Agenda Announced for SemTech
The agenda for the 2011 SemTech conference and expo in San Francisco in June has been released. A full spectrum of business, government, and consumer activity is scheduled around the field of semantic technology.
Q&A Startup Stops
The paint is barely dry on the closed sign for Q&A start-up PeerPong, but competitor Formspring has already picked up PeerPong CEO Ro Choy to serve as its COO, as well as a few other former PeerPong employees.
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.