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eBay Acquires StumbleUpon

eBay today announced it has acquired StumbleUpon, an early-stage company that helps people discover and share content online, for an aggregate transaction value of approximately $75 million. This acquisition will provide eBay with in-depth exposure to a fast-growing community-based service with approximately 2.3 million users. StumbleUpon gives people a new way to discover relevant and entertaining content based on personal preferences and community recommendations.

Driven by word-of-mouth, the StumbleUpon community has grown 150 percent year over year and delivers approximately five million new recommendations a day to its large, highly engaged user base. StumbleUpon allows people to discover Web sites, people, videos, product information, communities and other online content based on personal interests. By allowing its community to rate the content, StumbleUpon gets smarter as it is used and provides an increasing level of relevance over time.

eBay senior director - Michael Buhr will serve as general manager of StumbleUpon effective immediately. StumbleUpon’s current founders and management team will remain in their respective positions and will work with Buhr to enhance the user experience, evolve its unique product and grow the community.

Add comment May 31st, 2007

ChaCha and blinkx Partner for New Video Search

blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, today announced a distribution agreement with ChaCha, the breakthrough search engine that uses human guides to enhance its search results. Under the terms of the agreement, ChaCha will provide its users with video search results from blinkx’s extensive index of the rich media Web. Results can either be culled instantly or by using the support of a human ChaCha “guide” who assists users in real-time at http://www.chacha.com.

ChaCha offers the next generation in search with its unique use of human intelligence. Using a single query box, users simply input their query, in any form, and results are instantly displayed. These results are the combination of the best search technology and “hand-picked” sites from the ChaCha community of 30,000 skilled search experts.

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 150 partners and 7,000,000 hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.

Add comment May 15th, 2007

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