professor Ronen Feldman the world's leading authority on Text Mining.