| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.04.2024 | Eye On AI: Microsoft’s G42 Deal Could Bring More AI Money, Tech To UAE | 0 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here.
The big news in AI this week was undoubtedly Microsoft’s huge $1.5 billion strategic investment in United Arab Emira... |
| 19.11.2012 | Q&A with Chris Dixon on Joining Andreessen Horowitz: ‘I’m Going to be Very Aggressively Looking for Investments in New York’ | Mr. Dixon
Earlier today, serial entrepreneur and investor Chris Dixon made it official. The cofounder of SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee) and Hunch (acquired by eBay), who invests both personally and through Founder Collective, will be deca... |
| 22.05.2012 | Why The iPhone’s Success Has Women To Thank | Women are the hot new demographic to court in the social space (if you can call half the population a “demographic”), but the fairer sex is catching up when it comes to mobile, too, largely thanks to the iPhone. But is Apple’s gender-blind ... |
| 03.05.2012 | eBay’s new East Coast HQ boosts New York tech scene | Trending in more ways than one, eBay announced it would be the latest Silicon Valley tech giant to expand to New York to explore new opportunities in Big Data.
Hot on the heels of Twitter, the e-commerce and payments company chose a 35,000 ... |
| 27.04.2012 | (Founder Stories) Send The Trend’s Gugnani & Chris Dixon Discuss M&A | In episode II of Divya Gugnani’s Founder Stories interview with host Chris Dixon, the two dive into M&A, a topic that both founders know well. Dixon’s company Hunch, was recently acquired by eBay and Gugnani’s company, Send The Trend wa... |
| 05.02.2012 | Personalized eCommerce Is Already Here, You Just Don’t Recognize It | Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Nir Eyal (@nireyal), a founder of two startups and an advisor to several Bay Area incubators. Nir blogs about technology and behavior design at nirandfar.com.
Reading Leena Rao’s recent article o... |
| 23.11.2011 | eBay Comes To NYC | A lot of the coverage of eBay's acquisition of Hunch has focused on the possibility of much better recommendations on eBay. And I'm sure we will see that. Think about login with Twitter and get personalized recommendations on eBay. Hunch's ... |
| 21.11.2011 | EBay snaps up taste-recommendation site Hunch for $80M | Hunch's taste-predicting algorithm will put eBay in the loop on all your spending habits
Ecommerce service eBay announced Monday its acquisition of Hunch, an online platform that scans user data and offers user recommendations based on tast... |
| 21.11.2011 | eBay snaps up recommendations service Hunch | eBay has acquired recommendations platform Hunch, according to a press release issued Monday morning. The company did not disclose terms of the deal.
Sources told former TechCrunch editor-in-chief and current CrunchFund investor Michael Arr... |
| 21.11.2011 | eBay Buys Hunch To Improve Long-Tail Shopping Recommendations | Hunch, a service that provides a “taste graph” of personalized recommendations based on users’ interests, has just been bought by auction site eBay, the companies have confirmed. The amount hasn’t officially been disclosed, but Michael Arri... |
| 21.11.2011 | eBay snaps up recommendations service Hunch | 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!
eBay has acquired recommendations platform Hunch,... |
| 21.11.2011 | Hunch, Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Acquired by EBay | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
New York’s Hunch, which uses its technology to provide data insights on what consumers want, said on its blog Monday that it was acquired by online auction heavyweight eBay (N... |
| 21.11.2011 | eBay buys Hunch to better guess what you will buy | In an effort the provide better personalized recommendations, eBay has acquired privately-held Hunch, a two-year-old service that suggests content on the Internet based on personal tastes. The auction service expects Hunch to integrate into... |
| 21.11.2011 | eBay Acquires Hunch | eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) has acquired Hunch, an online platform that delivers customized recommendations to its users based on their individual tastes.
Launched in 2009, Hunch has developed patented prediction technology, also known as a “ta... |
| 21.11.2011 | eBay Bets $80 Million on Personalization, Acquires Recommendation Technology Hunch | Every ecommerce site needs to customize and personalize products for fast-moving Internet consumers. eBay is no stranger to this. In a quest to further personalize its recommendations, today eBay acquired Hunch.com. It will use the new tech... |
| 25.10.2011 | Fine-Tune Your Netflix Recommendations With Hunch’s New Movie Predictor | How can you improve the results of one of the Web’s most effective and respected recommendation engines? By pairing it up with another one.
That’s exactly what the team at Hunch has done. The personalized recommendation service launched the... |
| 17.08.2011 | iPhones are for the rich, Androids for the rest of us [Infographic] | It's Tuesday in mid August. You're not really working are you? So how about another juicy Hunch infographic comparing Android and iOS users. Let's be honest -- Hunch's findings, culled from more than 15,000 people -- are about one thing: cl... |
| 16.08.2011 | Are iPhone users more educated than Android users? | A survey by Hunch suggests iPhone users are more educated and wealthier than Android users
If iPhone and Android users had their own TV show, then iPhone users would be the snooty, ultra-refined chianti-drinking star of the show, and Androi... |
| 15.08.2011 | Androids Are For Cheap Pessimists, iPhones Are For Worldly Optimists | Ever wonder what’s the real difference between Android and iPhone users? According to Hunch, Android users are 10 percent more likely to be men, skew younger, and 20 percent more likely to be politically conservative. As you can see from th... |
| 01.08.2011 | Google’s New Traveler Recommendations Point Towards an Age of Algorithms | Google’s Places today expanded its offerings to include restaurant and place recommendations in cities neither you nor anyone you know has recommended before. Recommendations to date have been because “you rated a place like this highly.” T... |
| 01.08.2011 | Record Label Launches Spotify Playlist Site, Launch Goes Down in Flames | Universal Music Group launched a new website today called Digster.fm, where a team of music editors curates playlists that can be listened to through music service Spotify. Spotify is great, curation is a creative act with incredible potent... |
| 27.06.2011 | The Limits of Big Data | Greg Borenstein takes on what he sees as the dominant view among the elite geeks at FooCamp in a recent blog post. According to Borenstein, the theme embraced at FooCamp was “big data will save us.”
Borenstein raises some excellent points a... |
| 20.06.2011 | Flickr Co-Founder Fake Announces New Mobile Startup | Caterina Fake is one of the most interesting thinkers on the web. She co-founded social photo sharing site Flickr and turned it into one of the world’s most important websites by focusing on creating a culture of customer service and commun... |
| 05.04.2011 | Hunch Brings Predictions to Internet TV | One of the big reasons Netflix is so successful isn’t just that it’s cheap and available over the Internet. The service keeps track of what you watch, takes into account your ratings of different content, and then makes suggestions for what... |
| 14.02.2011 | Nerds Ditch Grammys for New York's First Music Hackday | With more references to Justin Bieber than a Valentine’s day party at an all-girls Canadian middle school, Music Hackday rolled into New York City this past weekend. Event organizers John Britton and Dave Haynes noted this had been the bigg... |
| 10.02.2011 | (Founder Stories) Fred Wilson On Frothy Valuations | With acquisition feelers out to Twitter for a reported $8 billion to $10 billion, bubble talk is once again the topic of discussion. It’s a recurring theme, and on this episode of Founder Stories venture capitalist Fred Wilson talks to Chri... |
| 21.01.2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| 14.01.2011 | Something’s Keeping Wikipedia from Becoming a Platform | Creativity, they say, always builds on the past. So too do many wonderful things on the internet. What could be better to build the future on top of than our collective knowledge of the world as represented by Wikipedia? One startup technol... |
| 07.01.2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| 29.12.2010 | Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2010 | Every year ReadWriteWeb selects the top 10 products or developments across a range of categories. We kick off the 2010 ‘Best Of’ series with our selection of the top 10 Semantic Web products and implementations of the year.
This year we’ve ... |
| 22.12.2010 | NYC Big Apps Version 2.0 | Last year NYC ran a mobile and web app developer contest called NYC Big Apps. I posted about it and was one of a number of judges. The city and the participating developers thought it was a successful effort and so NYC Big Apps is back for ... |
| 18.12.2010 | Startup Sherpa: Serving Two Masters And Changing Consumer Behavior (Part II) | Yesterday, we debuted Part I of Startup Sherpa, a new show with angel investor (Founder Collective) and Hunch founder Chris Dixon talking to Stickybits CEO Billy Chasen about when is the right time for a startup to pivot.
Today, in Part II ... |
| 17.12.2010 | Startup Sherpa: Chris Dixon And Stickybits CEO Billy Chasen Talk About Pivoting (Part I) | Welcome to Startup Sherpa, a new show we are piloting on TechCrunch TV. Rather than have one of us at TechCrunch interview subjects, we thought we’d try something different. Startup Sherpa is more a conversation between founders that we get... |
| 17.12.2010 | Etsy Experiments with New Recommendation Engine | Handmade marketplace Etsy is experimenting with its own recommendation engine technology called the Etsy Taste Test. The tool, available at tastetest.etsy.com, offers you a short quiz where you click photos of things you like. You can choos... |
| 10.12.2010 | The Hunch Gift-O-Matic Churns Out Holiday Gift Ideas For Your Twitter Pals | Right about now, a lot of us are scratching our heads about what to give people for the holidays. Well, if the person you are looking for uses Twitter a lot, try Hunch’s new Gift-O-Matic. You just plug in their Twitter handle, and Hunch spi... |
| 27.11.2010 | The Myth Of Serendipity | Editor’s note: Henry “Hank” Nothhaft, Jr. is the co-founder and CMO of Trapit, a virtual personal assistant for Web content still in private beta that was incubated out of SRI and the CALO project (as was Siri, the conversational search eng... |
| 24.11.2010 | Your Income, Home Ownership & Parenthood Status Now Available as an API | Personal information aggregation service Rapleaf announced to its developers today that it now offers “lifestyle” information like home ownership status, occupation and income corresponding with any email or postal address in its database.
... |
| 23.11.2010 | Gifts.com has a Hunch what your friends want | Partnership between online retailer and recommendation engine an obvious match, but is it perfect?
Is it possible? Could it be true? Is the Internet really trying to kill generic gift giving?
Gifts.com, a shopping site whose traffic must tu... |
| 21.10.2010 | Change The Ratio Discussion | The Change The Ratio group met last night at Hunch's offices down the street. I sat with #changetheratio founder Rachel Sklar and talked about the "women in tech" discussion.
Here's a link to the entire video. It's long but for th... |
| 14.10.2010 | HowMutch Will Brands Pay To Get You To Answer Questions About Their Products? | Social Q&A sites seem to be springing up all over the place these days. There’s Quora and Formspring, and even the way you train Hunch is by answering a series of personal questions. But those are all general purpose question sites. A b... |
| 12.10.2010 | TC Teardown: 13 Ways To Get To $10 Million In Revenues (Part II) | Editor’s note: This post is the second part of an analysis of different consumer Internet business models by guest author Steven Carpenter. It is suggested that you first read Part I.
Most consumer Internet startups fall into a baker’s doze... |
| 08.10.2010 | Startups Started By Former Yahoo Employees [Graphic] | Oh Quora! You’ve done it again. This time with the utterly fascinating “What startups have been started by former Yahoo employees?” thread which provides a pretty comprehensive list from AClevertwist.com to Ycombinator.com (Quick, some ex-Y... |
| 08.10.2010 | Ask A VC: Chris Dixon Solves Your Problems [TCTV] | Well, I guess all I had to do was ask. After my mopey post Monday I got flooded with questions for Chris Dixon, and the nature of the questions has taken a decidedly “Dear Abby” spin. Dozens of you asked for Dixon’s advice on specific probl... |
| 05.10.2010 | How Hunch Went From Q&A to Guessing Your Preferences: An Interview With Caterina Fake | Caterina Fake was one of the co-founders of Flickr, an iconic web 2.0 online photo service that was sold to Yahoo. Her latest product is Hunch, a service that started out as a Q&A service but is now being positioned as a personalization... |
| 30.09.2010 | Hunch Makes My Dreams Come True | As a developer, you probably understand the need to fix bugs and the joy that comes with that commit. You know the one. The commit that says “did it in a minute”. Why not have a little fun when you commit? When there’s a team, the fun keeps... |
| 27.09.2010 | Real-time Questions Get Answered with Replyz | While Google and Yahoo Answers still offer a place to pose your questions, new Q&A products and forums have been popping up like dandelions in an open meadow lately. Some of the most recent products include Aardvark, which sold to Googl... |
| 27.09.2010 | Hungry? The State of Food Recommendation Engines | Where should we eat lunch? What should we have for dinner tonight? Recommendation engines try to match our tastes to music, movies and books – why not help us answer these other eternal questions? Here are a few sites that try to do just th... |
| 21.09.2010 | Entire Tech World Piles On Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz | After an analyst reported that Yahoo, Inc stock was worth “less than nothing” today, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made an apparently unsuccessful case for her company’s value to Wall Street during a Q&A at the Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia Confe... |
| 15.09.2010 | Hunch Exports Taste Graph Via API, Business Model Emerges | Recommendation engine Hunch is rolling out partnerships with seven large sites to provide personalized recommendations for their products, services, or content. Interactive Corp’s Gifts.com, Bluefly, Buzzfeed, Heyzap, ShopStyle, Milo and Fa... |
| 11.09.2010 | You Are So Predictomatic: Play The Hunch Facebook Predictor Game | Recommendation engine Hunch usually asks you a few questions and can then help you decide things like whether or not you’ll be happy with a porsche. Or they can look at data another way, and show that TechCrunch readers tend to be optimists... |
| 30.08.2010 | Equity vs. Convertible Debt: VCs Debate Shifting Investment Trends | In the latest example of VC chatter – wherein multiple venture capitalists simultaneously blog about a hot issue – the topic du jour is the debate between convertible debt and equity rounds. The spark came from a Friday night tweet by Y Com... |
| 28.08.2010 | Developing Your Business By Marketing Your API | Last week, Alex Williams posted a list in ReadWriteWeb’s Cloud Computing channel of the “!0 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers.” Alex’s post points to some of the problems that occur in both the technical and the business realms of API d... |
| 22.08.2010 | Hunch Tries Local Recommendations | Recommendation site Hunch has been going through a reboot lately. Back in June, it stopped showing results to people who are not signed in, and earlier this month it redesigned its home page to offer personalized taste recommendations acros... |
| 05.08.2010 | A new Hunch points to the money with behavioral targeting | 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!
Hunch, the “decision engine” startup cofounded by... |
| 05.08.2010 | A new Hunch points to the money with behavioral targeting | Hunch, the “decision engine” startup cofounded by Chris Dixon (pictured) and Flickr’s Caterina Fake, today announced it has refined its homepage and service to include users’ personalized recommendations front and center.
With this change t... |
| 04.08.2010 | Hunch Relaunches as Internet Personalization Service | Hunch was never a social Q&A service, though many press outlets have confused it for one. The service, founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and super-hot angel investor Chris Dixon, has relaunched its home page and is now more cle... |
| 15.06.2010 | Big Change At Hunch; Caterina Fake Predicts "Traffic Will Plummet," But Quality Will Rise | Decision site Hunch is making a big change today which co-founder Caterina Fake predicts will cut traffic in half, at least, but improve the overall experience for those who remain. The site will no longer be open to users who don’t log in,... |
| 14.06.2010 | Picture This: Yahoo Finally Takes Control Of Flicker.com For Flickr | As one of the most popular social sites on the planet, Flickr is also undoubtedly one of the most popular misspelled domains. Pronounced “Flicker,” Flickr decided to be all Web 2.0-cutesy with its name back in the day. That’s fine, except w... |
| 11.06.2010 | Dogster And Catster Go To The Groomer, Come Out With Freshly Curated Fur | When it comes to social sites on the Internet, Dogster and Catster have to be doing something right — they’ve been profitable for the past three years. But that doesn’t mean they should just sit back and not tweak the sites at all to offer ... |
| 09.06.2010 | A College Student and a CEO: A Profile of 21 Year Old Entrepreneur Jay Rodrigues | In April, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake wrote a provocatively titled blog post: “Want to be an entrepreneur? Drop out of college.” Her arguments were on my mind when I met Jay Rodrigues in early May. The 21-year-old University o... |
| 04.06.2010 | 10 Incredible People Coming to the Real-Time Web Summit | The ReadWriteWeb Real-Time Web Summit in New York City is just one week away! We’ll be working hard together on understanding the future of real-time data delivery, social networking, media, industry and more. Unlike standard conferences wh... |
| 01.06.2010 | PeerPong takes an expert approach to the heated Q & A space | 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!
The field of startups taking on questions and ans... |
| 01.06.2010 | PeerPong takes an expert approach to the heated Q & A space | The field of startups taking on questions and answers is about to get a little more crowded.
PeerPong, a San Francisco-based startup that helps people find experts to answer their questions, launched its beta today. PeerPong scours peoples’... |
| 28.05.2010 | If You Like Moustaches on Men – You’ll Love These Restaurants | Cross reference a person’s Twitter friendships with their Foursquare favorites with their Hunch.com articulated “taste graph” and what do you get? Interesting personalized restaurant recommendations, for one thing.
Taste-gathering startup H... |
| 24.05.2010 | Tony Blair to Advise Silicon Valley Green-Tech VC Firm Khosla Ventures | Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is joining Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Khosla Ventures as a public policy advisor for the firm’s green-tech investments, according to a press release from the firm today. Founded by Vin... |
| 19.05.2010 | VCs Voice Opinions as Carried Interest Debate Nears Conclusion | The United States Congress, which has been debating the issue of carried interest and capital gains tax for quite some time now, may be inching towards a solution as a vote is expected on the issue some time this week. As we’ve discusses as... |
| 17.05.2010 | Business Plan Competitions: Valuable Tool or Waste of Time? | Entrepreneur and professor Steve Blank authored a blog this morning that expressed his opinion that business plan competitions are useless to startup culture and should be scrapped for business model competitions. Business plan competitions... |
| 16.05.2010 | Wikipedia founder tries to remove alleged kiddie porn, then gives up editorial privileges | [Update: Jimmy Wales tweeted me to say the change to his editorial status is “A purely technical matter. I am not stepping down or pulling back from anything.”
For my sourcing beyond Fox, see this discussion page at Wikimedia, which documen... |
| 10.05.2010 | Web 3.0, The Movie [Video] | So much stuff. That’s the general theme of a new short film, Web 3.0, by Kate Ray, a Journalism/Psychology major at NYU.
The 15-minute film (embedded below) is a pretty good general overview of the semantic web. That is, turning all of the ... |
| 30.04.2010 | The Role of Education in Entrepreneurship | On Wednesday of this week, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake wrote a provocatively titled blog suggesting that wanna-be entrepreneurs should drop out of college. She based this opinion on the amount of successful companies founded b... |
| 08.04.2010 | Is Flying Under the Radar Better Than Being Stealth? | They seem to be becoming less popular lately, but not too long ago “stealth” startups were a growing fad in the Internet entrepreneurship sector. A team with a big idea would insist on keeping their business a secret from the public and eve... |
| 07.04.2010 | The Twitter Platform's Inflection Point | I was emailing with a friend of mine yesterday who is a 30 year veteran of silicon valley. He'd written a post that was quite positive about the iPad. I sent him my post which wasn't so positive. We had a good discussion. Which ended with m... |
| 07.04.2010 | The Twitter platform's inflection point | It's time to start seeing new killer apps for Twitter emerge
I was emailing with a friend of mine yesterday who is a 30 year veteran of silicon valley. He'd written a post that was quite positive about the iPad. I sent him my post which was... |
| 25.03.2010 | Just a Hunch: TechCrunch's Twitter Followers Are Entrepreneurial, Gadget-Loving Optimists | The problem with having more than a million followers on Twitter, or even more than 1,000, is that you don’t really know who they are. But Hunch thinks it knows a lot about the followers of at least popular Twitter users. It is now pulling ... |
| 23.03.2010 | A Conversation With Hunch Cofounder Caterina Fake | New York based Hunch is on a bit of a roll. Users have now answered 50 millions questions on the service, which uses your answers to help give you recommendations for just about anything. Investors have taken note of their progress, and the... |
| 20.03.2010 | Hunch's Twitter Predictor Game Is Awesomely Accurate | When I first read about Hunch’s Twitter Predictor game, I was pretty skeptical. The game asks you to put in your Twitter user name and based on who you follow and who you are followed by, it predicts how you will answer questions on Hunch. ... |
| 15.03.2010 | Decision engine Hunch confirms $12M led by Khosla | Hunch, the search engine co-founded by Flickr’s Caterina Fake to help consumers make better decisions, has confirmed (via Fake’s blog) that it raised a $12 million second round of funding led by Khosla Ventures. As we suspected last week, G... |
| 15.03.2010 | Decision engine Hunch confirms $12M led by Khosla | 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!
Hunch, the search engine co-founded by Flickr’s C... |
| 15.03.2010 | Is The Path Between VCs and Entrepreneurs A One-Way Street? | Over the weekend, Frist Round Capital Entrepreneur in Residence Charlie O’Donnell wrote an interesting blog post that is making its way around the venture capital and startup communities and drawing a variety of responses. O’Donnell suggest... |
| 14.03.2010 | Hunch Takes $12 Million From Khosla Ventures, Adds Former Facebook CFO To Board Of Directors | Recommendation engine Hunch confirms that they’ve raised a new round of financing – $12 million – led by Khosla Ventures. Partner Gideon Yu, who joined Khosla Ventures last year, was previously the CFO of Facebook. He is now joining Hunch’s... |
| 12.03.2010 | Decision engine Hunch raises $10M (report) | 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!
Hunch.com, the startup co-founded by Flickr co-fo... |
| 12.03.2010 | Decision engine Hunch raises $10M (report) | Hunch.com, the startup co-founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, has raised $10 million in a second round of funding, according to AllThingsDigital. Citing unidentified sources, the report says the funding was led by Khosla Ventures, w... |
| 01.03.2010 | Escape from New York: Is the Valley Necessary? | In an effort to highlight some of the emerging tech centers across the world we’ve written on a number of cities for our Never Mind the Valley series. We’ve featured the funding and opportunities available in places like Washington DC, Bang... |
| 26.02.2010 | Chris Dixon Bests Conway, Hoffman For Top Tech Angel Spot | On Wednesday, BusinessWeek released their list of the top 25 angel investors in the tech industry, naming Hunch co-founder Chris Dixon ahead of veteran angels Ron Conway and Reid Hoffman. Conway and Hoffman are two of the most influential a... |
| 26.02.2010 | Yahoo Answers Gets A Much-Needed Facelift | Back in October, Yahoo revealed that Yahoo Answers sees 30 million questions and answers per month, with users contributing 2.4 questions and answers per second. Although Yahoo Answers sees a significant amount of traffic, its design and la... |
| 23.02.2010 | Hunch’s Caterina Fake On Fusing Ideas With Teams | In our recent discussions of branding for startups and entrepreneurs, we’ve mentioned that marketing and branding is always harder to do when what you’re trying to sell isn’t a quality product. Successful startup products tend to fit into a... |
| 15.02.2010 | If Love is About Communication, Why is Facebook Holding Back? | Facebook this weekend published a special Valentine’s day study about romantic relationships and happiness. The company’s Data Team sliced and diced the language used in millions of peoples’ status messages, then looked at how they varied d... |
| 03.02.2010 | Factual Raises $1 Million Seed Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab, And Angels | If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as Gil Elbaz did with Applied Semantics, you don’t have any problem finding investors when you want to start a new venture. Elbaz sold Applied Semantics to Google for $100 million in... |
| 04.01.2010 | Hunch.com checks out healthy at six months | 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!
Hunch.com, introduced to us in a early version la... |
| 04.01.2010 | Hunch.com checks out healthy at six months | Hunch.com, introduced to us in a early version last March, has demonstrated a growing user base and ever-better utility to go along with its fun-to-use design work.
For those not in the know, Hunch is a site designed to take some of the “co... |
| 31.12.2009 | From A Geek's Geek: Daniel Raffel's Favorite New Projects, Products and Features of 2009 | When Daniel Raffel emailed and asked if we’d be interested in publishing his list of favorite stuff from 2009 we quickly agreed. He has worked on some of the more interesting projects in Silicon Valley over the last couple of years, and has... |
| 20.12.2009 | After A Few Fits And Starts, Hunch Begins To Sprint In The Right Direction | Sometimes it takes a while for a site to find its legs. Hunch, which launched last March to much fanfare, is only now in the past few months capturing the attention of consumers. As the comScore chart above shows, Hunch recently hit a growt... |
| 16.12.2009 | Gadget advice site Measy will tell you which smartphone to buy | Gadget-recommendation service Measy launched a smartphone tool this week to help users find the perfect smartphone based on their needs. The engine asks users their ideal price as well as the importance of several factors including carrier,... |
| 16.12.2009 | Gadget advice site Measy will tell you which smartphone to buy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gadget-recommendation service Measy launched a smartphone tool this week to help users find the perfect smartphone based on their needs... |
| 07.12.2009 | Hunch Gets A New Board Member: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales | Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is joining decision-making engine Hunch’s board of directors and will serve as an advisor to the startup. Hunch was recently launched by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake as a platform to help users make decision... |
| 09.11.2009 | Founder Collective fund rounds up Flickr, LiveOps co-founders and $40 million | It’s become a cliche: Internet start-ups are inexpensive to launch, and you don’t need multi-million dollars from venture capitalists to back you anymore. As a result, more successful startup founders are adding a new hat, and becoming inve... |
| 08.11.2009 | The AVC Reader Census: A Day Later | Almost 750 people took the AVC Reader Census/Survey in the past 24 hours. That’s a decent sample size. So if you want to know what the readership of this blog looks like, go here.
I’m sorry to say that it is overwhelmingly male, 92% of the ... |
| 07.11.2009 | The AVC Reader Census | We (Nathan and me) added a new widget to this blog yesterday. It’s on the right sidebar above the Flickr photo widget. The purpose of this widget is to answer a few questions about the people who read this blog.
If you wish, you can take th... |
| 31.10.2009 | Two New Ways To Find A Better Place To Stay On The Road | My partner Albert said this a week or two ago on his blog:
When people ask me whether investing in web services is a long-term opportunity, I often say that “we ain’t seen nothing yet.”
I was reminded of that when I went to the web to find ... |
| 15.10.2009 | Who's Scorched Up comScore In September, You Ask? | What site has jumped five spots between August and September to become the 13th most visited site in the US, leapfrogging properties like New York Times and Viacom Digital?
Here are some hints: It’s listed on the NASDAQ. It was founded in I... |
