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| Apr 26, 2013 | Wavii shutting down service after Google acquisition | Reports of Wavii’s acquisition by Google surfaced earlier this week, and now that’s been confirmed. But in a more interesting piece of news coming today, Seattle-based Wavii announced that it will be shutting down its news aggregation servi... |
| Apr 26, 2013 | Wavii officially acquired by Google, app shuts down | 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!
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| Apr 26, 2013 | Google Buys Wavii To Improve Natural Language | Recent reports indicated that Google bought Wavii, a mobile startup, which has received some comparisons to Summly, which Yahoo recently acquired and integrated into its iPhone app.
Now, Wavii has confirmed the acquisition. CEO Adrian Aoun ... |
| Apr 26, 2013 | Wavii confirms that it's been acquired by Google | Wavii was a new summarization app that offered personalized feeds for its users
There has been a rumor going around for the last few days that Google had picked up personalized news service Wavii. But, since neither source would saying anyt... |
| Apr 26, 2013 | Wavii Confirms Google Buy, Shuts Down Its Service To Make Natural Language Products For The Search Giant | Wavii, the natural language technology startup, has updated its home page, and its previously-monochromatic logo, to officially confirm that it has been acquired by Google — a deal that we noted earlier this week was “north of $30 million.”... |
| Apr 23, 2013 | Google Buys Wavii For North Of $30 Million | Google has finally closed the deal on Wavii, a natural language processing startup, for a price that is more than $30 million, we’re hearing from a legitimate source.
Both Apple and Google were competing for the Seattle-based startup, and G... |
| Apr 23, 2013 | Report: Google buys news aggregator Wavii for more than $30M | It looks like Wavii, the Seattle-based startup that helps you find personalized feeds of the news, has been bought by Google.
TechCrunch is reporting that Google purchased Wavii for more than $30 million. We’ve reached out to Wavii for conf... |
| Apr 23, 2013 | Google is getting very close to acquiring Wavii | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google is going to likely acquire Wavii, a summary startup that helps you “consume content,” soon. But sources very close to the deal t... |
| Apr 8, 2013 | Slim For iPhone Helps You Keep Up With Facebook, LinkedIn And More, Without Obsessively Checking For Updates | In our state of continued information overload, and because of the growing number of services which we have to check in order to keep up with the information that matters to us, things get missed by even the most active social media users. ... |
| Nov 29, 2012 | Wavii Builds a Facebook-Style Feed for All the World’s News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After talking with the guys behind Wavii, a Seattle startup that has built a Facebook-style feed for all the world’s events, I had two somewhat conflicting impressions: Wavii ... |
| Nov 29, 2012 | With An Improved Design, Navigation & Social Features, Wavii’s Rebuilt iPhone App Is Like A Facebook News Feed For Actual News | Seattle-based Wavii, the news aggregation startup that finally launched into public beta this April after years of stealth mode, is today unveiling an entirely new product with today’s debut of Wavii 2.0 for iPhone. The app has been complet... |
| Oct 28, 2012 | Why The Future Of Search May Look More Like Yahoo Than Google | When Nirvana was cool
Rewind to the late 90s. Almost everything you needed – email, news, sports, stocks, maps and more – was conveniently on one site: Yahoo!. Yahoo! was the “portal” to the Internet that strived to deliver everything you c... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | Still Missing Google Reader’s Lost Social Features? Feedspot Can Help | Remember when Google ruined its RSS news reader Google Reader by removing its built-in social features? Back in October, Google announced that it was removing Reader’s friending and following functions as well as its shared link blogs. For ... |
| Aug 6, 2012 | How Wavii Turned #NBCFail into a Real-Time Feed for Olympics Fans | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When the Summer Olympics got under way, the folks at Seattle startup Wavii figured they had a great test case for exploring some new ways of visualizing content.
With thousand... |
| May 9, 2012 | Amazon Takes Over: How a Flood of People Could Remake Seattle | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In Seattle, the future is pretty easy to find. Just head to Amazon.com’s neighborhood.
Just a few years ago, this corner of the city was dominated by warehouses and cheap rent... |
| Apr 29, 2012 | How Tablets Are Transforming Business Intelligence | Editor’s note: Mitch Lazar is CEO of Taptu. He Founded CNN and Cartoon Network Mobile. He was a former journalist at CNN and one of the co-founders of CNN.com. Prior to joining Taptu, Mitch headed Yahoo! Mobile Europe.
Staying on top of you... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Wavii Makes Search More Human (Like Google+ Should) | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
He surely didn’t know it at the time. But Adrian Aoun’s godson, who lives in London and just turned 5, has been supplying the Seattle entrepreneur with inspiration for years. ... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Wavii wants to turn the whole world into a Facebook news feed | 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!
News aggregator Wavii wants to build you a Facebo... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Wavii Launches In Public Beta, Aiming To Be Your Big Data News Aggregator Of Choice | After years, yes years, in various states of stealth mode, Seattle-based personalized news aggregation startup Wavii is finally launching to wide scale public consumption. Backed with a list of angel investors that reads like a who’s who of... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | Wavii moves toward reality with goal of helping people manage information overload | Wavii, the stealthy Seattle startup led by Adrian Aoun, is getting closer to unveiling a new service that’s designed to help people find the news that matters the most to them.
“Today, most people get their news by searching Google or brows... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | News Aggregator Wavii Wants To “Make Facebook Out Of Google,” Bring Relevant Content To You | The problem of how to find relevant content on the web has yet to be solved on a mass scale. You’ve got cyborg news aggregators like Techmeme and Google news and social aggregators like Reddit and Digg competing with Twitter and the Faceboo... |
| Dec 1, 2011 | Super stealthy Wavii says a bit more: Making Facebook out of Google | A few weeks ago, I wondered what was going on at Wavii, a high-profile Seattle startup that had been operating in stealth mode for 16 months. At the time of my inquiry last month, CEO Adrian Aoun didn’t want to say much.
But now the company... |
| Nov 30, 2011 | So That’s What Wavii is Up To: “Making Facebook out of Google” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle startup Wavii, previously seen taking the concept of “stealth mode” to extreme lengths, is letting slip more details about the product it’s been building for these man... |
| Nov 11, 2011 | Meet Wavii: The world’s longest-running stealth startup? | Over the course of the past few weeks, a couple people in the Seattle startup community have independently asked me the same question: Whatever happened to Wavii?
I first discovered the Adrian Aoun-led company back in July of 2010 — writing... |
| Jan 17, 2011 | Waviimania Continues As Investors Flock To Parade | This is how to milk a stealth startup for all it’s worth.
We first covered Seattle startup Wavii back in July. The company has raised somewhere around $2 million in angel funding from thirty or so angel investors – only a few of which are p... |
| Jul 21, 2010 | Time To Meet Wavii, The Super Stealth, Super Awesome Startup Based In…Seattle? | Get ready to start hearing a lot about a startup in Seattle called Wavii. There’s been some buzz building about them, mostly leaks from spurned venture capitalists who’ve desperately wanted to invest. And perhaps a spurned corporate dev exe... |