| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.10.2019 | Startup Spotlight: Seed-X wants to help farmers find the right seed using AI and computer vision | Although we’ve been planting crops for centuries, farmers are plagued with the same critical and potentially game-clinching decision each season: Which seeds should I plant?
They navigate this question based on their region, weather conditi... |
| 25.10.2012 | Techono.me Names Dating App Heystack Its Top Startup For 2012 | Some say Tel Aviv is almost like having Silicon Valley on Europe’s doorstep, and you do get that feeling sometimes. The urgency of the people and their sheer energy is infectious. It’s not for nothing that VCs take regular flights there and... |
| 27.09.2012 | Facebook Developer Consolidation: Marketing Outfit Betapond Buys UK’s iPlatform For Engineering Muscle | As Facebook continues to mature as a platform, the companies working on it are scaling up to meet the challenge of catching attention on a social network now pushing 1 billion users. In the latest development, the UK-based Facebook app deve... |
| 09.07.2012 | Facebook Acq-Retired Face.com, But Here’s Why It Will Bank By Reviving Its Facial Recog API | Tagged photos are Facebook’s lifeblood, and it would be happy to suck them out of other apps. That’s why I suspect Facebook will resurrect Face.com’s facial recognition API, even though it just shut it down less than a month after acquiring... |
| 22.06.2012 | Tech Meets Geo-Tech: Russia’s Search Giant Yandex Takes $1M, 25% Stake In Seismotech | Yandex may be seen as the anti-Google by pursuing a strategy for growing its search-portal business in Russia and adjacent countries rather than aggressively expanding worldwide, but it is using another route to extend its reach: through in... |
| 18.06.2012 | Facebook acquires facial recognition startup, may broaden tagging ability | reader comments 17 with 14 posters participating
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On Monday, Facebook announced that it would acquire Israeli startup Face.com for an undisclosed amount.
Face.com develops a... |
| 18.06.2012 | Facebook grabs Face.com to bolster its photo presence | Now with Instagram, Face.com in its belt, Facebook is poised to dominate photo uploading on the Web
Facebook is really placing extra emphasis on the "face" portion of its business with news out this morning that the social network... |
| 18.06.2012 | Facebook Scoops Up Face.com For $55-60M To Bolster Its Facial Recognition Tech (Updated) | After about a month of speculation, Facebook has finally announced its acquisition of Israeli facial recognition technology Face.com.
We’ve heard from multiple sources that the acquisition price was around $100m, with others reporting that ... |
| 18.06.2012 | Facebook: Now with More Israeli Facial Recognition Technology! | Cyborg Vision, a hack built with Face.com’s API.
After rumors all but confirmed it, Face.com, the Israeli facial recognition startup, finally acknowledged on its blog today that the company has been acquired by Facebook. TechCrunch’s source... |
| 18.06.2012 | Facebook buys facial recognition startup Face.com | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook has purchased facial recognition startup Face.com, the companies announced Monday morning.
“People who use Facebook enjoy shar... |
| 29.05.2012 | Face.com Is Definitely Being Acquired By Facebook Say Sources | The purchase of Face.com by Facebook is happening and is a done deal, say multiple TechCrunch sources.
Those familiar with the matter have confirmed the price will be $100m, as per the media speculation in the last few days. So far Face.com... |
| 28.05.2012 | How Face(.com) Recognition Could Fit Into Facebook Mobile | Face.com’s CEO has shrugged off rumors that it is being acquired by Facebook for up to $100 million when we asked. But the addition of its facial recognition tech to Facebook’s mobile apps could make sure friend tagging continues as the soc... |
| 28.05.2012 | Facebook’s $100M purchase of Face.com would actually make sense | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook is rumored to be in talks to purchase fa... |
| 14.05.2012 | KLIK for iPhone: The First App With Facial Recognition Software | Last month, WPN’s Abby Johnson spoke with Face.com CEO Gil Hirsch about his company, Face.com, and the potential of facial recognition software. In her interview with Hirsch, they touched on the potential of facial recognition software bein... |
| 10.05.2012 | iPhone camera app learns your appearance by your Facebook pics | In the three months ending on March 31, 2012, there were more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook every single day. Not only is it a staggering amount of content to organize, but it is also a huge stockpile of graphical data that c... |
| 10.05.2012 | KLIK, The Face-Detecting iPhone App, Heads Into Production | KLIK, the real-time, facial recognition iPhone camera app from Face.com, has released its official 1.0 version today. (The previous version, which debuted in January, was a beta). The production version of the app includes significantly enh... |
| 29.03.2012 | Fake ID holders beware: facial recognition service Face.com can now detect your age | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facial-recognition platform Face.com could foil the plans of all those under-age kids looking to score some booze. Fake IDs might not f... |
| 27.01.2012 | Face.com Launches KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial Recognition Camera App For iPhone | Facial recognition company Face.com has just released a new mobile application that takes advantage of its technology to identify the faces of your friends in photos. Called “KLIK,” the app is a real-time, facial recognition mobile camera a... |
| 13.10.2011 | Key Russian social network adds facial recognition to photos | Odnoklassniki, is the second largest social network in Russia, behind Vkontakte, and is part of the recently floated Mail.Ru Group. Facebook’s market share in Russia has never passed 5%, according to ComScore (or 5 million people a month). ... |
| 08.09.2011 | TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Details! | The fourth annual TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon is just around the corner! Spend an intense 24 hours hacking, learning and presenting with the Bay Area’s finest developers.On Sunday morning, you’ll have a chance to demo your hack in front of... |
| 16.03.2011 | Techonomy3 is go! See you in Tel Aviv | A few weeks ago I had the privilege of visiting Tel Aviv for the first time and meeting some local mobile companies ahead of Mobile World Congress. What I found was an incredible entrepreneurial environment. Just four hours away from London... |
| 13.02.2011 | Why Engineers Are Better Off Joining Startups | Editor’s note: Guest author Bindu Reddy is the CEO of MyLikes, a word-of-mouth ad network funded by former Googlers. Previously at Google she managed a team of product managers in charge of various Google apps including Google Docs, Google ... |
| 10.02.2011 | Face.com's API Now Lets Developers Scan 5,000 Photos Per Hour, Free Of Charge | Face.com initially rolled out its REST API, which allows developers to tap its awesome facial recognition technology for use in their own websites and applications, almost a year ago. Today, the startup is moving the API from ‘alpha’ to ‘be... |
| 27.09.2010 | Facial Recognition Tech Startup Face.com Raises $4.3M From Yandex And Others | Yandex, operator of Russia’s largest search engine, has invested in Tel-Aviv based facial recognition technology startup Face.com, marking its first investment in an Israeli company. In total, Face.com has raised $4.3 million in Series B fu... |
| 27.09.2010 | Face.com pulls in $4.3M in financing | Rhodium and Yandex bet on the Israeli-based facial-recognition startup
How recognizable are you in a crowd? According to Face.com, a Tel-Aviv-based company that develops facial recognition technology, you can be pinpointed in a Facebook cro... |
| 30.08.2010 | Polar Rose Shuts Down Its Flickr/Facebook Facial Recognition Service | Polar Rose, a Swedish-based facial recognition startup launched in summer 2007, is shutting down its consumer-facing service that allowed users to tag people in photos anywhere on the Web. Last spring, the innovative company introduced faci... |
| 03.05.2010 | 7 Billion Scanned Photos Later, Face.com Opens Up To Developers | Facial recognition technology startup Face.com publicly launched at last year’s Techonomy event in Tel Aviv, Israel. Today thus marks an excellent time for them to make some announcements, as it is the evening prior to Techonomy 2010, which... |
| 03.05.2010 | Face.com takes its face-recognition technology beyond Facebook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Face.com has scanned more than 7 billion photos i... |
| 03.05.2010 | Face.com takes its face-recognition technology beyond Facebook | Face.com has scanned more than 7 billion photos in the past year, indexing more than 52 million faces with its Photo Finder and Photo tagger apps on Facebook. Now it is expanding beyond the social network by launching a developer tool that ... |
| 21.01.2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Israel | Israel isn’t just an emerging tech hub, it’s a hotbed of activity and has been for many years. Per capita, Israel has the most startup companies and spends more on research and development than any other nation in the world. Israelis lay cl... |
| 11.11.2009 | Photo Tagger Alerts You When A Picture Of You Appears On Facebook, Tagged Or Not | Israeli facial recognition tech startup Face.com made quite a splash when it launched Photo Finder, its first Facebook app, back in March. It soon followed suit with a new app called Photo Tagger, a tool that is capable of finding photos of... |
| 21.07.2009 | Photo Tagger: Facial Recognition for Auto-Tagging Facebook Photos | We have invites, click through to get yours!
Earlier this year, a company called Face.com brought facial recognition technology to Facebook by way of an application called Photo Finder which scanned through untagged photos and identified th... |
| 21.07.2009 | It's Bulk Facebook Photo Tagging Time with Face.com Photo Tagger (Invites) | Face.com made a splash when it launched Photo Finder it’s first Facebook app back in March. The app employed some pretty impressive facial recognition that scanned Facebook photo albums to discover untagged photos of users and their friends... |
| 14.05.2009 | Find The Clown: Face.com Tags 400 Million Facebook Photos In 30 Days (More Invites) | Facial recognition is going to be crucial to being able to search, organize, and discover photos online. One promising startup tackling this problem is Face.com, which launched in private beta 30 days ago as a Facebook application. It scour... |
| 24.03.2009 | Facial Recognition Comes to Facebook | This morning, Face.com announced that they’re bringing advanced facial recognition technology to Facebook by way of a new application called Photo Finder. Using proprietary facial scanning algorithms, this application scans through your pho... |
| 24.03.2009 | Face.com Brings Facial Recognition To Facebook Photos (We Have Invites) | If there is one feature on Facebook which delivers “social utility” magic even to the most average of users, it’s Photos. In fact the feature is so popular that by Facebook’s own account 1 billion photos are uploaded every month—a staggerin... |
| 24.03.2009 | Find untagged photos of your Facebook friends with Face.com’s Photo Finder | This one is kinda scary because of how well it works. Face.com‘s new Photo Finder application for Facebook helps you automatically discover public photos that you and your friends may have forgotten to tag — and it also lets you track untag... |
| - | Facebook купил проект по распознаванию лиц Face.com | Facebook купил проект по распознаванию лиц Face.com
19 Июня, 2012, 09:44
Ольга Карпенко
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Слухи о новой покупке Facebook подтвердились — в блоге команды Face.com размещено сообщение о том, что Facebook официально купила сервис. Сумма сд... |
| - | На новом приобретении Facebook заработал Яндекс | Наконец подтвердилась информация о новой сделке Facebook - покупке израильской компании разработчика технологий распознавания лиц Face.com. Информацию также подтвердил глава Face.com Джил Хирш в блоге компании.
Он также пообещал сохранить н... |
| - | Google покупает социальный сервис Meebo за $100 млн | Google покупает социальный сервис Meebo за $100 млн
05 Июня, 2012, 10:00
Ольга Карпенко
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Компания Google приобретает компанию Meebo с аудиторией в 100 млн. активных пользователей в месяц. Среди продуктов компании есть сервис мгновенно... |
| - | В IPO Facebook не нашли нарушений | В IPO Facebook не нашли нарушений
31 Мая, 2012, 09:09
Ольга Карпенко
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Американские власти, проверяющие процедуру выхода социальной сети Facebook на Nasdaq Stock Market, не нашли свидетельств нарушений, сообщает The Wall Street Journal... |
| - | IPO сети «ВКонтакте» отложили из-за Facebook | IPO сети «ВКонтакте» отложили из-за Facebook
29 Мая, 2012, 15:36
Ольга Карпенко
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Первичное публичное размещение акций соцсети «ВКонтакте» отложили на неопределенный срок из-за того, что после IPO Facebook некоторые инвесторы разочаров... |
| - | Business briefs | Facebook buys face.com
NEW YORK >> Facebook is bringing one of its long-term vendors, facial recognition technology company Face.com, in-house.
The Israeli company’s technology helps people tag photos on the Web by figuring out who is... |
| - | В Facebook готовятся к покупке проекта Face.com | В Facebook готовятся к покупке проекта Face.com
29 Мая, 2012, 14:32
Александр Мельник
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Как сообщает Mashable со ссылкой на израильское бизнес-издание Calcalist, команда Facebook находится в стадии переговров с проектом распознавания лиц... |
