LocBox wants to be the alternative to Groupon, Living Social and the host of flash sales sites, and has raised… Continue reading ⟩

Social-media video advertising company Jun Group has secured $2.5 million in funding from Western Technology Investment (WTI). Jun Group specializes… Continue reading ⟩

Wal-Mart, the mega corporation known for its mega discount stores, is ready to conquer a new mega frontier. It’s a… Continue reading ⟩

OneRiot, a startup that began in the real-time search space and morphed into an advertising network, has just been acquired… Continue reading ⟩

It looks like Wal-Mart is making a serious investment in social shopping. Kosmix, a startup that has developed semantic technology… Continue reading ⟩

A team of former MySpace executives is launching a new company on-stage at the Web 2.0 Summit today in San… Continue reading ⟩

We’ve seen a lot of startups using semantic technology, usually to improve Web search. Peter Sweeney, founder and co-president of… Continue reading ⟩

We’ve reached the exciting part of the Crunchies, the awards celebrating the year’s best achievements in technology — the part… Continue reading ⟩

Kosmix, a search engine that provides comprehensive pages of information in response to queries, has brought in $238,000 from a… Continue reading ⟩

Kosmix, a company that automatically generates informational pages about any topic, has been dipping its toe into news aggregation with… Continue reading ⟩