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« Previous Entries Next Entries »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 [...]
Watch out Craigslist, Sister Site Kijiji Is Taking Off.
Friday, February 15th, 2008It’s not yet a Craigslist killer, but eBay’s free classifieds site Kijiji is taking off in the U.S. eBay, of course, is also an investor in Craigslist, but its 25 percent stake doesn’t give it a controlling interest and the other 75 percent is not for sale. So in March, 2005, eBay launched Kijiji as [...]
Google Search Goes to Millions of Nokia Handsets
Friday, February 15th, 2008What would you get if you combined two giant companies in their respective industries? Better services for customers and better income for both companies. I guess this must be what Google and Nokia folks are thinking right now, when both companies reached a deal whereby Google search will be integrated into Nokia’s mobile handsets.
At first, [...]
Yahoo Seen in News Corp. Talks But Analysts Dubious
Friday, February 15th, 2008Yahoo is in talks on a possible deal with News Corp., but analysts said an alternative was unlikely to emerge to rival Microsoft Corp.’s bid for Yahoo, now valued at $42.1 billion.
News of the talks to combine their Web properties was first reported by the Silicon Alley Insider blog on Monday, which said one proposal [...]
GOOG-411 Is Out Of Beta
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007This is another post that shows Google is one more step closer to world domination (Internet Marketing)
The Google Blog announced that GOOG-411, Google’s voice enabled search service, is now out of beta.
To use GOOG-411 just dial 1-800-466-4411 (aka 800-GOOG-411) and listen to the voice prompts. As part of a promotion for GOOG-411 leaving beta, Google [...]
Facebook Has LinkedIn In Their Crosshairs
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Facebook may be used for professional networking (particularly in Silicon Valley), but it sure isn’t set up to be. People’s profiles are all about their dating status, pictures, videos and other very personal information. It’s perfect for college dorm networking, but not so much for job or business development hunting.
LinkedIn, by contrast, is set up [...]
The Other Half of the Search Equation
Sunday, October 14th, 2007A search company’s mandate is clear: help people find exactly what they’re looking for as quickly as possible. For well over a decade, search companies have taken the approach of focusing almost all of their efforts on making their engines smarter, with better indexes, better ranking and faster servers.
While these are all hugely important efforts, [...]
Can Wal-Mart Revolutionize CPG Once Again With Product Reviews?
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Consumer Packaged Goods giant Wal-Mart online. Although they’re clearly trying to beef up their own stockpile of (WMT) is once again changing the game when it comes to multi-channel e-commerce strategy. The big news this time is that they’re encouraging some 1.3 million employees to review productsonline reviews (after adding the feature in [...]
There’s More To The FaceBook Traffic Story
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Om Malik says Facebook traffic is tanking, based on the September Comscore data which shows a 9.3% decline in uniques v. steady uniques at MySpace.There’s a problem though - he’s showing unique visitor data but talking about traffic. The Comscore data for U.S. traffic shows only a 4% decline, from 15.2 billion to 14.7 billion [...]
Google Math: Buy $1,000 in Radio Ads, And We’ll Give You $2,000 Back
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Here’s a good brain teaser for those famous Google job interviews: If you pay me $1,000, and I give you $2,000 back, how much profit does that leave me?
Unfortunately, this is not a hypothetical question. It’s an actual promotion for Google’s radio ad network, known as Google Audio. That’s right, Google is offering $2,000 [...]