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MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. But, Quigo succeeded in licensing AdSonar to Overture.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Silicon Valley 313

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

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JANUARY 16, 2012

And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. And I went to Stanford so my network is there.” ” We went the opposite way.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

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JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth.

Silicon Valley 390

Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

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APRIL 12, 2015

When you do semantic analysis on the article shared you would find out that this is an article trying to persuade people that shale oil drilling in the US is important for energy independence. DataSift crawls the links that are shared and categorizes the upstream information providing exponential insight. Why does this matter?

Syndicate 150

Syndicate Syndication Semantic Artificial Inteligence 150

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense. As this was a whopping round we didn’t not lead it so my commentary in this post is 90% as an excited industry observer and only 10% as a proud investor).

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Of course we know that this is already happening as web services are now driving significant portions of the Internet and people are driving toward a future Semantic Web. When machines can talk with others machines you will have a truly powerful Internet. Consider some simple examples. But of course not everybody has.

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Florida API Seattle Semantic 324