Comparison shopping site NexTag has acquired product recommendation research engine Wize. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Launched in 2006, Wize lets consumers search for reviews on electronics, home goods, video games, health products and more. It searches shopping sites with user reviews, such as Amazon and BestBuy, as well as expert reviews from traditional product review sites.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that it was almost guaranteed that Facebook would eventually hit 1 billion users. But with developed countries largely tapped and the social network’s growth slowing in both raw and percentage terms this spring, the company is eyeing emerging markets as a new source of users.
When you get to around 500 million users, much ...
YouTube is trying to become as brainless and painless to watch as the boob tube.
Reuters - SUN VALLEY (Reuters) News Corp digital chief Jonathan Miller said on Wednesday his company is not in talks to sell its once popular social networking site MySpace and described reports of any discussions as "fabrications."
John Gruber of Daring Fireball has a “well-placed” source who informed him that Microsoft sold a mere 503 KINs before the handset was given its end-of-life papers on June 30th. Speculative rumors of the devices dismal sales figures have been tossed around willy-nilly over the last several week, and five hundred was a popular guess; others quoting anonymous sources pegged sales at ...
Fad or no fad, Chatroulette's 15 minutes of fame isn't up just yet. An art gallery is showing "a tableau of human reactions" gleaned from the viral video chat site; the exhibit is called the Narcissus Series.According to the gallery's curators, "The premise of the Narcissus Series is to recreate the conditions of the myth and capture that moment of ...
Viacom’s MTV Networks has acquired social game developer Social Express as part of its inaugural entry into the hot social gaming market, VentureBeat has learned.
Using Social Express, MTV Networks will develop social games based on original shows from MTV, Nickelodeon, and other Viacom-owned brands, said David Williams, senior vice president and general manager of games in the Nickelodeon Kids ...
Twitter has been picking up steam among the celebrity set for months now. So when a 5.9 earthquake hit southern California this evening, all the rock stars, TV demigods and film legends took to the web to tell the world all about it.Alyssa Milano, Jordin Sparks, Wil Wheaton, Khloe Kardashian and Larry King were among the concerned TwitterTwitter-loving celebs to ...
The failure of Microsoft’s Kin, the smartphone aimed at a young audience, may not have surprised the company’s employees, according to an email sent to Business Insider.
“No one thought it was a great product to launch anyway to begin with,” wrote the employee, whose name is omitted for obvious reasons. Speculating that the company’s launch party may have cost more ...
Twenty four billion. That is how many times users are searching Twitter per month; a truly gargantuan figure. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone noted that twitter.com now handles roughly 800 million search queries per day, a 33% increase from April of this year. To put that number in perspective, Yahoo! handles roughly 9.4 billion search queries per month, while Bing handles ...
Claiming it's been unable to recover the prototype N8 that journalist Eldar Murtazin previewed earlier this year, Nokia has asked Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs to help get the phone back.
AP - YouTube is trying to become as brainless and painless to watch as the boob tube. In the process, the Web's leading video site hopes to learn enough about its viewers to replace their remote control.
San Clemente, Calif. - iPort plans this month to ship in-wall mounting kits for Apple's iPod...
PC World - Not quite happy with the way Windows 7 works, or looking to get more out of the operating system?
Before and after photos show a small village in Ghana receiving electricity after a decade of empty promises.
With Rickshaw Bagworks, Wired designs a survival satchel and fills it with everything from Advil, Imodium and OxyContin to Burn Jel and breathable dressing for a super-basic, spot-on first aid kit.
AFP - YouTube wants users to watch more videos and to make it more like watching television.
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International strategy consultancy PTOLEMUS Consulting Group has published its first European Location Study 2010 - a 230-page reference document that covers all positioning technologies as well as the devices and markets affected by them.
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Navman Wireless has launched an iPhone app that allows customers to manage their entire vehicle fleet.