The background-check scams: Is WhitePages really better than Intelius?
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WhitePages has released a mobile application on the BlackBerry Bold that, among other things, lets you screen incoming callers to see who they are before you answer. For example, it lets you see if a caller is a telemarketer by checking the number against its database of profiles (video demo here). It will follow on other BlackBerry models soon.
More on the cool app in a sec. First, though, that the company’s released a call-screener is… Continue Reading
Intelius buys Spock, the people search engine
Intelius, a company that performs background checks on people, has acquired Spock, a people search engine, for an undisclosed amount.
The deal was signed today, VentureBeat just confirmed with Spock’s co-founder Jaideep Singh. Unconfirmed rumors of the deal first appeared yesterday on Techcrunch.
We wrote about Spock when it first launched in 2007, and became the first search engine to add a range of new social networking features, including letting users choose what sort of personality tags… Continue Reading