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| Oct 13, 2020 | Selling stock like clockwork, Moderna’s top doctor gets $1 million richer every week | Every Tuesday, Moderna’s top doctor gets about $1 million richer.
As the world awaits results from Moderna’s pivotal Covid-19 vaccine study, Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks has been selling his existing stock like clockwork every week throug... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Like Nature Programs? Smithsonian Networks Launches Its Own $4-Per-Month Streaming Service | Does the world need yet another subscription-based video streaming service? The Smithsonian seems to think so, having now rolled out its own over-the-top service aimed at cord cutters called Smithsonian Earth. Initially available on the web... |
| Nov 9, 2015 | Hullabalu Raises $2.5 Million For Its Interactive Storytelling App For Kids | The iPad helped introduce the concept of interactive books, where stories are accompanied by games and other tappable animations to complement their tales. But a company called Hullabalu offers a twist. Instead of digital stories with inter... |
| May 16, 2014 | An obesity treatment that looks like a pill but acts like a device takes in $12M from investors | Those particles absorb and hold water in an elaborate 3D network so that they swell and create a larger volume in the stomach when food is eaten. Gelesis thinks this will make people feel more full with less food.
The particles shrink with ... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | Google dresses up its Product Search page | Google launched a new version of its Product Search page today that’s far more visually driven than any of its other search pages.
With the new Product Search site, it seems like Google has finally realized that retail store windows display... |
| Nov 19, 2010 | Amazon.com Adds New Visual Search Capability To Its Online Shoe Stores | Amazon.com this morning announced fresh visual search capability in its men’s and women’s shoe stores. Basically, the feature allows Amazon customers to search and browse for shoes based on how they look (example).
The styles are presented ... |
| Aug 23, 2010 | Google Likes Like.com | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Like.com, a four-year-old startup in San Mateo, CA, that created a “visual shopping” site underpinned by sophisticated computer vision and machine learning algorithms, has bee... |
| Aug 20, 2010 | It's Official: Google Acquires Like.com | It’s official. Google has acquired Like.com. In a post on Like.com’s homepage, the company’s CEO and Founder Munjal Shah writes that the visual search engine has been bought by Google. We originally reported the acquisition last weekend. Wh... |
| Aug 15, 2010 | Google to buy visual search firm Like.com for more than $100M? | Google is in the final stages of acquiring visual search and e-commerce firm Like.com for more than $100 million, according to a report in Techcrunch.
Citing multiple sources, Techcrunch said the acquisition looks like it will happen, thoug... |
| Aug 15, 2010 | Google to buy visual search firm Like.com for more than $100M? | 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!
Google is in the final stages of acquiring visual... |
| Jul 25, 2010 | Fashion is the new black online | Jalak Jobanputra is senior vice president of the New York City Investment Fund.
Historically the fashion industry has been slow to adopt technology, so most venture investors have stayed away from investments in the sector. But that has beg... |
| Jun 17, 2010 | Like.com And Glamour's What To Wear Is The Quora For Fashion Advice | Digital shopping and fashion empire Like.com wants to solve a problem for anyone who has ever stood in front of their closet and wondered what they should wear. The startup that has brought us visual shopping engine Like.com, shopping perso... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | Like.com Brings A Live, Glamour Magazine Trained Stylist To The iPhone | Digital shopping and fashion empire Like.com is hoping to solve a problem for anyone who has ever stood in front of their closet and wondered what they should wear. The startup that has brought us visual shopping engine Like.com, shopping p... |
| Mar 14, 2010 | Go Try It On Will Be Your Wardrobe Consultant And Personal Stylist In One | I’m a big fan of sites that aim to socialize fashion and shopping decisions. Weardrobe, Polyvore and others are taking fashion and style to a new level with the ability to socialize looks and designers. A new fashion-focused site, Go Try It... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | Vogue's New iPhone App Will Style Your Wardrobe And Please Advertisers | Conde Nast has been working to fuse its fashion content with technology and social media. Lucky Magazine incorporated e-commerce into its online site and also partnered with Four Square. Today, Vogue Magazine is launching an innovative iPho... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | Like.com Expands Digital Fashion Empire With Virtual Styling Tool Couturious | Like.com has been steadily expanding its mini digital fashion empire. There is Like.com itself, a visual shopping engine; Covet.com; a recently launched visual shopping personalization application; and Weardrobe, which is a social platform ... |
| Dec 30, 2009 | 10 lessons for entrepreneurs going into 2010 | Accept bumbling around and failure, learn to hit reset, dare to dream, stay lean
At VatorNews, we have been building up a great library of "Lessons learned and advice" for entrepreneurs from top VCs to successful entrepreneurs sin... |
| Nov 18, 2009 | Like.com Acquires Street Style Fashion Community Weardrobe | I’m a big fan of street style focused-fashion, microblogging sites, like Weardrobe, where anyone can post pictures of their coordinated outfits for others to admire and emulate. Like.com, a visual shopping search engine, has acquired Weardr... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Google offers search tools for the Amazon.coms of the world | 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!
Google is taking the next step in offering its se... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Google offers search tools for the Amazon.coms of the world | Google is taking the next step in offering its search technology to businesses with a new product called Google Commerce Search. It’s basically Google search for web retailers.
In the same way that Google is taking on traditional enterprise... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | The secret behind Like.com's revenue engine | CEO Munjal Shah reveals the real strategy behind making money off of visual search
Like.com CEO and founder Munjal Shah was one of the presenters at The Funded and Vator’s Juice Pitcher event last week. Munjal’s presentation, which was a fr... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Like.com team shuts down visual search site Riya | Riya, the visual search engine whose team later built shopping site Like.com, is shutting down later this month.
The closure only finalizes a shift that started happening years ago — although the San Mateo, Calif. company is still called Ri... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | A Sad Day. Goodbye, Riya | Facial recognition service Riya will shut down on August 21, 2009, says founder Munjal Shah in an email to users this morning. We are adding it to the TechCrunch DeadPool.
This was one of the original services that defined the early Web 2.0... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Dark Day for Digital Photo Services: PicMe, BubbleShare, Riya Fade to Black | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In an online photo mini-apocalypse, three Web 2.0-era photo sharing and management services—BubbleShare, Riya, and PicMe—announced late this week that they’re shutting down op... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Like.com team shuts down visual search site Riya | 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!
Riya, the visual search engine whose team later b... |
| Jun 3, 2009 | Covet.com Will Be Your Stylist And Personal Shopper In One | Shopping for fashion on the web can be an overwhelming experience. Not only can you find an unlimited amount of clothing on the e-commerce sites of retailers like Nordstroms and Saks.com, but there are also plethora of web-based sites that ... |
| Apr 21, 2009 | Go To Google Similar Images, Hit "Similar," Find Live Search | Yesterday, Google unveiled its new Google Similar Images search feature under Google Labs. The product is nice, and works very well. But, Microsoft was doing the same thing with Live Search — over 4 months ago.
A lot of commenters pointed i... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | Google Similar Images First Look | A new 20% time Google project has just launched called Google Similar Images. It’s pretty self-explanatory — when you search for an image and find one close to what you’re looking for, Google can now find ones that it believes to be the sam... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | Google Labs ups the ante in image search, provides Google-eyed view of history | Google just announced two cool new applications as part of its experimental Labs area today — an improved Image Search that helps you find similar images, and a new timeline for exploring stories in Google News.
Google hasn’t released much ... |
| Apr 8, 2009 | Polar Rose Combines Facebook Connect With Facial Recognition Technology To Tag Photos On Flickr | Polar Rose, a photo tagging startup we wrote about during its private launch, has released a new version of its application that lets you name and tag people in your photos on your Flickr account using your Facebook contacts. Polar Rose wil... |
| Mar 24, 2009 | Pixazza crowdsources shopping info, turning pics into ads | Most web users are used to tagging photos on sites like Flickr and Facebook. But now Pixazza Inc., a new venture backed ad company, has released a tool that turns items in web images into clickable and purchasable content. Put simply, it’s ... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | The deep Web and the future of finding things | The discovery landscape
Wize Deep Web
A recent article in the New York Times about the “Deep Web” got us thinking about the future of finding things. At Wize, we hold a few things dear when it comes to search and discovery. They are differe... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | Visual search engine Superfish nets $5.3M | Superfish, a stealthy startup that will eventually let users search by sight, reeled in $5.3 million in second-round financing. The Palo Alto, Calif. company has been in research mode for a couple of years and plans to launch the service in... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | What’s Hot on the Web Right Now? OneRiot Aims to Tell You | What am I missing? And more importantly, what am I missing that other people are seeing? It’s those kinds of questions that drive millions of people to the Web – and to social news sites – on a daily basis. Because of that, any number of co... |
| Oct 26, 2008 | Next-gen photo and content organizers | Guy Kawasaki is our guest host, evaluating TechStar's Occipital, Union Square Venture's Zemanta This Vator Box is brought to you by Liquid Scenarios and Nearsoft. At some point, moving images - like the ones you see in the newspapers in Har... |
| Oct 25, 2008 | Funding roundup - week ending 10/24/08 | Movidia, Vidyo, and Shopit are among companies that raised funds
Here's another look at some of the funding announcements across the social network, community, video, digital media and advertising sectors.
Like raised $32.7 million from Men... |
| Oct 22, 2008 | Visual search site Like.com closes $32M round | Visual search shopping site Like.com just announced that it has raised a $32 million third round of funding. We reported on the deal back in July, but the money hadn’t been wired over yet and we could only say the amount was in the “double ... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | Like.com's Perfect Timing: $32 Million Series C Round | Silicon Valley based Like.com managed to raise a monster round of financing at just the right time: $32 million in Series C round of funding that closed in August, led by Menlo Ventures. Crosslink Capital also joined the round, as well as a... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Visual search engine Like.com blasts ahead — raises double digit millions | Like.com, a search engine that analyzes images for useful shopping information, has raised double digit millions in venture capital from Silicon Valley venture firm Menlo Ventures.
It’s also on a roll, in terms of both traffic and revenue.
... |
| Jun 1, 2008 | Like.com's Creepy, But Effective, Facebook Ads | Is a picture worth a thousand clicks? You’ve heard of contextual ads triggered by keywords on a Web page. Now, get ready for contextual ads triggered by images on the page. Visual-shopping search engine Like.com is running ads on Facebook t... |
| May 12, 2008 | New Visual Search Engine Picitup Needs to Pick Up Its Game | Visual search and image recognition is one of the holy grails of consumer Internet technologies. Picitup is jumping into the deep end of this space by announcing the launch of its public beta.
Unlike Like.com (formerly Riya) which focuses o... |
| May 7, 2008 | Want to Dress Just Like Celebrities? You'll Like Coolspotters | Coolspotters, a new site from Connecticut based startup Fanzter, will launch later today. It’s an eye-candy celebrity-focused site that shows users the products celebrities are wearing in various photos. Users can then talk about and, of co... |
| Mar 29, 2008 | Image Recognition Problem Finally Solved: Let's Pay People To Tag Photos | Most people have thousands of digital photos sitting on their hard drive. And the vast majority of those photos aren’t tagged or searchable. Want to find the 300 pictures of your youngest son amongst 10,000 others? It’s not going to happen.... |
| Mar 25, 2008 | Become.com raises $17.5M to take on web shopping leaders | Become.com, a startup that wants to be the Google of comparison shopping, has raised $17.5 million in a third round of funding. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company seems to be fulfilling the promise we wrote about back in 2005.
At the t... |
| Mar 13, 2008 | The Best Tools for Visualization | Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communi... |
| Feb 18, 2008 | Is Like.com really “killing” social search? Not yet | Yesterday, I wrote a piece about Like.com, a visual search engine company based in Silicon Valley that was reporting great progress: The young site has had rocketing visitor traffic over the past four months, and it’s headed toward profitab... |
| Feb 17, 2008 | Journabloggers Should Do Their Work Too | When I started blogging four and a half years ago, there was a clear delineation between bloggers and journalists. But that’s all changed and now we have this new category, the journablogger.
The journablogger has his or her own blog or wor... |
| Feb 17, 2008 | Like.com shows visual search works after all | I’ve updated this story, given that I was attacked for not digging enough. See update here.
Just six months ago, things weren’t looking great for Like, a Silicon Valley company that offers visual search for shopping.
Its traffic wasn’t goin... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Like, the online visual search company for shopping, raises $3.3M | Like, the San Mateo company lets you search for items to buy based on visual characteristics you’re looking for, has raised $3.3m more in financing.
Like’s chief executive Munjal Shah has proven nimble. He started two years ago with photo s... |
| Sep 5, 2007 | Roundup: Facebook search; Business 2.0 folds; Silverlight launches; and more | Here’s the latest action:
Facebook to launch people search in one month — Facebook will let search engines find and display very basic information from your Facebook profile, including only your name and the option to message you or friend ... |
| Sep 4, 2007 | RockYou Integrates Like.com Image Search Into Slideshows | Last November, Munjal Shah made a fairly tough decision and did an about face on his startup, Riya. Instead of continuing to focus on Riya’s existing product – facial recognition and tagging of photos – the company took its core technology ... |
| Apr 9, 2007 | TheFind.com: Shopping Search Engine Scores A+ In Vertical Search | Recently I spoke with Siva Kumar, founder and CEO of TheFind.com – a next generation online shopping engine focused on the Lifestyle segment. According to Siva, TheFind.com is a discovery shopping search engine optimized for lifestyle produ... |
| Mar 29, 2007 | The courtesan sisters of comparison search, and Thefind | Updated
If you’re searching to buy a product online, there’s no single “branded” engine that stands out — and for a reason. All of the major shopping engines sites have sold out to advertisers.
This may represent a grand opportunity: If a G... |
| Jan 28, 2007 | The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines | Written by Charles S. Knight,
SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the
analysis.
Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet
and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.”... |
| Jan 5, 2007 | Amazon.com launches independent Endless.com | In a quirky move, Amazon.com has launched their own independent shoe and handbag niche website, Endless.com. Shoes and handbags will still be available on Amazon.
Endless really hides the fact that Amazon owns them — you have to dig into th... |
| Dec 11, 2006 | Xcavator joins race in visual search | Visual search technology is still in its infancy, but a number of new start-ups are pushing the possibilities forward — the latest being Xcavator.
Riya’s Like launched recently (see our coverage), giving users a way of highlighting a shoe, ... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Like.com Visual Search Engine Debuts | Search company Riya, which has been developing facial recognition technology for locating individuals in photographs, has spun off its image search technology onto a site called Like.com. The service enables users to search for images by ap... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Riya's Like.com Is First True Visual Image Search | Silicon Valley startup Riya, currently a photo search company focusing on facial recognition, is making a significant strategic and product shift this morning. Riya will continue as is, but the company is leveraging the core technology to l... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Like.com: Be Like Anyone | This is an interesting way to shop. Riya has just launched Like.com, an image search system that lets you tag images and then find other things online that look like those images. For example, you apparently can grab a still of Paris Hilton... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Like’s visual search very good for shopping | Like has finally launched its visual search engine company, and it’s going to appeal to the shopping set, especially women.
Users select products from images, and then Like’s search engine will find comparable items to buy. Like is owned by... |
| Nov 8, 2006 | Image-matching search for all your fashion needs | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Mar 29, 2005 | Like we said, deals are flying. SMART gets $125M | SMART Modular Technologies, a Silicon Valley (Fremont) provider of memory products, in a deal we haven’t quite fully comprehended, has just announced $125 million in “new financing,” apparently from the sale of debt, and an additional $35 m... |