Image search race: Polar Rose, Pixsy, Snap, Ookles, Riya — list is getting long
Google and Yahoo have image and video search, but they’ve kept things to themselves, oddly not syndicating these for other sites to use like they have with their text search engines.
No doubt, they will do so soon. Meantime, a host of specialized image search… Continue Reading
Pluggd “perfects” audio and video search, raises $1.65M
Declaring it has “perfected the user experience” for audio and visual search, Seattle start-up Pluggd has raised $1.65 million from Intel and angel investors to help it start distributing its technology.
If you haven’t played with Pluggd, you should. It provides that “wow” experience, giving you… Continue Reading
Redfern, an optical transmitter co., raises $7M more
Redfern Integrated Optics, a developer and manufacturer of high-performance optical transmitters for communications, said it has raised an additional $7 million from TMT Ventures, Tallwood Venture Capital and Jolimont Capital.
This is another one of the multiple companies founded during the telecom bubble year of… Continue Reading