Archive for February 19th, 2008
We cover a lot of startups here at TechCrunch, but I don’t recall ever having covered a startup that thinks it can use artificial intelligence to predict whether other startups will be successful. YouNoodle promises to do just that.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008We cover a lot of startups here at TechCrunch, but I don’t recall ever having covered a startup that thinks it can use artificial intelligence to predict whether other startups will be successful. YouNoodle promises to do just that.
The site opens to the public today, and they chose the NY Times to pitch their product:
Kirill [...]
Chinese Government May Be Concerned About Microsoft’s Takeover of Yahoo
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008An interesting report from Reuters/ eWeek suggests the Chinese Government may be concerned about Microsoft, a firm that uses “monopolistic tactics” buying Yahoo, which will mean Microsoft will become the biggest shareholder in Alibaba, one of China’s biggest internet firms.According to the report Alibaba “will seek a stronger voice for its management team in Microsoft’s [...]
First Look: Kluster’s Market Approach to Crowdsourcing
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Crowdsourcing may work for Wikipedia, but few commercial companies have figured out how to make it work for them. The basic concept is to get outsiders, preferably customers, to swarm together to design a product or complete some other project. Crowdsourcing is quickly becoming a crowded field—there’s Innocentive, Cambrian House, the soon-to-launch CrowdSpirit, and Ideablob, [...]