Attensity gets $90 million from mystery investor as its long journey continues

Patrick Hoge Reporter- San Francisco Business Times Email | Google+ | Twitter | LinkedIn Attensity Group, known widely as a social media data-mining software maker, raised $90 million and says it sees a big future building upon its existing tools for sifting through internal corporate data. The news comes about five months after the Palo Alto-based holding company quietly replaced its CEO, installing venture capitalist and board Chairman Howard Lau in the job. Lau said in an interview that the funding Attensity just secured is validation of a game plan the company has formulated to expand upon its existing abilities to cull insights from the...