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| 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... |
| Jan 9, 2007 | Judy's Book: Avoiding the DeadPool | Judy’s Book and Insider Pages are two companies that launched at roughly the same time, raise roughly the same amount of venture capital, and had very similar products. They also face fairly intense competition from a number of similar serv... |
| 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... |
| Jun 15, 2006 | Riya 2.0 On the Way; Major Strategy Shift | Photo search and facial recognition site Riya (a TechCrunch sponsor) had a million photos uploaded in the first two days after launch and seven million photos uploaded in the first seven weeks. For details on the core service, see this post... |
| May 30, 2006 | Anatomy of a Launch: The Riya Play-by-Play | Photo search and facial recognition site Riya is now about two months old (see here for our past Riya posts). Founder and CEO Munjal Shah is in the process of memorializing the highs and lows of the launch process, and this is must-read stu... |
| Jan 9, 2006 | Riya Nails Second Round Financing | Facial Recognition company Riya has marked the new year with a whopping $15 million second round venture raise from existing investor Bay Partners. This is exceptional news for Riya and a great recovery after the acquisition rumor fiasco la... |
| Jan 9, 2006 | Riya, the facial recognition start-up, raises $15 million | Riya, the Redwood City start-up that is developing technology to recognize the people in your photos in order to let you tag and sort them more easily, has raised $15 million from Bay Partners, according to the company’s CEO, Munjal Shah. T... |
| Dec 18, 2005 | Riya Goes it Alone | Riya, the celebrated facial recognition company that has allowed in a few lucky alpha testers over the last few months, was the subject of significant acquisition rumors a few weeks ago. “Sources” put the price in the $30 million range, alt... |
| Nov 21, 2005 | Riya sold to Google for $40M? | Lots of buzz out there that Google has aquired Riya, the start-up that uses facial recognition technology to allow you to tag your pictures more efficiently. The rumor is $40 million, but this is still in the rumor category, because Riya ch... |
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