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| Nov 10, 2011 |
Clearstone Gets Exit At Apture
| Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures has scored an acquisition in its portfolio today, with the acquisition of Apture by Google. Apture announced the acquisition on its website Thursday, but did not disclose any finan... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Google Buys Contextual Rich News Browsing Startup Apture To Beef Up Chrome | Google has acquired Apture, a startup that brings instantaneous search to content on the web, we’ve confirmed with both companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched in 2008, Apture has raised $4.6 million from Beau Vr... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Google Chrome Will Add Search Inside of Every Web Page With Apture Acquisition | I first saw a startup called Apture demonstrated in an off-the-record session at O’Reilly’s by-invite-only FOO Camp several years ago. The room was packed and I had to stand on my toes outside the doorway to see Apture’s Tristan Harris navi... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Google buys Apture to improve Chrome browsing experience | 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!
Apture, maker of in-page search technology, has b... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Google buys Apture to improve Chrome browsing experience | Apture, maker of in-page search technology, has been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum. Apture staff will join Google’s Chrome team and work to improve the browser’s user experience, the startup announced Thursday.
“We were impresse... |
| Jun 29, 2011 | The Web Is Full Of Hyperlinks Waiting To Happen, Apture HotSpots Makes Them Happen | While hyperlinks are a fundamental backbone of the web, they’re also a bit odd. After all, hyperlinking is for the most part a subjective process. Someone decides if and when to link to something. It nudges the web from a completely open st... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | Apture Adds Former About.com CEO Peter Horan To Board; Signs Up More Publishers | We’re big fans of Apture, a startup that brings instantaneous search to content on the web. Today, Apture is announcing a new board member and new publishers using its plug-in. As we’ve written in the past, ‘Apture Highlights’ plugs the “se... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Smart News Readers May Like News360, a New iPad News App | Russian startup News360 released a feature-rich iPad app this morning that makes it easier to learn a lot about current events than does any single news source. The interface isn’t as responsive or as attractive as it could be, but the app ... |
| Dec 29, 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 ... |
| Nov 18, 2010 | Blog plug-in Zemanta scores $3M as it heads towards profitability | Blog plug-in Zemanta has raised $3 million in venture capital as it attempts to bring “semantic” blogging to the rest of the world, the company said Wednesday.
London-based Zemanta bills itself as “Your Blogging Assistant.” It lets bloggers... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Scribd Partners With Apture To Include Rich Media Contextual Browsing Within Content | We wrote about Apture Highlights, a new plug-in that brings instantaneous search to content on the web, a few months ago. Today, Apture has scored a pretty significant deal with document-sharing site Scribd to allow users to use Apture High... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Scribd’s books and magazines get rich links, thanks to Apture | Apture, a startup trying to improve online reading with a smooth way to explore extra content, is rolling out what chief executive Tristan Harris called the company’s biggest implementation yet: Apture’s technology will soon work on the mil... |
| Aug 24, 2010 | Apture Highlights Brings Instantaneous Search To Any Web Page | Apture, the startup that lets online publishers enhance content with rich media pop-ups from a variety of sources based on the context of linked words and terms, is launching a nifty new plug-in today that brings instantaneous search to con... |
| Aug 24, 2010 | Apture Highlights brings richer browsing to any website | Apture, a startup that enriches the online reading experience with pop-up windows of extra content, is making its tool available to readers on any website today with Apture Highlights, a new browser extension.
In some ways, the core of the ... |
| Aug 24, 2010 | Apture for Your Browser: Like Augmented Reality for Web Pages | Apture, the semantic contextual search service that you can see in action by highlighting any word or phrase here on ReadWriteWeb, today launched browser extensions that will allow you to dive deep into any topic you discover on almost any ... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | GekkoLinks brings the best of affiliate links to travel publishers à la Apture | Hotel recommendation engine, Gekko, has just announced the launch of GekkoLinks – a new technology that will definitely be of interest to travel publishers (and other industries to come).
By automatically recognizing hotel names within a te... |
| Dec 2, 2009 | Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2009 | 2009 has seen a lot of Semantic Web and structured data activity. Much of it has been driven by Linked Data, a W3C project which gained momentum this year. According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, Linked Data is a sea chan... |
| Aug 7, 2009 | Spicing Up Your Blog: Apture vs. Zemanta Balloons | Pop-up info windows: someone had to do it right, right? After years of pushy, worthless little window overlays that pop up when you hover over a link, there are now a number of companies trying to offer bloggers and their readers a whole lo... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | Apture Raises $4.1 Million Round For Contextual Rich Media Overlays | Apture, the startup that lets online publishers enhance content with pop-ups that carry rich media from a variety of sources based on the context of linked words and terms, has scored a healthy $4.1 million in Series A financing from Clears... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | Apture raises $4.1M for richer news browsing | Apture, a company that helps publishers integrate multimedia content into their browsing experience, has only been getting better since I last covered it in June, having added new features addressing many of my reservations. And now the San... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | Apture raises $4.1 million | Clearstone funds tool to help publishers enrich their stories and keep the audience on their site
No matter how hard you tap a newspaper, it doesn’t take you to another newspaper, or to Wikipedia, or to the Library of Congress, or to a dict... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | How Loomia Aims to Drive Revenue for Media Websites in 2009 | Loomia is a content recommendations service, used on sites such as the Wall Street Journal and PC World. We’ve profiled Loomia’s Facebook app before, which tracks what you and your Facebook friends are reading on Loomia-supported sites and ... |
| Jan 30, 2009 | Startup2Startup Unites Startup Rookies With Veterans; Five Invites For TechCrunch Readers | Startup2Startup, a popular invite-only Silicon Valley networking event, held its 7th get-together last night, bringing 140 entrepreneurs together. The event is the brainchild of Dave McClure, the venerable startup angel investor who recentl... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | A Guide to The Contextual Web | It’s the end of 2008 and everyone on the Web is hurting due to the economy. But we know that things will get better, because slow-downs eventually bury the old and give birth to new evolutionary ways of doing things.
One of these evolutions... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Le Web Has A Room With A Viewdle – Startup Winners Picked | Le Web, a key event for Europe’s traveling circus of startup communities, ran a pitch competition alongside the main track again this year. It attracted 30 companies from Europe, and a few from the US, across a wide range of sectors and thi... |
| Nov 11, 2008 | Startups to pitch at Le Web in Paris | Europe’s biggest annual event for the tech industry is looming once more, and this year Le Web’s regular startup competition – run alongside the conference itself – has attracted 30 companies from Europe, and a few from the US, across a wid... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Startups selected for Le Web in Paris | Europe’s biggest annual event for the tech industry is looming once more, and this year Le Web’s regular startup competition – run alongside the conference itself – has attracted 30 companies from Europe, and a few from the US, across a wid... |
| Aug 29, 2008 | Some CrunchBase API Stats and Apps | Six weeks ago we launched an API for our technology database, CrunchBase. The idea was to give away lots of clean, structured data about the companies we cover, data that could be used to build new services and improve upon existing ones.
S... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Future of Online Music – Industry Players Discuss | In yesterday’s episode of RWW Live, our live podcast show, our topic was online music and we had 3 very special guests on the show: Dalton Caldwell, founder and CEO of Imeem; Lucas Gonze, founder of Webjay and until recently a senior member... |
| Jun 30, 2008 | Apture Gives Contextual Popups A Good Name | I’m generally not pleased when a user interface does something I didn’t intend it to do. Such as when I click on a link but instead of taking me to a new page, it pops up an overlay with advertising or related content (see this Yahoo News a... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | WebMission Day 2: Brunching and lunching | So day two of WebMission began with plenty of recovery time following the previous evening’s partying, which took in the tad pricey Clift Hotel bar, and the Slide and Le Colonial clubs. I gather. I of course turned in with a nice cup of coc... |