Palantir named a "Disruptor" by CNBC

CNBC — May 15, 2013

“CNBC names Palantir as one of top software companies in their inaugural "CNBC Disruptor 50 List."”

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Palantir and Salesforce are enabling anti-trafficking organizations to fight back, thanks to funding help from Google

Fast Company — May 14, 2013

“What Palantir is allowing The Global Human Trafficking Hotline Network to do is to make all the data it gathers useful. And in the case of human trafficking, the data the hotline collects becomes useful in two distinct ways: the first for immediate response, and the second for pattern recognition.”

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Google Turns to Big Data to Unmask Human Traffickers

Bloomberg Businessweek — April 15, 2013

“"The alliance announced on Tuesday means the three anti-trafficking networks, which operate emergency hotlines in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, will share data on where the emergency phone calls are originating, the ages of the victims, their home countries, and the types of criminal activities they have been forced into. With the help of Salesforce.com, Palantir, and Google, the agencies will be able to crunch data like this in real time to detect crime trends that they can then share with police and policymakers to help protect victims."”

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Google, Palantir, Salesforce Launch Anti-Human Trafficking Database

TechInvestorNews — April 9, 2013

“Google is teaming up with two other tech giants to create a giant database of human trafficking information. Palantir and Salesforce are offering analytics and data integration tools to three non-profits which operate anonymous call centers which track human trafficking and contemporary slavery. The resulting project will be one of the world's largest databases of human trafficking information.”

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Palantir Technologies Creates Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action, Partners with Team Rubicon and Direct Relief to Revolutionize Disaster Response Efforts

Wall Street Journal — March 20, 2013

“Palantir commits its innovative technology platform to help response organizations better analyze information and mobilize resources before, during and after crises”

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Using Technology to Mobilize Volunteers After Hurricane Sandy - 2013 CGI Winter Meeting

YouTube — February 27, 2013

“At the 2013 CGI Winter Meeting the Opening Plenary was started by a conversation between Jake Wood of Team Rubicon and Alex Karp of Palantir moderated by Jose Maria Figueres. The discussion focused on Team Rubicon and Palantir's efforts to organized volunteers efficiently in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.”

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Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon

Bloomberg Businessweek — November 22, 2011

“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

PR Newswire — October 5, 2011

“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. ”

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The next big Subprime Mortgage Ripoff – can we spare another $15 billion?

Gartner Blog Network — August 10, 2011

“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.”

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Super Crunchers

Forbes — February 23, 2011

“The toughest place to get a job in Silicon Valley isn't Facebook but a discreet data mining shop with a thing for Tolkien.”

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Names You Need to Know in 2011: Palantir Technologies

Forbes — November 12, 2010

“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.”

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'I have the best job in America!'

CNNMoney — October, 2010

“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.”

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Palantir: The Next Billion-Dollar Company Raises $90 Million

TechCrunch — June 25, 2010

“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

Forbes — April 30, 2010

“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.”

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How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade

Wall Street Journal — September 4, 2009

“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.”

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Tracking Cyberspies Through the Web Wilderness

The New York Times — May 11, 2009

“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.”

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