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Why eBay is buying recommendation engine Hunch

EBay has announced it is buying New York start-up Hunch, a recommendation engine start-up created by Chris Dixon and Caterina Fake, to help improve its recommendation services. The purchase price hasn’t been announced but venture capital investor and former TechCrunch … Continue reading

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Engine Yard plugs Node.js into its cloud

Engine Yard’s Platform-as-a-Service offering is adding support for Node.js applications. This is just the latest indication that Node.js, a server-based and event-driven JavaScript framework, is becoming table stakes in cloud development and deployment environments. Engine Yard competitors like AppFog and … Continue reading

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Unity Engine won’t support Windows Phone 7

Unity, the company behind the popular Unity game engine and development tools, won’t support Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system although it might support the next version of the mobile OS. Read more… Neowin.net

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LinkedIn acquires search engine startup IndexTank

LinkedIn made its second small acquisition in as many weeks with the purchase of IndexTank, a San Francisco-based startup that makes a real-time, hosted search engine service. Financial terms of the deal have not been announced, but it looks like … Continue reading

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Datafiniti builds a webscale search engine for data

There’s a lot of talk about the democratization of data, but simply making data sets publicly available leaves unresloved a couple of key problems. One is that users have to know the data is available, and the other is they … Continue reading

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