Content-recommendation app Trapit grows up, enters formidable world of publishing

Trapit launched its new publisher suite today, the startup's first business-to-business product that publishers and brands can use to create personalized, more engaging reading experiences.

Trapit for iPad aims to fix mobile browsing with artificial intelligence

Browsing is flawed — on the Web, but even more so on mobile. That’s the message Trapit co-founder Hank Nothhaft conveyed to me as he demoed his solution to the problem: a Trapit iPad application that uses artificial intelligence to …

Dylan’s Desk: Siri is the grandmother of Marvin the Paranoid Android

EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week, I’m writing a column on business and technology called Dylan’s Desk, while Dean Takahashi is writing a column on video games called The DeanBeat. They are available to newsletter subscribers a whole day before they appear 

News discovery site TrapIt could be Pandora for news stories

TrapIt, an online service that’s designed to help individuals discover new content on the web, launched pretty quietly on Tuesday and is still cruising in a private beta. VentureBeat had a chance to try the site out for a few …