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| Aug 4, 2016 | Mobile app search company Quixey raises $30M in debt funding | Mobile search company Quixey has raised an additional $30 million in debt funding.
The company touts its ability to help users find content within their apps. More recently, it says it has developed technology that can take you straight fro... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Why we’re stuck with display ads on our phones | 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!
Display ads are the most commonly used ad format ... |
| Nov 4, 2015 | Why we’re stuck with display ads on our phones | Display ads are the most commonly used ad format on your phone, but they are really just another holdover from the desktop PC era.
Using ads that have an interactive look and feel that’s more like the mobile experience would be much better,... |
| Sep 24, 2015 | Quixey unveils dynamic ad cards that pull data from apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile tech company Quixey is today releasing a new dynamic mobile ad format that shows the latest data from apps.
Users don’t need the... |
| Sep 24, 2015 | Quixey unveils dynamic ad cards that pull data from apps | Mobile tech company Quixey is today releasing a new dynamic mobile ad format that shows the latest data from apps.
Users don’t need the apps to see the format, called Deep View Cards. They enable a travel company, for instance, to display t... |
| Mar 9, 2015 | Quixey Raises $60M in Series C1 Funding | Quixey, a Mountain View, California-based search engine for apps, raised $60m in Series C1 funding.
The round was led by Alibaba with participation from SoftBank, Goldman Sachs and GGV.
The company will use the funds to continue to develop ... |
| Mar 9, 2015 | Quixey Grabs $60M |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Quixey has raised $60 million in a Series C1 funding round.
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According to published reports, Qu... |
| Mar 6, 2015 | Quixey announces $60m in new funding | One of Atlantic Bridge’s portfolio companies today announced that they have raised an another $60m in a strategic additional series C1 round, led by Alibaba. Quixey aims to build the next generation of mobile search, and this funding round ... |
| Mar 6, 2015 | Mobile App Search Service Quixey Confirms $60 Million In New Funding | Mobile app search company Quixey, which has been focused on solving the challenges with app discovery, and counts among its customer base names like Ask.com and Sprint, confirmed today it has raised $60 million in a strategic Series C1 fund... |
| Dec 9, 2014 | Why I’m not expecting Hal 9000 to come out of a corporate innovation lab | “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
This famous quote from “2001: A Space Odyssey” helped make the idea of a sentient computer a real thing in the minds of people other than computer scientists and science fiction writers. Of cou... |
| Dec 9, 2014 | Why I’m not expecting Hal 9000 to come out of a corporate innovation lab | 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!
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Th... |
| Nov 15, 2014 | The Kingmaker Strategy: Pioneered By The Chinese Internet Giants, Coming To America? | Jeff Richards Contributor
Jixun Foo Contributor
Editor’s note: Jeff Richards and Jixun Foo are Managing Partners at GGV Capital, a $2.2 billion venture capital fund focused on the U.S. and China. GGV is an investor in Alibaba Group, MediaV,... |
| Oct 28, 2014 | Quixey CEO Tomer Kagan Says They Don’t Need Developers To Make Apps Searchable | On stage for the first panel of the day at Recode’s Code/Mobile conference, Quixey CEO Tomer Kagan pushed back against a point raised by a member of the audience: many app developers haven’t implemented “deep links,” so how are you going to... |
| Oct 7, 2014 | The 3 most useful skills to teach at a hackathon | I spent last weekend mentoring participants in PennApps, a hackathon organized by undergraduate students at UPenn. I enjoyed the experience of mentoring, and had an especially great time pretending to know a lot about hardware.
While workin... |
| Jul 17, 2014 | Relcy Is Building A PageRank-Style Mobile App Search Engine With $9M From Khosla And Sequoia | As our connected world becomes more focused around mobile devices, we are increasingly app-centric, eschewing the wider mobile Internet in favor of individual, native programs that fulfill specific purposes. The trend, however, poses a prob... |
| Jul 3, 2014 | Is Apple to blame for the mobile app deep linking delay? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Now that mobile deep linking — the process of linking into specific sections of apps — has started to become widespread, it’s increasin... |
| Apr 18, 2014 | App Search Engine Quixey Acquires Competing Service Kite.io | Mobile app search engine Quixey, backed by $75 million from Alibaba, Innovation Endeavors, Translink Capital and others, has put some of those dollars to use by acquiring a smaller, competing app search startup, San Francisco-based Kite.io.... |
| Apr 15, 2014 | App Search Startup Xyo Scores Deal With Deutsche Telekom To Power App Discovery, Widgets And Install Ads | Berlin-based app search engine and discovery service Xyo is announcing today a significant deal which will see it powering app searches in Deutsche Telekom’s own app recommendation service, TopApps. The service, the mobile operator’s altern... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | Semantic App Search Engine Quixey Now Digs Into Apps Themselves To Serve You Direct Results | Quixey — the semantic app search engine that has raised some $74.2 million from the likes of Alibaba, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors and others — is raising the bar again in its bid to make apps and the data that they hold more discove... |
| Feb 25, 2014 | The Google for mobile apps: Quixey’s new search tech can discover data within apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google tamed the Wild West of the web in the ’90s — and Quixey aims to do that for mobile apps today.
The company has raised more than ... |
| Oct 23, 2013 | Quixey’s First Consumer-Facing App Offers A New Take On App Search & Discovery For Android Users | A couple of weeks ago, mobile app search engine Quixey raised $50 million in Series C funding from Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and others, and today we’re getting to see the first results of what’s come of that with the debut of Quixey... |
| Oct 23, 2013 | Mobile app search engine Quixey finally has a mobile app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Fresh off of a new $50 million round of funding, the mobile app search engine Quixey is releasing its first app for consumers.
Quixey h... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | Mobile app search engine Quixey scores $50M led by Alibaba | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
What started out as an intriguing startup notion a few years ago — a mobile search engine that can find apps using natural language — h... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | Quixey Secures $50M in Series C |
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Search Engine for Apps, has raised a $50 million Series C round led by Alibaba Group.
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Quixey, ... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | Quixey Raises $50M From Alibaba & Others To Build The Search Engine For The Mobile Era | Mobile app search engine Quixey, which has built a search engine to tackle app discovery by allowing consumers to find apps by searching for the kind of functionality they’re looking for, has closed a $50 million Series C funding round, led... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | Funding Daily: S’mores | 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!
It’s s’mores time! It’s chilly enough to make a f... |
| Oct 3, 2013 | Quixey Raised $50M in Series C Funding | Quixey, a Mountain View, CA-based search engine for apps, raised $50m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Alibaba Group, with participation from GGV Capital and existing investors Innovation Endeavors, TransLink Capital and US Venture... |
| Aug 2, 2013 | Ready For A “Web” Of Apps? Quixey Launches AppURL, A New Way To Enable Deep Linking Across Mobile Applications | Mobile app search engine Quixey is today introducing a new initiative called AppURL which proposes a way to make mobile apps work more like the web. Instead of apps existing as standalone silos, AppURL would allow users to navigate from one... |
| Jun 27, 2013 | Quixey Adds Sponsored Results To Its App Search Engine, Its First Step To Revenue Generation | Quixey, the semantic app search engine backed by $24.2 million from the likes of Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, is taking its first step to making money: from today, it will start to add sponsored results alongside those generated org... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Quixey Partners With Sprint To Power App Search On Sprint’s Android Smartphones & Online Portal | Quixey, the app-search startup that signed a deal to power app-search results on Ask.com this December, is today announcing another high-profile partnership, this time with U.S. mobile carrier Sprint. The operator will use Quixey’s technolo... |
| Dec 5, 2012 | HTML5 is a fat man’s bag of surprises | This guest post is written by Mozilla’s Ron Piovesan.
A recent VentureBeat post entitled “Why HTML5 provided more tricks than treats in 2012” outlined a series of reason why, in the author’s view, HTML5 failed to deliver in 2012.
The articl... |
| Dec 4, 2012 | App Search Company Quixey To Power App Search Results On Ask.com | Quixey, the app search company that closed a $20 million Series B round this summer, is today announcing a major new partnership. Beginning today, the company’s app search results will be integrated into Ask.com. These results will appear i... |
| Sep 27, 2012 | Skyfire Integrates Apps Into Your Mobile Browser With Its Horizon Toolbar | Mobile startup Skyfire is launching a new platform today called Horizon, which is supposed to offer an integrated experience for consumers to access applications like Facebook, Wikipedia, and Yelp while browsing other websites on their phon... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | AppHero Raises $1.8 Million For App Recommendation Service Which Learns Your Interests From Facebook | Following Apple’s acquisition of Chomp, the app search and discovery business continues to heat up. Last month, app search startup Quixey raised a healthy $20 million Series B, and today a much younger startup, AppHero, has raised a $1.8 mi... |
| Jun 9, 2012 | Solve a puzzle, get a job: Quixey gamifies the hiring process | Quixey is an app discovery engine with a problem, and it’s not just the odd name.
Like many startups, Quixey’s key issue is finding talent — great talent. The Palo Alto-based company, founded in 2009, has to compete with the likes of Facebo... |
| Jun 9, 2012 | Solve a puzzle, get a job: Quixey gamifies the hiring process | 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!
Quixey is an app discovery engine with a problem,... |
| Jun 7, 2012 | Fast-Growing App Search Engine Quixey Raises $20 Million Series B | App search company Quixey is today announcing it has closed a $20 million round Series B funding. The round includes previous investors WI Harper Group, U.S. Venture Partners and Innovation Endeavors as well as new investors Atlantic Bridge... |
| Jun 7, 2012 | Quixey Closes $20M Series B |
PALO ALTO, CA, WI Harper Group, a leading Chinese early growth and expansion stage venture capital firm, today announced a follow-on investment into Quixey, the ultimate cross-platform app search engine.
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| Jun 7, 2012 | Quixey wants to help you find apps that matter, gets $20M | Tired of never finding the right app for you? The app search engine Quixey could be just the solution. The company is announcing today that it has raised $20 million in a second round of financing led by Atlantic Bridge Capital.
Imagine you... |
| Jun 7, 2012 | Quixey Raises $20M in Series B Funding | Quixey, a California-based cross-platform app search engine, has raised $20m in Series B funding.
The round, which brings the total amount raised to date to $24.2m, was led by Atlantic Bridge, with participation from SK Planet and TransLink... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Quixey’s ‘Power Search’ Helps Users Weed Through Universe of Apps | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The idea for Quixey, the search engine for apps, came from a simple problem. When co-founder Tomer Kagan was still the CEO of his last company, Your Logo Here, a colleague was... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | The Everything Project: Building A Google For The Mobile Web App Ecosystem | One of the biggest challenges we’re facing as we move into the post-PC era is the challenge of navigating through a disconnected web of applications. Bought and sold as self-contained packages of code, apps are independent little creations,... |
| Feb 25, 2012 | How Two Startups Use Games to Beat the Developer Crunch | “You can’t judge if someone is one of the best programmers in the country in 1 minute, but it turns out you can in 5 minutes.”
Good software developers are hard to find. Startups are all about finding creative solutions to common problems –... |
| Jan 13, 2012 | iCloud’s App Search Engine: A First Step To A Cloud-Enabled Phone | Apple has built a search engine for apps. It’s called iCloud – or more technically, it’s one aspect of the overall iCloud service. Using it, you can search through every app you have installed on your iOS device or have ever purchased in th... |
| Dec 30, 2011 | A Web Of Apps | It is remarkable to think that we’re in the early days of the app era, when there are already close to 600,000 iOS applications and nearly 400,000 on Android (source: Distimo). The growth of these app ecosystems has been rapid, exponential ... |
| Aug 29, 2011 | Quixey Raises $3.8M in Series A Funding | Quixey, a Palo Alto, CA-based search engine for apps, has raised $3.8m in Series A funding.
The round was co-led by U.S. Venture Partners and WI Harper Group, with participation from Webb Investment Network and existing investor Innovation ... |
| Aug 29, 2011 | Quixey grabs $3.8M for app search | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
App search service Quixey has just sealed a deal for $3.8 million to power its growth and develop new partnerships.
Quixey aims to do s... |
| Aug 28, 2011 | Quixey Raises $3.8 Million For A Functional Search Engine For Apps | Quixey, the Palo Alto-based startup that’s building a functional search engine for apps, today announced that it has closed a $3.8 million series A funding round. The investment was led by U.S. Venture Partners and WI Harper Group, with par... |
| Jul 31, 2011 | Get Your Disrupt Startup Battlefield Applications In Now | It’s time to bring TechCrunch Disrupt back home to San Francisco. We are accepting applications for startups to launch at the Disrupt Startup Battlefield until midnight tonight. Applications for the Startup Battlefield can be submitted here... |
| May 20, 2011 | App Search Startup Quixey Launches New Plugins & API | Quixey, an application search startup and makers of an accompanying suite of tools for app developers, is today announcing three more tools to aid in application discovery. These tools provide new ways for publishers and partners to integra... |
| May 5, 2011 | Quixey: New Dashboard for Developers to Aid with App Discovery | Of the many challenges mobile application developers face today, one of the most pressing is that of app discovery. There are over 330,000 apps for iPhone, 75,755 for iPad and 206,000+ for Android, at the last count. It is not enough to sim... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | App search engine Quixey lets developers manage apps across app stores | Quixey, a new startup that’s developing a search engine dedicated to apps, announced today that it will also make life easier for developers by giving them an easy way to manage their apps across multiple stores.
Such a feature would be a b... |
| Apr 7, 2011 | Quixey Raises $400K From Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors For App Search | It’s almost funny: between iOS, Android, and the Mac App Store, we’ve entered the age of the App, where standalone programs often specialize in doing a handful of things very well. There’s an app for looking up baseball schedules, an app fo... |