With 100M users, Truecaller starts making call suggestions
The well-funded Swedish app is now using algorithms to suggest who its users should call, based on their call history, as well as time and place.
The well-funded Swedish app is now using algorithms to suggest who its users should call, based on their call history, as well as time and place.
Mechanic Advisor is launching its own connected car device that plugs into your vehicle’s on-board diagnostic port and helps you interpret that scary check engine light when it starts blinking on the dash.
The amount of data that Airbnb has about users and their accommodation preferences has grown to the point where the company believes it can start recommending trips to them before they have to search through the listings.
Yummly’s first mobile app doesn’t just port its semantic food search engine over to iOS. Rather, the company has designed its iPhone app to be used in the grocery store rather than the kitchen.
The subject happens to be dining, but what Ness is up to is really about maximizing the accuracy of personalization.
A conversation with a payments processing company that offers small businesses a side of data, got me thinking about how data may change your customer service experience and maybe distort markets.
Foursquare has said it’s gunning for Yelp and Google and now it has a 10-point rating system that shows how it will compete head-on in the local search and recommendation space.
Can Facebook do things with a billion users that it couldn’t do with half that number? CEO Mark Zuckerberg is dropping hints, but so far, they’re just hints.
Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams has launched a news-filtering service called Nuzzel that is powered by social-networking activity. But while his previous ventures have been early to the market, his new offering suffers from the opposite problem — the market is already saturated with similar services.
Snooth is making wine recommendations on every recipe that Springpad users clip. Rather than hire an army of sommeliers to suggest pairings for the countless recipes on the web, Snoot has built an algorithm that deconstructs recipes and matches them to their ideal wine profiles.