| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.02.2026 | Barnsley Named UK’s First Government-Backed Tech Town in AI Push | Image: Creative Commons
Move over, smart homes. AI towns could be the next big thing.
Barnsley, a former coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, has been named the UK’s first government-backed “Tech Town,” tasked with showing how AI can be inc... |
| 10.12.2025 | Will Andrew Bailey be Santa or Scrooge this Christmas? | The Notebook, where the City’s movers and shakers have their say, Today it’s Susannah Streeter with the pen
Christmas spirit seems to have spread a lot faster this year. I’ve never seen so many trees up in windows quite so early and there s... |
| 22.10.2025 | Evri and Yodel named worst parcel deliverers again | Evri and Yodel have once again been named as the two worst parcel delivery companies in the UK for customer satisfaction, according to a new survey.
In regulator Ofcom’s annual survey, Evri posted a dissatisfaction score of 41 per cent with... |
| 08.10.2025 | Yodel: Losses double at UK’s second-worst parcel delivery firm | Losses at Yodel, which was named as the second-worst parcel delivery firm in the UK in 2024, have more than doubled as its revenue was slashed.
The Liverpool-headquartered business has reported a pre-tax loss of £105.2m for its latest finan... |
| 23.07.2025 | Evri: Boom in bedroom CEOs drives best-ever parcel deliveries | Evri has delivered record results thanks to a boom in second-hand sellers sending parcels with the logistics giant.
The parcel delivery company, which was acquired by private equity firm Apollo from Advent International in 2024 for £2.7bn, ... |
| 09.06.2025 | Evri and OEG Energy: Two Giants on the Rise | In the bustling world of business, two stories stand out like beacons in the fog. Evri, a parcel delivery giant, and OEG Energy Group, a powerhouse in the energy sector, are both making waves. Each company is navigating its own waters, but ... |
| 09.06.2025 | Evri to ramp up courier workforce after DHL partnership | Evri is planning to hire 5,000 couriers in a fresh recruitment drive as the parcel giant takes on rivals after entering the business letter market.
The Yorkshire-based firm recently announced it was joining forces with DHL’s UK ecommerce ar... |
| 15.05.2025 | The New Era of Logistics and Automation: Mergers and AI Innovations Shape the Future | The logistics and technology sectors are in a state of rapid transformation. Recent developments reveal a landscape where mergers and artificial intelligence (AI) are redefining the rules of engagement. Companies are not just adapting; they... |
| 14.05.2025 | Package deal: Evri to merge with DHL ecommerce arm | Parcel delivery company Evri is set to merge with DHL eCommerce UK, the e-commerce logistics specialist of DHL Group, in yet another example of consolidation in the sector.
The merged Evri business is set to deliver over a billion parcels a... |
| 08.05.2025 | Wagestream's £300M Leap: A New Dawn for Financial Wellbeing | In the bustling world of fintech, Wagestream has made waves. The London-based company recently secured a staggering £300 million debt financing facility from Citi. This move is not just a financial boost; it’s a lifeline for many employees ... |
| 07.05.2025 | Wagestream Secures £300M Debt Financing Facility From Citi | Wagestream, a London, UK-based company providing financial wellbeing solutions, raised £300M in debt financing facility provided by Citi.
The company intends to allocate the amount of expand the Workplace Loans product offering to its UK me... |
| 04.04.2025 | Rivr: four-legged robot becomes parcels courier in the UK |
Rivr (formerly Swiss-Mile) is pioneering General Physical AI by deploying robots in last-mile delivery, giving one human the power of 1,000 robots. By combining artificial neural networks with a wheeled-leg robot design, Rivr enhances effi... |
| 18.11.2024 | Evri serves up record deliveries as online shopping soars | - |
| 04.07.2024 | DIGIT Deal Round Up | June 2024 | Welcome to the latest edition of the DIGIT Deal Roundup.
Last month, Scotland’s tech sector saw some big funding wins in medical tech, electric vehicles, satellites, and the broader innovation economy.
For a recap on those standout stories,... |
| 03.06.2024 | Evri Invests £1M in AI to “Further Transform” Its Customer Service | UK parcel company Evri has announced that it’s investing £1 million in its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to “further transform” its customer service, as well as parcel security and workforce planning.
Formerly known as Hermes, the c... |
| 13.05.2024 | 'Spray and Pray' iMessage Scam Haunts iPhone Owners: How to Avoid Losing Your Hard-Earned Money From it | By Joseph Henry
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Parcel delivery company Evri has issued a warning about a pervasive iMessage phishing... |
| 05.10.2012 | Paul Allen-backed news aggregator Evri calls it quits | Evri has met the end of the road. The Seattle startup, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has decided to wind down its commercial offerings, focusing now on R&D efforts, GeekWire has learned.
“Evri has made the decision to chang... |
| 03.08.2012 | SportStream’s App Bottles the Social Media Explosion in Sports | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I don’t have much of a head for sports. If you said “ERA” my first thought would be Equal Rights Amendment, not Earned Run Average. And being a cable TV cord-cutter, I never w... |
| 14.06.2012 | Evri spins out SportStream with $3.5M from Paul Allen | Seattle startup Evri was founded in 2007, designed to help people make better sense of news and information. A lot has changed since then, especially given the rise of tablets and mobile computers.
Now, the company is evolving, announcing t... |
| 14.06.2012 | Spun Out Of Evri With $3.5M From Paul Allen, SportStream Brings Its Social Sports Platform To The iPad | The Web is noisier than ever before. Content is being produced en masse, in realtime, making it increasingly difficult to separate the signal from the noise. Evri, the realtime content discovery engine, aims to help you find the signal in t... |
| 11.04.2012 | Wavii Makes Search More Human (Like Google+ Should) | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
He surely didn’t know it at the time. But Adrian Aoun’s godson, who lives in London and just turned 5, has been supplying the Seattle entrepreneur with inspiration for years. ... |
| 10.04.2012 | Wavii exits stealth mode, touts a better way to consume news | It’s been nearly two years since we first encountered Wavii. Operating in the equivalent of a bunker, the Seattle startup has offered just a few clues of the news aggregation service that it is building.
But the company — backed by some of ... |
| 29.02.2012 | Flipboard’s Latest Brings Cover Stories To The iPad, Plus A New French Edition | Flipboard is rolling out the first major update to its social magazine tonight since its December launch on the iPhone. The new release brings the iPhone app’s most popular feature, “Cover Stories,” to the iPad’s bigger screen. Now, iPad us... |
| 24.02.2012 | Evri apologizes after iPad app crashes for first-time users | There’s certainly no shortage of competition when it comes to creating news reader applications for the iPad, from Flipboard to Pulse to Zite. That’s why execution for any would-be entrants needs to be near flawless.
But Seattle startup Evr... |
| 23.01.2012 | Wavii moves toward reality with goal of helping people manage information overload | Wavii, the stealthy Seattle startup led by Adrian Aoun, is getting closer to unveiling a new service that’s designed to help people find the news that matters the most to them.
“Today, most people get their news by searching Google or brows... |
| 11.11.2011 | Meet Wavii: The world’s longest-running stealth startup? | Over the course of the past few weeks, a couple people in the Seattle startup community have independently asked me the same question: Whatever happened to Wavii?
I first discovered the Adrian Aoun-led company back in July of 2010 — writing... |
| 27.09.2011 | Evri Launches Topic Focused Personalized News iPad App | Seattle-based Evri just launched its iPad app, which lets users build their own news experience from millions of topic choices, each with an individual news channel. This unique approach is key to differentiating from the handful of iPad ap... |
| 26.09.2011 | Evri brings topic-based news discovery to the iPad | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
iPad users have yet another news magazine app option with the launch of Evri’s new app on the tablet today, but Evri hopes to stand out... |
| 26.09.2011 | Evri brings topic-based news discovery to the iPad | iPad users have yet another news magazine app option with the launch of Evri’s new app on the tablet today, but Evri hopes to stand out from the pack thanks to its unique topic discovery engine.
Evri says its iPad app is the first to offer ... |
| 26.09.2011 | Evri Comes To iPad With New Topic-Based News Reader | Realtime semantic startup Evri is debuting its brand-new iPad application today, where it joins the crowded “iPad news magazine” space filled with the likes of Flipboard, The Daily, Zite, Pulse, NewsMix, AOL Editions, News360 and others. To... |
| 26.09.2011 | Evri’s new iPad app looks to reinvent the news experience | Applications like Flipboard and Pulse look to transform the way people consume news and information on the iPad. Now, Seattle startup Evri is jumping into the mix with a new iPad app that creates an automated news feed around more than 2.5 ... |
| 07.09.2011 | Evri Launches SportStream Apps To Bring Realtime, Social Sports News To Your Mobile Devices | Evri, the realtime content discovery engine, acquired Radar Networks early last year, incorporating the startup’s semantic indexing technology into its products. The move laid the groundwork for Evri’s shift into the mobile space, as it has... |
| 29.09.2010 | Evri Expands Mobile Offerings Beyond Tech News to Sports, Music, and Celebrity Gossip | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Evri is going mobile in a big way. The Seattle- and San Francisco-based information discovery website backed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital introduced an Android app called Ev... |
| 23.08.2010 | Germany says 'Nein' to Facebook prying | A new proposed law would stop employers from checking out job candidate profiles on Facebook
If you've been worried that comprosing photos of yourself on Facebook may end up in the hands of a potential employer, don't fret.
Well, at least i... |
| 04.07.2010 | Evri’s Evolution From Search to Real-Time News Curation | When semantic recommendations service Evrilaunched two years ago, the product (backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen) was seen by many as a type of search engine. Nowadays, Evri models itself as a topic-based news service; in particular... |
| 14.05.2010 | Evri Shutters Twine, Launches Evri Thing Tech Android App (iPhone Is Next) | Realtime content discovery engine Evri is moving into mobile today with the launch of a tech news reader on Android phones called Everi Thing Tech. It is available in the Android market, and a nearly identical app is awaiting approval for t... |
| 01.04.2010 | Twine CEO to Startups: Be Modest With Your Money | The semantic web is one of the leading trends we track here at ReadWriteWeb, so it was big news to us earlier this month when Evri announced it was acquiring Twine creators Radar Networks. Following the announcement, Twine CEO Nova Spivack ... |
| 22.03.2010 | Inventor of the Web Gets Backing to Build Web of Data | Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and prominent researcher Nigel Shadbolt will lead a new British Institute for Web Science with $45 million in government backing. The announcement was not without its critics, but the Ins... |
| 11.03.2010 | Evri acquires Twine for a semantic search team-up | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Evri, a company using semantic technology to deli... |
| 11.03.2010 | Evri Acquires Radar Networks, Redesigns Semantic Search Website | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Evri, a Web startup focused on semantic search and discovery, announced today it has acquired San Francisco-based Radar Networks, the maker of Twine.com. Financi... |
| 11.03.2010 | Evri acquires Twine for a semantic search team-up | Evri, a company using semantic technology to deliver real-time search results around news, just announced that it has acquired another semantic-focused startup, Radar Networks, and its flagship product Twine.
Evri chief executive Will Hunsi... |
| 11.03.2010 | Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation | After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup. Today, Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networks, along with its core technical team an... |
| 10.03.2010 | Paul Allen Backed Semantic Service Evri Has Been Acquired (Updated) | Think the semantic web is all hype with no bite? Paul Allen backed semantic startup Evri will announce tomorrow that it has been acquired, we’ve learned from a reliable source. The service specializes in extracting the names of people, plac... |
| 10.12.2009 | Top 10 Startup Products of 2009 | There were a ton of great products launched in 2009 by big companies and startups alike, but in this post we focus on the best products released by startups.
The easiest way to become a leading product in your industry is to meet a need bet... |
| 09.12.2009 | Top 10 Real-Time Technologies of 2009 | The real-time web was hot this year and it’s likely to become a standard expectation on sites all around the world next year. We’ve tracked this trend extensively with a face-to-face summit of industry leaders and an 84-page research report... |
| 09.10.2009 | Evri Drives New Hearst Website, Wants to Make News Aggregators Smarter | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The next step in the future of journalism could be led by a Seattle startup. Today, media giant Hearst announced it has started a new website called LMK (Let Me Know), a news ... |
| 09.10.2009 | Hearst Takes A Stab At Semi-Automated Content With LMK | The problem with magazines is that they are so very expensive to produce. All those writers, editors, photographers, and designers cost money. Even original news sites require a lot of resources to run. That is why Hearst is taking a differ... |
| 08.10.2009 | 2 Reasons Why Twitter May Not Be Worth So Much to Google and Microsoft After All | Google and Microsoft are both in talks with Twitter to buy access to the company’s full fire hose of messages and shared links, according to a report this morning from Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. Could these be blockbuster deals that bring ... |
| 01.10.2009 | The Web Has Feelings Too: How Seattle Startups Are Cashing In on Sentiment Analysis | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone (as the old saying goes). Or maybe not. Maybe no one weeps alone anymore, what with Twitter, Facebook, and the l... |
| 30.09.2009 | Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action | The Real-Time Web – it’s more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the ho... |
| 02.09.2009 | Eqentia Launches Semantic Portals – Competes with OpenCalais, Evri | At the SemTech conference in June I met with William Mougayar, founder and CEO of a semantic news platform called Eqentia. At the time the product was in development, but it is officially launching today. In a nutshell, Eqentia aggregates c... |
| 23.08.2009 | 5 Ways Sentiment Analysis is Ramping Up in 2009 | The New York Times has an article today about sentiment analysis, a trend which has been accelerating on the back of the Real-time Web – and Twitter in particular. Sentiment analysis is no short-term hot trend. It will eventually become a k... |
| 14.08.2009 | How Does the Web Feel? Evri’s New Sentiment API Tells You | Semantic search engine Evri can now understand how the web feels with the launch of their new sentiment web API. While busy scouring the net for people, places, and things and determining the relationships between them, the search engine is... |
| 01.06.2009 | The Future of Search and the Intelligent Web, From Vulcan Capital’s Steve Hall | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Search is hot again. Just when you thought Google had everything figured out, along comes Microsoft with its new search engine, Bing. This upstart effort may not supplant the ... |
| 22.05.2009 | The New Vulcan Capital: Steve Hall and Chris Temple on Working with Paul Allen, Investing with Partners, and Banking On Seattle Innovation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It feels like the dawn of a new era at Vulcan Capital. The private investment group, which manages billionaire Paul Allen’s personal and professional holdings, has been very p... |
| 13.05.2009 | Seattle Firms iLike, PopCap, Evri, and Zumobi Partner with Apple—an iPhone Update | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s hard to keep up with the flood of new iPhone applications these days, but a few Seattle-based companies warrant a mention here for their recent news. Especially coming on... |
| 20.04.2009 | Seattle Software Update: AdReady, Azaleos, and Evri Roll Out New Releases | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
All around town, spring is in the air—and so is new software from some prominent local tech startups. In case you missed them while trying to make it through tax week, here ar... |
| 20.03.2009 | Seattle Layoff Update: Amaze Entertainment, Evri Cut Staff | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The carnage continues. At least two area technology companies that we follow at Xconomy have had significant layoffs this week—both at least in part because of the worsening e... |
| 20.03.2009 | Semantic search engine Evri cuts staff by 25 percent | Evri, the search engine that lets you track keyword results across the web, confirmed today that it has cut its staff by 25 percent to better weather the economic downturn. Chief executive Neil Roseman says the Seattle-based company is doin... |
| 18.03.2009 | Evri Teams Up with The Times of London, Helps Online Audience Browse the Web Better | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Internet startup Evri is announcing today that it has formed a partnership with The Times of London, one of the UK’s leading newspapers, to provide content recom... |
| 04.03.2009 | Wine, Startups, and VCs—A Report from DEMO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Late last fall, after discussion with some board members, I decided to apply to show some new features from Evri at DEMO 09, which we were about to start active development on... |
| 02.03.2009 | DEMO Roundup: Doing more with less, a smarter Internet, and more | You’ve probably noticed a flood of news on our front page from DEMO, the conference for tech companies launching products that kicks off today in Palm Desert, Calif. (Under VentureBeat’s new partnership with DEMO, my editor Matt Marshall wi... |
| 02.03.2009 | DEMO Memetracker Faceoff: Evri Vs. Ensembli | At this week’s DEMO conference, two products are launching that are aim to make memetracking easier for everyone. The first one is UK-based Ensembli, which lets users enter any keyword, and it returns articles about that topic. The second i... |
| 02.03.2009 | DEMO Trend: The Smarter Web | Part One of a Two-Part Series
We’re moving beyond the days of a simple search box in which you type a query and get a list of results. Today, companies are trying to build a smarter web – one that understands what things are, how they relat... |
| 27.02.2009 | Evri, Ontier, Kutano to Present at DEMO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Northwest software startups Evri (Seattle), Ontier (Portland, OR), and Kutano (Burnaby, BC) will be presenting at the DEMO technology conference in Palm Desert, CA, March 1-3.... |
| 11.02.2009 | Earth Class Mail and Evri Go Postal, Apptio and Redfin Announce Partners—a Startup Roundup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s been a busy day for announcements. Here’s a quick snapshot of four Seattle-area tech startups, all in different fields, all trying to make their way in the world:
—Apptio... |
| 26.11.2008 | Nine Recommendation Tools We Wish We Had | …And The Best Substitutes We’ve Come Up With So Far
There’s so much content online every day that it’s totally overwhelming. That’s where good recommendation technologies and media outlets come in handy. As a blog that seeks to share the mo... |
| 20.11.2008 | 10 More Semantic Apps to Watch | In November 2007, we listed 10 Semantic apps to watch and yesterday we published an update on what each had achieved over the past year. All of them are still alive and well – a couple are thriving, some are experimenting and a few are stil... |
| 17.11.2008 | How to Start a Company: Advice from Seattle Entrepreneur T.A. McCann | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
On Friday, there was a really good talk by the noted tech entrepreneur and investor T.A. McCann at a Northwest Entrepreneur Network breakfast in Bellevue, WA. The topic was ho... |
| 13.10.2008 | Shadowy government project spins off Siri to help direct your affairs | Conspiracy theorists will love this one: A computerized assistant that can help you manage your day to day life, built atop an artificial intelligence platform developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the United S... |
| 27.09.2008 | Paul Allen's Evri whips up a semantic widget | Evri, a Seattle-based semantic-Web project backed by Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital, has thrown open the doors on its beta site and on Evri's Garden, a sandbox for researchers and interested bystanders.
Formerly known as Hypertext Solutions, E... |
| 24.09.2008 | Evri Unleashes An Open Beta, But Falls Short On Results | Evri, a site that uses semantic searching to help users discover more Web content in the shortest amount of time, has added a number of new product features today to mark its open beta.
The site now features a content recommendation engine ... |
| 25.07.2008 | Led by Neil Roseman, Evri Wants to Understand Content of Every Web Page (and Connections Between Them) | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
First of all, please don’t call it a search company. Not even a “semantic” search company (one that uses natural-language processing of text), which is what its technology is ... |
| 18.07.2008 | WTIA’s Summer Social: Busy Times, Hating Starbucks, and an Offer I Can’t Refuse | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
“The only tall blonde women in Seattle are recruiters.” This and other astute observations from Aviel Ginzburg—by day, a mild-mannered developer at Seattle-based Appature, and... |
| 28.06.2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 23-27 June 2008 | Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reported on Nokia’s buyout of the open source mobile OS Symbian, reviewed a “memory augmentation” service and a semantic search engine, ... |
| 24.06.2008 | Evri Beta Launches: Search Less – Understand More | Evri, a Paul Allen backed semantic search engine, is launching into a limited beta tonight. Evri was first shown publicly at the D6 conference. Evri’s CEO Neil Roseman likes to talk about Evri in terms of organizing content instead of calli... |
| 24.06.2008 | Evri Launches Semantic Content Discovery Engine In Private Beta | Evri, the site that uses semantic connections between terms to help users discover related information, has launched in private beta. You can register for an invite here.
Evri founder Neil Roseman (former VP of Technology at Amazon) is quic... |
| 22.05.2008 | SemTech Panel: Investor Opportunities and Pitfalls | What sort of funding opportunities exist in the budding Semantic Web space? What are VCs looking for and how much are they will to invest? That was the topic of a panel at the SemTech 2008 Conference that just concluded in San Jose.
The pan... |
