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| Mar 19, 2015 | Facebook Acquires TheFind | Facebook (FB) acquired TheFind, a Mountain View, CA-based shopping search engine.
The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.
Founded in 2006 and led by Siva Kumar, CEO, and Shashikant Khandelwal, CTO, TheFind developed an online and m... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | Facebook To Become Better For Selling Products | Facebook is making quite a few moves, which point to the social network becoming a better place for people, businesses, and websites to sell products. The latest piece of news involves an acquisition, which should lead to better personaliza... |
| Mar 13, 2015 | Facebook acquires and shutters shopping search engine TheFind | 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!
Facebook has acquired shopping search engine comp... |
| Mar 13, 2015 | Facebook Buys And Shuts Down Shopping Site TheFind To Boost Commerce In Ads | Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads. TheFind had raised $26 million from Lightspeed and Redpoint since getting off the ground around 2005, but will now be shu... |
| Mar 13, 2015 | Facebook acquires and shutters shopping search engine TheFind | Facebook has acquired shopping search engine company TheFind, which announced the news on its website today.
Some people from TheFind have joined Facebook; TheFind’s search engine is going offline in the coming weeks.
“For the last nine yea... |
| Jun 2, 2014 | Who will emerge as the killer app of shopping? | This sponsored post has been produced by Ramneek Bhasin, GM Mobile & VP Product, TheFind, Inc.
Mobile shopping apps are proliferating, but not all will survive. Successful apps provide entertainment or utility. Who will come out on top?... |
| Apr 21, 2014 | Shopping: Is there an app for that? | This sponsored post is produced by Ramneek Bhasin, VP & GM, Product and Mobile, TheFind.
Our fascination with the smartphone is in full swing. We now live in a world where more phones are activated daily than there are babies born, and ... |
| Mar 6, 2014 | Shopping Search Engine TheFind Arrives On Android | Shopping search and comparison engine TheFind, which launched its iPhone application last fall and has now grown its iOS footprint to over 1 million users, today launched its service on Android. Like its iOS counterpart, the new app lets yo... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | Shopping search engine TheFind surpasses 1B shopping searches (exclusive) | Shopping search engine TheFind is furiously crawling the Internet so you can find those vintage Nike shoes you’ve been eyeing, or a pantsuit appropriate for a wedding.
The company revealed impressive traction today.
TheFind crossed the “1 b... |
| Aug 23, 2013 | Slice, The Shopping Companion Powered By Email Inbox Data, Raises $23M From Rakuten & Others | Slice, the technology startup whose mission is to organize all commerce data by tapping into the information buried in your inbox, has closed on $23 million in Series B funding led by e-commerce giant Rakuten, often referred to as the Amazo... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | TheFind wants to become your daily shopping habit with new iPad app (exclusive) | Shopping for clothes online can easily turn into a downward spiral of frustration. “Buying engine” TheFind has unveiled its new iPad app that seeks to turn e-commerce into pleasant shopping experience.
TheFind was founded in 2005 back in th... |
| Jun 19, 2013 | TheFind wants to become your daily shopping habit with new iPad app (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Shopping for clothes online can easily turn into a downward spiral of frustration. “Buying engine” TheFind has unveiled its new iPad ap... |
| May 7, 2013 | TheFind Draws From Facebook Likes And Past Shopping History To Personalize Product Search | Shopping search engine TheFind is debuting a more personalized search feature today. Personalized search sifts through the millions of online products available to give you personal results based on a combination of both your Facebook “Like... |
| Aug 13, 2012 | Ten days in the life of one camera’s price — and how all major shopping portals got it wrong | Tried shopping at one of the major online comparison shopping portals lately?
If so, you’ll probably have gotten wrong or misleading information.
Patrick Carter, founder of a startup called Digital Folio, recently tracked the pricing trends... |
| Aug 13, 2012 | Ten days in the life of one camera’s price — and how all major shopping portals got it wrong | 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!
Tried shopping at one of the major online compari... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | The Future Of Shopping Looks Blurry: Microsoft And TheFind Launch Glimpse Catalogs HTML5 Shopping App | Nothing says modern web tech technology like making print shopping catalogs available online – or at least that’s what Microsoft and shopping search engine TheFind must have been thinking. The two companies unveiled a new project called Gli... |
| Sep 15, 2011 | Advertising Network Longboard Media Takes In $6 Million | Ad network Longboard Media is announcing $6 million in Series A funding today, from Level Equity. Managing the ad inventory for over 30 online properties including thefind.com, shop.com, overstock.com, buzzillions.com and become.com, Longbo... |
| Dec 27, 2010 | Search Etsy Listings By Color With Glancely | Let’s say you want to find that perfect quirky little black dress for New Year’s Eve? Like a mashup of Etsy, Flickr color search and Google Instant, Glancely lets you search Etsy visually, sorting instant results by color and by price so yo... |
| Nov 5, 2010 | Bootstrapped Longboard Media Is Growing Like Crazy | Longboard Media is celebrating its two year anniversary and has revealed some amazing growth numbers, crystalizing its position as the largest ad network in the ecommerce space.
Co-founded in November 2008 by former eBay and Shopping.com em... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Comparison Shopping Site TheFind Gets Into Social Commerce With Facebook Integration | Comparison shopping site TheFind, which recently passed Yahoo to become the second most popular shopping site behind Google (according to comScore), is pushing its social commerce strategy today with an in-depth Facebook integration.
TheFin... |
| Nov 19, 2009 | TheFind Launches Comparison Shopping Feature | In time for the holiday shopping season, TheFind, a technology-heavy shopping search engine, has launched a nifty comparison shopping feature that’s worth a spin.
When you do a search for a product on the find, you can now choose to see the... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | TheFind launches “buying engine,” product search from 500,000 stores | TheFind, a Mountain View, Calif-based startup that applies machine learning and semantic search to shopping, says comparison buying sites only skim the surface of all the millions of products out there on the web.
So it’s launching a “buyin... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | TheFind launches “buying engine,” product search from 500,000 stores | 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!
TheFind, a Mountain View, Calif-based startup tha... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | DEMO: Cazoodle helps you find shopping deals and info across the web | Cazoodle Shopping Search helps shoppers find the product information that they need. The company says it uses semantic search technology to connect shoppers with offers from every merchant, allowing you to integrate both deals and knowledge... |
| Sep 1, 2009 | TheFind Acquires iStorez.com To Help Consumers Find Deals While Shopping | TheFind, a technology-heavy shopping search engine, has acquired the deal-driven shopping site iStorez.com. iStorez aggregates the latest coupons, sales and deals from retailers across a variety of categories. Terms of the acquisition are n... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | Image Recognition Startup SnapTell Acquired by Amazon Subsidiary A9.com | SnapTell, a startup that primarily focuses on image-recognition based mobile marketing, has been acquired by A9.com, Amazon’s search engine technology arm. SnapTell did not disclose the terms of the acquisition.
SnapTell’s visual product se... |
| 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... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | SnapTell: One Of The Coolest iPhone Apps Gets Even Better | SnapTell, the awesome iPhone app that lets you take a photo of nearly any CD, DVD, book, or video game to get instant product reviews, has just released an upgrade that introduces a number of useful new features.
Most significant is the add... |
| Nov 28, 2008 | New iStorez site gives users the scoop on Black Friday | iStorez, the web site that aggregates specials, newsletters and coupons from online stores to help its users hunt for deals, recently unveiled its new swanky look — and could prove a prime resource for Black Friday (and subsequent holiday) ... |
| Jul 24, 2008 | TheFind Launches Its iPhone App In Private Beta | TheFind, a technology-heavy shopping search engine, is introducing an iPhone application for the site that it says should launch on August 4. The application allows users to search for stores in a region that are selling a particular produc... |
| Jul 15, 2008 | Shopping site Become.com raises another $8 million | Updated
Become.com, an comparison shopping and research site, is raising $8 million in a fourth round of funding, VentureBeat has learned. The Mountain View, Calif. company confirmed the funding, but won’t provide any additional details unt... |
| 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... |
| Oct 22, 2007 | Bountii Launches, Aims At Better Price Comparison Shopping | The internet is supposed to be a place of intense price competition, but you can’t always find the best deals on any one site. To solve the problem, online price comparison search engines were born. We’ve covered a few newer ones before, su... |
| Aug 29, 2007 | Startup TheFind buys startup Glimpse | TheFind, a comparison shopping search engine, has bought a smaller startup called Glimpse, a shopping site targeting women, for an undisclosed amount.
Mountain View-based TheFind, which launched last fall, is trying to deliver better shoppi... |
| Jul 11, 2007 | $15 Million For Shopping Search TheFind | Mountain View based shopping search site TheFind has raised another $15 million in a third round of venture capital, bringing their total capital raised to $26 million. Bain Capital Ventures led the round.
The company previously raised $11 ... |
| Jul 11, 2007 | TheFind, the clean shopping search engine, raises $15M more | TheFind is a comparison shopping search engine that is unusually clean — it doesn’t ask merchants to pay for their products to show up in results. TheFind’s traffic is growing.
This purity is one reason it has just won $15 million in fresh ... |
| Jun 12, 2007 | Roundup: Geomas’ geo-search patent, Google’s privacy, YouTube filters, and more | Here’s the latest (updated) action:
Geomas says it has location-based search patent — The London based company says its patent is being infringed upon by some 20 large internet players, and this probably includes Google and Yahoo. Here’s a ... |
| May 2, 2007 | Review Of Product Research Engine Wize – Needs Integrated User Experience | Following my
analysis of TheFind, a lifestyle shopping service, in this post I will explore Wize – product research engine. Note that I have also
reviewed the business story of Wize on my
personal blog. So now let’s take a look at their act... |
| 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... |
| Apr 2, 2007 | Thefind, the search engine, not as clean as we thought | Thefind is cleaner than most comparison shopping engines, we wrote last week, because it doesn’t ask merchants to pay for their products to show up in Thefind’s results.
However, Thefind is not as clean as we were led to believe.
In convers... |
| 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... |
| Feb 27, 2007 | Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, February 2007 | Written by Charles S. Knight, SEO and
edited by Richard MacManus. The original version of the Top
100 Alternative Search Engines List appeared here on Read/WriteWeb on January 29,
2007. Every month, we’ll be updating the list and selecting ... |
| 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 | Consumer electronics search engine Retrevo raises $3.2M | Updated
Retrevo, the search engine for consumer electronics products, has raised $3.2 million more in venture capital — timing the news to generate buzz ahead the CES consumer electronics conference in Las Vegas next week.
The Sunnyvale com... |
| Nov 11, 2006 | A Commercial Break… | Thank you to all of our readers and sponsors!
We have a quick favor to ask everyone – if you have a second, please fill out this survey by one of our advertisers, Symantec.
This month’s sponsors include:
TheFind – They are a new shopping se... |
| Oct 26, 2006 | Thefind.com, another shopping search engine, aims for comprehensiveness | Updated
Thefind.com is the latest in a long list of search engine companies swinging for the fences.
The Mountain View start-up has just launched its new offering. It aims to be the most comprehensive shopping search engine on the Web. It h... |
| Jul 24, 2006 | TheFind.com Beta Signup Page | Silicon Valley based TheFind has a beta signup page live and will be launching sometime in the next 45 days. The service will be a very technology heavy comparision shopping engine.
TheFind has been running a showcase shopping search engine... |
