New Tech Startup Rap Genius Decoding Your Favorite Lyrics
Music startups are exciting, for the simple fact that they help move the industry forward instead of back like so many like to harp on. One in particular is getting the attention of many music lovers called Rap Genius. Rap Genius is a startup from the Bay Area, Calif. that has created a massive and [...]
Read MoreWeekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008
Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio. This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, [...]
Read MoreThe Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008
Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com
Read MoreWeekly Money Trail 7-4-2008
Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in [...]
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