eBay acquired recommendation technology Hunch in November.
But Pinterest yearns to know what you want next, which is "exactly" why it acquired recommendation engine startup Kosei, Pinterest's head of engineering Michael Lopp tells me.
In the following, we adopt the model of a secondary network assisted by location-based social networking services which can help SUs to share their own experiences regarding spectrum availability in a specific position and acquire online recommendations about expected PUs appearances.
Smith also told Bloomberg the company intends to keep up its acquisition pace (it recently coughed up $10 million for the purchase of Hot Potato and moved to acquire travel recommendation service Nextstop and, earlier, Octazen, ShareGrove and Divvyshot – this year alone).
Ebay acquires a recommendation start-up.
In May 2007 eBay acquired website recommendation engine StumbleUpon for $75 million.
Comparison shopping site NexTag has acquired product recommendation research engine Wize.
Desire2Learn acquired course recommendation engine, Degree Compass in March and is already putting its tech to use to continue expanding its learning platform.
That has included acquiring news recommendation services Newsle and Pulse; growing its publishing platform — which now sees 50,000 pieces of content each week — and also adding whole new business areas, like e-learning site Lynda.com, acquired last week for $1.5 billion.
On Tuesday, it emerged that Apple has made a key move into second-screen TV: the company acquired video recommendation site, Matcha.tv, a service which let users aggregate programming guides for different video services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon.
