Collarity raising $7.8M to help sites learn about their users
Collarity, a company that helps monetize websites by monitoring user activity, is raising a second funding round of up to $7.8 million, VentureBeat has learned.
We wrote about the company back in 2006, when its emphasis was on a social search tool that allows site visitors… Continue Reading
Wikia to launch social search engine — amid a sea of others
Wikia, the San Mateo start-up founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, is working on a search engine that will use the same strategy as Wikipedia’s user-reliant encyclopedia.
The project is secretive, but has a preliminary launch date of the first quarter of 2007, the Times of London… Continue Reading
3DV, a depth dimension video camera co., raises $15M — maybe
Tel Aviv company Elron Electronic Industries said that its 3DV Systems unit has reached an agreement with Kleiner Perkins and Pitango Venture Capital for a $15 investment into 3DV.
It is just the latest move by local valley firm Kleiner Perkins to expand its focus outside… Continue Reading
The social search engines keep coming — this time, it’s Collarity
Collarity is yet another Silicon Valley search engine start-up that wants to personalize your search results.
It does this by integrating things it knows about you — and from your surrounding community — garnered from past searches.
First, a warning: Too many search engines exist… Continue Reading