Auction site eBay announced it has acquired Hunch, for an undisclosed price. Founders Chris Dixon, Tom Pinckney and Matt Gattis, will stay on at eBay and remain based in New York Hunch is an online recommendation platform launched in 2009. It uses web data to create "Hunches" and map them so it can start to predict the products, services, websites, or just
Netflix is finally coming to Android devices, albeit slowly, to specific devices at a time. So far, the free Netflix app will show up in the Android Marketplace on the HTC Evo 4G, the HTC Incredible, the HTC Nexus One, the HTC G2, and the Samsung Nexus S. I have (and still love) a Sprint HTC Evo 4G, so upon
Grooveshark has become one of my favorite web apps. If you're a music fan then this is THE destination for checking out songs and deciding what you want to buy and what isn't as good, upon second listen, as you thought. Recently it entered the Android Marketplace...and then exited it just as quickly. Grooveshark is a controversial program, but tobody,
Adam Curry is a clever guy. Back in 2004 he was working on the concept of podcasting. Now he is pioneering smartphone apps. About 6 months ago, Adam Curry came out with a free iPhone application called “The Big App Show.” Each day, day in and day out, Curry records a new video of himself demonstrating an iPhone app. The
It seems in the world of computers and the Internet there is always a steady stream of new things on the horizon, as well as a steady stream of new products and services. It’s been this way for many years at this point. There are always winners and losers. Winners can win big, and losers at worst fail to make