A few weeks ago, eBay acquired personalized and curated shopping site Svvply, to "advance more personalized experiences and merchandising options on eBay.com".com
Facebook also acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind last month.
Facebook today announced it has acquired personalized shopping search engine TheFind to help improve its commerce ads.
The company launched a same-day shipping service called eBay Now, acquired personalized shopping site Svpply, and debuted a new logo.
Exclusive-Flush with $45 million new funding in new funding, Kleiner-backed social commerce network Lockerz has acquired personalized video curation platform Vodpod and all related assets from parent company Remixation.
In January, though, Twitter acquired personalized social news startup Summify and it looks like at least some of that company's expertise is now flowing into Twitter's own products.
Google, the world's most popular Internet search site, yesterday acquired the closely held Kaltix Corporation, which is developing technology to help people get personalized results of Web searches.
As well as being an angel investor, including working with Team Europe Ventures on a number of investments, Janz has co-founded several startups, such as comparison shopping engine DealPilot.com (funded by Bertelsmann, acquired by Shopping.com) and personalized startpage Pageflakes (funded by Balderton Capital, acquired by LiveUniverse).
Twitter recently acquired content summarizer Summify, and personalized email service RestEngine in order to launch an email digest service showing the most engaging content from those you follow, but beyond the counts every tweet still looks the same.
Restaurant reservation platform OpenTable today reported quarterly earnings of $52.3 million and used the day to put out some other news: the company has acquired Ness Computing, makers of the personalized restaurant recommendations app Ness.
By acquiring Freshplum, it can now put personalized discounts in those retargeted ads.
