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DecoBros 400lb 15” Ultra Wide Platform Precision Plus Digital Bathroom Scale with and Extra Large LCD Display, Step-On Startup

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DecoBros 400lb 15” Ultra Wide Platform Precision Plus Digital Bathroom Scale with and Extra Large LCD Display, Step-On Startup

DecoBros 400lb 15'' Ultra Wide Platform Precision Plus Digital Bathroom Scale with and Extra Large LCD Display, Step-On Startup

  • 15” ULTRA Wide Platform
  • Accurate measurement up to 400 lbs/180 kg; Graduation increments of .2 lbs
  • Auto Step-ON: Step on the scale to get instant readings, no tapping required
  • Large backit 3.5″ LCD display
  • Battery: 2 x 1.5v AAA (included)

DecoBros Body Scale has two weight unit system pound and kilogram. Enjoy DecoBros products to make your life simple and elegant.

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Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment

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Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment

Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment

Over the last decade or so, we’re seeing the emergence of a new form of scale. Today’s massively scaling startups – which rapidly grow to millions of users and billions in valuation – do not sell a product or service. Instead, they build a platform on which others can create and exchange value.

The many manifestations of the platform business model – social media, the peer economy, cryptocurrencies, APIs and developer ecosystems, the Internet of things, crowdsourcing models, and many oth

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Jobhuk.com a Crowdsourcing Platform for Hiring Which was launched at SXSW 2013 is Now One of the Hottest Start-ups in Austin,TX

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Austin,TX (PRWEB) March 15, 2013

It is never less exciting for start-ups launching at SXSW. This year one of the startups Jobhuk.com, launched at the SXSW Startup Spotlight, has become the new buzzword on the street. Jobhuk.com says they are on a mission to disrupt the human capital space with “CrowdSourced Hiring.”

Their revolutionary recruiting platform is focused on hiring through crowdsourced referrals. Jobhuk leverages human network, the crowd, around the world to support and get best referrals for employers trying to hire best resources. It benefits employers avoiding all regular spam they experience in their hiring process. The crowd gets incentives as heavy as 1%-15% of the gross salary, as a Finders Fee set by employers for each successful hire.

Jobhuk’s has two side for it, First, “Hire by Referral” reveals that all applicants must be referred by a Jobhuk user, defined by anyone with a LinkedIn, Facebook, or simply an email account. Second, “Refer and Get Paid” means that the referring Jobhuk users gets paid finders fee when their referral is hired.

Praneeth Patlola, founder of Jobhuk.com has spent several years in the staffing and recruiting industry. He knew there was a better and more efficient way for companies to find great candidates. Recruiting firms charge commissions of up to 30%, a very costly endeavor to gain access to a relatively limited candidate pool. Online hiring platforms often charge high fees and produce unqualified talent and spam with no guaranteed results. 90% of team he has built was based on referrals to whom he says, he paid a decent amount of referral fees. He spent years searching for the best recruits, experimenting with various methodologies to source qualified candidates. After much trial and error, Patlola identified referrals as consistently the best recruits and most likely to become successful hires. He says, everyone, including himself asks the same question to friends, friends of friends, family members, and co-workers, “Do you know anyone who would be a good fit for this position?” The unveiling of Jobhuk allows employers to ask the same question, but now in real time, to tens of millions of Facebook, LinkedIn, and other network users.







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Pricing Engine Launches the First Solution for Small Businesses to Create, Manage and Optimize Online Advertising from a Single Platform

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New York, NY (PRWEB) March 15, 2013

Pricing Engine, http://www.pricingengine.com, today announced the launch of an easy-to-use but powerful platform for online advertising that levels the playing field for small business owners looking to significantly improve the performance of their ad dollars. The Pricing Engine platform is available now for optimizing multichannel search marketing campaigns, with tools for display media, social media advertising and e-commerce coming later this year.

Pricing Engine was founded by CEO Jeremy Kagan, formerly a Vice President with the Global Digital Business of Sony Music Entertainment, and Vice President of Strategy at digital agency Publicis Modem, and Chief Technology Officer Yagmur Coker, former Lead Technologist for The Knot. Kagan, also a long-time adjunct professor of digital marketing at Columbia Business School, recognized the need for a simple tool for the smaller advertiser after years of consulting and agency work with clients of all sizes.

“The vast majority of small business owners are either too busy running their operations to effectively manage their online advertising campaigns, or can’t afford optimization platforms used by the Fortune 500 – or both,” said Kagan. “Because of this, we saw a clear need in the marketplace for a solution that allows small businesses to improve their ad performance in a simple, efficient and unified manner. Pricing Engine gives small business owners a decided edge in terms of their ability to get more sales and leads through digital advertising.”

Pricing Engine is a game-changer for small business owners lacking the time, resources or expertise to improve their search marketing and digital advertising performance. It uses patent-pending, data-based algorithms and predictive analytics to provide recommendations in plain English – not ad tech jargon – on what works, what doesn’t and how to improve.

Pricing Engine’s benchmarks are based on anonymous data crowd-sourced from peer businesses via advertising channels like Google and Microsoft. It compares a business’s ad performance against peers based on a number of user-selected parameters such as type of business, industry, geography and advertising budget. Pricing Engine provides a letter grade of performance in key areas, as well as recommended improvements – including use of keywords and ad copy – and critically, the estimated dollar value of an improvement in terms of sales or leads. Diagnostic tools designed for different business types ensure common mistakes are quickly identified and fixed.

Pricing Engine employs machine learning to refine and improve results. The system gets “smarter” over time based on the volume of data available, and on campaign performance across the various combinations of selection criteria.

During its beta period, the company has signed up hundreds of small business owners who have used the system and suggested enhancements. To accelerate the process, Pricing Engine is working with resellers in a number of industries to reach small businesses. To date it has signed reseller partners with access to more than 500,000 U.S. small business owners and will be rolling out the system with its partners across the country in the coming months.

Now Pricing Engine is being released to the general public, with a powerful yet simple dashboard that allows users to both create and manage search campaigns simultaneously across Google, Yahoo and Bing. Campaigns can be created once and deployed everywhere with changes to improve performance pushed out to all channels at the same time – making management easy and fast.

Over the next few months, enhancements will be added to the Pricing Engine platform for display advertising (Google Display and LiveIntent, among other channels), social media marketing (Facebook, LinkedIn, and others) and e-commerce (Amazon Product Ads and Google Shopping, among other channels).

About Pricing Engine

Pricing Engine is the first solution that provides small business owners access to a single, easy-to-use platform that lets them optimize their investment in online advertising across various channels without being digital media experts or expending resources they don’t have. Its “report card” feature assigns a letter grade on ad performance, based on benchmarking using variables like geography, type of business and budget, and tells users in plain English how they can improve their results. Pricing Engine’s patent-pending, powerful algorithm-based predictive analytics continually refine and improve ad performance. Now available to optimize search advertising campaigns for small businesses, the platform will soon be expanded to include tools for improving display advertising, social media marketing and e-commerce results as well. For more information, visit http://www.pricingengine.com.







VictorOps Releases Platform to Address Needs of Modern DevOps Teams; Applies Social Media Principle of Continuous Partial Attention to DevOps

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Boulder, CO (PRWEB) February 12, 2014

Coming into 2014 with momentum from a successful fourth quarter of 2013 and Series A funding, VictorOps is tackling the problems facing DevOps teams by taking a cue from social media. Today the company announced the general availability of its alerting and collaboration platform with nearly 200 companies coming out of beta.

This age of continuous software deployment means that larger and larger numbers of development and IT professionals have to be engaged around-the-clock to solve outages and performance issues. For example, a developer responsible for the most recent code change might need to collaborate with the on-call Operations person to resolve a middle-of-the-night problem.

VictorOps platform addresses this challenge by applying the social media principle of Continuous Partial Attention – the process of paying simultaneous attention to a number of information sources but without being 100% committed. Using VictorOps platform, an extended team of developers and operations can stay engaged as needed, boosting collaboration and speeding time to resolution.

“It isn’t just about alert monitoring anymore. Around 70% of an average outage is spent on finding the person with the right knowledge and working together to solve the problem,” said Todd Vernon, CEO and co-founder of VictorOps. “VictorOps leverages the power of Continuous Partial Attention for good in DevOps – enabling Dev and Ops teams to stay connected and make being on-call suck less for everybody.”

General availability features of VictorOps platform include:

On-call schedule management – Users are alerted when and how they want by customizing personal notification policies. Manage teams, on-call rotations and notifications.

Alerting and escalation – When an alert becomes critical, VictorOps makes sure the right person knows about, and that the entire team is up-to-speed on the status.

Incident management – Users get alerted their way. Additional team members can be added through Twitter-like @ mentions to automatically have situational awareness of the incident and everything leading up to it. Swap on-call on the fly and everyone can see the change.

DevOps timeline – VictorOps digests all of the data from existing monitoring systems into a timeline feed so users know the health of their infrastructure at a glance. See what’s up with the team and what they’re talking about.

Team collaboration – By pulling in team members who know how to solve the problem faster, users reduce time-to-resolution and get back to their life.

Fault tolerance – VictorOps is engineered from the ground up for availability, from its redundant network switches to clustered application code. The company’s service is hosted in a state-of-the-art, Tier III Design Certified data center with industry-leading colocation service level agreements. Coming in Q1, VictorOps will run in multiple data centers for even greater reliability.

About VictorOps

VictorOps is the world’s first collaborative platform designed for DevOps teams that combines the power of people and data to solve IT problems in real-time. The VictorOps platform seamlessly orchestrates team situational awareness, incident creation, escalation, notification, and remediation with team members regardless of physical location or time of day. Privately held, VictorOps is backed by Costanoa Venture Capital and Foundry Group. For more information, visit http://www.victorops.com and follow the company on Twitter @GoVictorOps.







PersonalWeb Releases Social Learning Platform Update Enabling College Students to 'Study Together From Wherever'

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Tyler, TX (PRWEB) March 19, 2013

Internet technology company PersonalWeb® announced today the launch of its latest version of StudyPods®, a collaborative social-learning platform for university and college students to connect and share academic knowledge with each other at their own university or at colleges worldwide. The site, created with the help of students in The University of Texas System, enables students to connect, collaborate and share academic knowledge with each other at their own university or at colleges worldwide.

“We’ve adopted a new slogan ‘Study together from wherever’ because it better describes one of the key benefits for using StudyPods so students can easily form virtual study groups,” PersonalWeb President Michael Weiss said.

StudyPods new version 2.3 provides a simplified user interface so students can navigate the study-help site more effectively. Free storage space is now increased to 5GBs for each user to ensure there is ample space to store files. Also included are intuitive prompts explaining key functions and tools featured on the site enabling students to quickly become familiar with all the features of StudyPods.

Through StudyPods, students can create individual Pods based on their college coursework. They can fill pods with anything and everything related to their classes, from presentation slides, past tests to homework assignments, notes, and images. This information can then be shared with other students with similar class subjects who can also contribute content to the Pod. Students can easily find the research they need to help complete assignments, locate similar documents and find Pods that they wish to join.

StudyPods users can also connect with each other instantly through chat and notifications; making group projects more efficient and easier to coordinate.

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About PersonalWeb: PersonalWeb was established in Tyler, Texas by a team who has been responsible for creating some of the Internet’s most popular software and applications used by tens of millions of people worldwide. The company develops groundbreaking products based on its patented technology that is fundamental for many important elements of cloud computing technology, distributed search engine file systems, social media and content addressable storage. For more information, please visit http://www.personalweb.com







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Basketball Madness Reaches New Heights With Music Dealers' Enhanced Music Tech Platform

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 20, 2013

Global music tech company, Music Dealers, announced today the launch of The Music Dealers Discovery Tool version 3.0, further revolutionizing the methods by which content creators search for, discover and license music to enhance their creative projects.

The Discovery Tool was first used by CBS, one of Music Dealers’ partners, for the big game broadcast in New Orleans this past February. The music tech platform allows the sports network to cut licensed music on-site from some of the best emerging musicians in the region. CBS will also utilize the company’s platform for the upcoming popular NCAA basketball tournament.

CBS relies on Music Dealers to equip their team with The Discovery Tool’s intuitive, reliable platform that gives network producers and editors real-time, universal access to authentic tracks when making live, on-site edits during their highest viewed broadcasts like the big game and NCAA basketball tournament.

“By providing premium quality music from breakout indie talent representing the sounds and genres most appealing to CBS’s core demographics, Music Dealers helps the network consistently deliver highly personalized viewing experiences and cultivate rich, meaningful connections with its audience,” said Music Dealers CEO and co-founder, Eric Sheinkop.

The company’s proprietary music tech platform, The Discovery Tool, is the gateway through which content creators can access the company’s global artist community, comprised of over 20,000 of the most highly sought-after emerging musicians in over 70 countries around the world.

The Discovery Tool’s latest enhancements empower Music Dealers clients in the advertising, TV, sports, film and gaming industries as well as its brand partners like The Coca-Cola Company, to source music from the world’s largest emerging music-licensing database using the most accurate and efficient music technology tool kit available in today’s marketplace. Through the Discovery Tool’s new “Location” search filter and revamped artist profiles that now feature robust artist demographic information, Music Dealers’ global brand and entertainment partners are driving additional value for their worldwide campaigns by localizing music for audiences of specific markets.

“Nothing brings people together like music and sports,” said Sheinkop. “Our Discovery Tool platform represents disruptive technology at its best and for the first time you can search the world’s highest quality emerging artists all available and pre-cleared by way of the largest searchable database. This platform was built to streamline the music discovery process, enhance creative projects for our partners and deepen audience connections, while providing the world’s best indie artists with the funding, exposure and distribution necessary to propel their careers to the next level.”

To highlight the New Indie Players Sparking Madness in the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament, Music Dealers sifted through thousands of artists to compile some of the most current sounds about to hit the market today. The following link showcases artists from the Midwest, South, East and West regions whose music you will hear over coming weeks as college basketball stars dribble, pass and shoot their way to NCAA championship gold: http://j.mp/14aF8dt.

In the spirit of competition, Music Dealers (@MusicDealers) is encouraging sports and music fans to tweet their favorite artist name from their ‘Indie Players Spark Madness’ playlists, and tag their tweet with #TheGreatUnsigned. Every tweet enters fans into a drawing for the chance to win a Great Unsigned swag pack and all access passes to their favorite artist’s next show in their city. Three lucky winners will be randomly selected and announced the morning of the NCAA championship game on April 8th.

Music Dealers offers content creators free access to The Discovery Tool and never charges artists for inclusion in the Music Dealers licensing catalog. Music-seekers can instantly take advantage of The Discovery Tool’s enhanced features by signing up for a Music Dealers Want Music account. Artists who would like their music considered for future music licensing opportunities can create a Music Dealers Artist Profile and submit their music for review of acceptance in just a few easy steps.

About Music Dealers

Music Dealers™ is a global music technology company that provides clients in the advertising, television, film and gaming industries with the highest quality emerging music to enhance their work. Powered by a global artist community of the world’s top breakout artists, Music Dealers crowd-sources existing and original music, procures brand partnerships, live performances and offers the largest emerging artist music-licensing database in the world. In 2011, Music Dealers cemented a groundbreaking partnership with The Coca-Cola Company, which secured Music Dealers’ position as the organization’s exclusive global music partner and earned Coca-Cola a minority stake in the company. Music Dealers is based in Chicago, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, London and Mexico City. For more info, please visit: http://www.musicdealers.com.

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QA on Request Launches New Crowdsourced Testing Platform, Enters Wayra

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Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) May 30, 2013

Montreal startup QA on Request announces that it has launched a new crowdsourced testing platform and entered Wayra, Telefonica’s global accelerator.

Wayra provides selected startups with $ 50,000 in financing, as well as technical and managerial support. The news comes as QA on Request closes the chapter on its six-month participation in Start-Up Chile, a similar initiative funded by the Chilean government.

“Telefonica obviously selects companies with very high growth potential, but specifically companies developing innovative solutions that can cater to its partners in Europe and Latin America” says Simon Papineau, the company’s CEO. “We are very optimistic about the business possibilities resulting of our participation in Wayra.”

Crowdsourced testing: innovation in software testing

QA on Request has recently launched a crowdsourcing platform dedicated to software testing known as the Crowdsourced Testing company.

“Software testing is a pain for developers” explains Papineau, the company’s 29 years old founder. “It is time-consuming, difficult to manage and highly irregular. The industry was in dire need of innovation.”

The young founder certainly knows what he is talking about: at 23, he managed one of Gameloft’s video game development studios in Argentina. He later co-founded we+are interactive, a web and mobile development company known for its work on Radio-Canada’s Tou.tv Android application, SidLee’s website in HTML5 and several award-winning websites such as Du Big Bang au Vivant, based on the documentary with Hubert Reeves.

“Our crowdsourced software testing platform helps developers streamline their quality assurance testing process while expanding the number of devices and operating systems that their products are tested on. It is truly a breath of fresh air in an industry facing many challenges related to software testing due to the growing number of internet-ready devices in the world.”

About QA on Request

Founded in 2011, QA on Request provides quality assurance testing services to web and software development companies. The company was a part of Start-up Chile’s fifth cohort, as well as a finalist in the 2011 Angel Investors Challenge and a recipient of the Young Entrepreneur grant.

For more information about QA on Request and the Crowdsourced Testing company, visit: http://crowdsourcedtesting.com







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WePay Raises $15 Million in Series C Funding to Grow its Payments API for Platform Businesses

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Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) January 16, 2014

WePay, the payments company behind platform businesses, announced today $ 15 million in Series C financing. The company will use the funds to accelerate its growth through further investments in its payments API product and international expansion. Revenue from WePay’s payments API has grown over 600% in the last year, and the company has over 300 platform partners. In addition, today the company is announcing its plans to discontinue its direct-to-consumer offering in order to focus exclusively on its payments API built specifically for platform businesses such as online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software.

This round of financing was led by financial services and payments pioneer Phil Purcell of Continental Investors, co-founder of the Discover Card and former CEO of Morgan Stanley. Continental Investors has investments in several notable financial services companies, including the leading mobile payment and loyalty company, LevelUp. Paul Purcell will represent Continental on the WePay board.

A number of top technology and payments experts also participated, including:

    Max Levchin, founder & former CTO of PayPal
    Maynard Webb (Chairman of Yahoo!, board member of Salesforce, former COO of eBay, and former CEO of LiveOps), through the Webb Investment Network (WIN), his early-stage venture capital firm
    Angel investor Raymond Tonsing

All existing institutional investors, including Highland Capital Partners, August Capital and Ignition Partners, participated in this round. This round brings WePay’s total financing to $ 35 million.

“Platform businesses like online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software are the most exciting segment of ecommerce today,” said Paul Purcell of Continental. “WePay’s focus here, coupled with their ability to give these platforms a payment solution that offers both flexibility and protection from fraud and compliance risk, is a recipe for success.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Continental to the WePay family. The team’s depth of operating and investment experience with later stage companies, payments, financial services and the public markets will be invaluable to WePay as we grow,” said Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.

Unlike general-purpose payment APIs and processors, WePay is uniquely focused on serving platform businesses such as online marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software. WePay gives these platforms the flexibility they need to design new commerce experiences while still protecting them from the burdens of fraud and compliance. WePay’s proprietary VedaTM social risk engine underpins its API and is honed to understand the platform’s users.

About WePay

The WePay® payment API is built specifically for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites and small business software. These platforms are empowering millions of users worldwide to unlock all kinds of creative commerce. Through its proprietary VedaTM social risk engine, WePay gives platforms a flexible payment API that provides a great user experience while still taking on all their fraud risk and compliance burdens.

WePay has processed transactions for more than 250,000 customers and over 300 partners. Platform businesses such as GoFundMe, HoneyFund, CustomMade, Care.com and LessAccounting have chosen WePay’s API to handle their payments. The company’s customer service team won the 2013 Gold Stevie Award for its outstanding work with customers. For more information visit http://www.wepay.com.

About Continental Investors

Continental Investors is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Phil Purcell. Continental invests in private companies primarily in the financial service industry and in consumer businesses where the Internet is important. Continental Investors are a strategic source of capital and look for opportunities where their industry experience and relationships can benefit management and other private investors. Prior to Continental, Phil was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dean Witter, Discover & Co. from 1986 until they acquired Morgan Stanley Group Inc. in 1997. He then served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley until his retirement in 2005. Paul Purcell has nearly15 years of experience deploying capital in public and private markets for financial services and payments companies.

WePay is a registered trademark, and Veda is a trademark, of WePay, Inc.







Artificial Intelligence Platform Parakweet Raises $2 Million in Angel Funding

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San Francisco (PRWEB) June 18, 2013

Parakweet, Inc. today announced it secured $ 2 million in funding. The company has developed a proprietary artificial intelligence platform that uses social media- specific natural language processing (NLP) to detect and extract meaning from millions of unstructured conversations and accurately identify consumer behavior, intent and sentiment. Parakweet will use the funds for new product innovation and continued development of BookVibe, its recently launched book discovery engine.    

The funding was led by a group of high-profile investors including Scott Banister, an early investor in PayPal, Zappos and Powerset; Alan Braverman, co-founder of Yammer and Eventbrite; David Jeske, former Director of Engineering at Google; and other angel investors and entrepreneurs.

Parakweet’s platform is fine-tuned for specific vertical markets, in order to best extract meaning from short, unstructured social media updates. BookVibe, Parakweet’s consumer-facing book recommendations product, scans a user’s social graph and extracts tweets that are actually about books with 96 percent accuracy. It also detects and distinguishes the person’s sentiment about the book—not the overall tweet. For example, if a tweet reads: “I’m reading War and Peace since the weather is lousy,” BookVibe understands that lousy refers to the weather, not the book. Some of the behaviors BookVibe identifies include “intent to read,” “read” and “recommend.” Furthermore, the Parakweet platform does not require users to join or recreate yet another social network.

“We started Parakweet to distill actionable insights from the unstructured language of social media,” said CEO and co-founder Ramesh Haridas. “Today, we’re providing consumers with book recommendations based on a user’s personal interests and the interests and affinities of the people they follow. Our platform also allows companies to tap into the behavioral signals consumers are generating across social media and uncover actionable and competitive insights.”

Added Haridas, “We’re inspired to have the backing and support of such a notable group of angel investors and tech entrepreneurs. With this funding, we’ve taken a decisive step to transform how meaning and understanding is derived from massive amounts of social media, which often includes slang, abbreviations and no punctuation—something that Parakweet is using natural language processing to solve.”

Investor Scott Banister added, “Parakweet’s disruptive technology gets under the hood of social media language and captures human behaviors with remarkable accuracy. Books and movies are just the tip of the iceberg for applications of Parakweet’s natural language processing engine.”

Parakweet was founded by a team of successful entrepreneurs and computer scientists including serial entrepreneur Ramesh Haridas; machine learning and search technologist Kiam Choo; and artificial intelligence software architect Ilmars Poikans.

About Parakweet

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, Parakweet is a platform that offers product recommendations to consumers and social media analytics and metadata to global media companies. Parakweet’s proprietary artificial intelligence platform uses natural language processing technology to extract meaning from unstructured social content and accurately identify associated behaviors, intent and sentiment. Parakweet’s first product BookVibe is a social discovery and book recommendation engine for consumers launched in 2013. For more information, please visit http://www.parakweet.com.







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