Big Data, Big Challenges
Everyone seems to be addressing the challenges of data - managing it, handling it, storing it. However, for startups that challenge is even more daunting.
Time for the Turf War to End
There has been a long time competition, war, or some battle of sorts between website usability and search engine optimization. Each side argues that they know best how to make web pages findable in search engines. The irony? They are both right.
Social Media at Walmart
WalMart Stores has acquired Kosmix, a technology firm which searches and analyzes social media connections in real-time to deliver customized feedback to users.
Location Tool Drives Business
LocalResponse launches its long-awaited public beta of their new tool that allows business owners to respond to their customers to drive transactions. Localresponse.com allows businesses to track their consumers in real time by organizing, indexing and prioritizing various location-based services.
Six Degrees of Indexing
What would it be like to have search sites take your friends’ opinions into account when you look for restaurants? Newspaper sites that use their knowledge of what’s previously captured your attention online to display articles you are interested in? Sounds a lot like Amazon’s technology, doesn’t it?
iGlue On Its Way To Being a Publicly Traded Entity
Power of the Dream Ventures has announced they are going forward on a roadmap for iGlue to take the company public in the United States.
Semantic Search Technology Awarded a Patent
Expert System has been awarded a patient by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Cogito® semantic platform. The patient safeguards Cogito, which relies on deep linguistic analysis and semantic disambiguation of text to ensure a complete understanding of a text without the use of statistics or keyword based technologies.
New Acquisition Beefs up Semantic Search
Intertainment Media Inc. has agreed to buy mobile software and app developer Commobility Inc.