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Yahoo search VP Larry Cornett Leaves
Jun 24th
Larry Cornett, Yahoo’s Vice President of Search Consumer Products, is leaving the company he’s worked for four years, he announced today on his personal blog. His departure was first reported by Search Engine Land. The news comes just over two weeks after Yahoo laid off a portion of its search team, likely as a result More >
Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Leaves Google
Jun 1st
Over a year after joining Google, Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious and a Yahoo exec until June 2008, is leaving the search giant, according to a Tweet he just sent out. Schachter sent out another Tweet shortly after the first message stating that he has “no clue what he’s doing next.” Schachter confirmed to More >
BillShrink CEO Peter Pham Leaves To Become An EIR At Trinity Ventures
May 28th
Peter Pham, CEO of BillShrink, has just Tweeted that he’s leaving the startup to be an entrepreneur-in-residence at VC firm Trinity Ventures. According to a blog post, Pham is “moving on to pursue new entrepreneurial opportunities as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Trinity Ventures, which led BillShrink’s Series B of $8 million.”
Twitter Forefather Leaves, Aims to Disrupt Banking Next
May 17th
Imagine a web-based bank that let you deposit checks by simply photographing them with its mobile app. It lets you make cash withdrawals from ATMs all over the country at no cost, sometimes even re-embursing you for fees you get charged by other companies. As a social web application, the More >
Jonathan Trevor, Builder Of Yahoo Pipes And YQL, Leaves For Polyvore
May 10th
Another engineering star is leaving Yahoo, we’ve confirmed: Jonathan Trevor is moving on to Polyvore, a visual shopping search engine. Trevor, along with Daniel Raffel and Pasha Sadri, were the core product and engineering team behind the Pipes product, and Trevor also built YQL.
Polyvore was founded in late 2007 and has raised just More >
OneRiot Leaves Beta With A New Engine To Find Trending Topics Before They’re Trending
May 7th
It was almost exactly a year ago when OneRiot launched its realtime search engine. At the time, the playing field was much different. “Realtime” was just emerging as a hot buzz word, and Twitter had about half of the features that it has now. Facebook had just started going realtime, and I’d argue More >
Tagwhat Leaves Read-Only Augmented Reality Browsers Behind
May 7th
Tagwhat, an augmented reality creation and distribution system, publicly launched this week bringing the world of augmented reality into the realm of Web 2.0.
While other augmented realtiy browsers, such as Wikitude and Layar, let the user provide information overlays over live video, Tagwhat allows users to create these overlays as well.
According to More >
Spell It Out: Co-Founder Of reCAPTCHA Leaves Google For Facebook
May 3rd
In September of last year, Google made a smart and obvious acquisition: reCAPTCHA, the service helps secure websites while at the same time helping computers learn to read old, scanned text. Google had reportedly been working on its own CAPTCHA solution, but found reCAPTCHA’s better, and were undoubtedly happy to welcome More >