Wavii

Wavii From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Wavii Wavii Logo Available in English Owner Alphabet Inc. Commercial yes Launched Late 2008 Current status Active (Integrated in Google) Wavii was a Seattle startup founded by Adrian Aoun in 2008, and was subsequently acquired by Google, Inc. in April 2013.[1] Wavii developed an iPhone app that allowed users to follow topics (e.g., a company, celebrity, politician, athlete, city, etc.) and receive short updates about them in their feed. This app was based on data produced by Wavii's proprietary technology, which used natural-language-processing and machine-learning approaches to convert content on the web (e.g., news articles and blogs) into structured summaries of the stories they contained.[2] Wavii's team was primarily former Last.fm, Microsoft, and Amazon engineers.[3] Contents 1 Wavii's product 2 Google acquisition 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links Wavii's product [icon] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (February 2014) Google acquisition On April 30, 2013 it was announced that Google, Inc. had acquired Wavii for an amount that was officially undisclosed, but which industry insiders claimed was over $30 million USD. The acquisition was viewed as a way for Google to expand their ability to understand the web for search and to summarize content.[4] Google discontinued the Wavii iPhone app and website, but the company reported that it is continuing to run Wavii's technology and produce feed content for applications within Google.[5] Following the acquisition Wavii's team relocated from Seattle to the San Francisco Bay area.[6] References Ingrid Lunden (2013-04-26). "Wavii Confirms Google Buy, Shuts Down Its Service To Make Natural Language Products For The Search Giant". TechCrunch. Santos, Alexis (2013-04-24). "Google reportedly acquires natural language processing startup Wavii". Engadget.com. Retrieved 2013-08-25. "Join". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2013-08-25. Efrati, Amir (2013-04-23). "Google Acquires Wavii to Beef Up Web-Search 'Knowledge Graph' - Digits - WSJ". Blogs.wsj.com. Retrieved 2013-08-25. "Wavii". Wavii. Retrieved 2013-08-25. "Wavii officially acquired by Google, app shuts down". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2013-08-25.