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| 18.05.2025 | Bridging the Gap: How Technology and Talent Can Tackle Global Challenges | In a world where hunger and humanitarian crises loom large, technology stands as a beacon of hope. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and skilled developers are the new architects of change. They build bridges over the chasms of poverty and ineff... |
| 17.05.2025 | Valuable Talent: Serhii Savchenko Stands Out in Global Tech Skills Crisis | Share
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From web optimization to humanitarian platforms – a developer’s journey revolutionizing social impact analytics
In 2025, measuring the impact of social and communication campaigns has become more critical than ... |
| 28.05.2024 | GRAVITY and Flam Raise Funds in Pre-Series A Round The Indian startups listed below have disclosed investment rounds. | - |
| 22.09.2015 | Filter.ly Helps Publishers Cut Through Internet Noise | Tired of wading through clickbait? Filter.ly, launching today at Disrupt Battlefield, wants to make sure that website visitors only see the content they are most interested in. Many recommendation engines put the most weight on keywords or ... |
| 18.05.2015 | Search giant Baidu invests in content recommender Taboola for Chinese expansion | 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!
Content recommendation engine Taboola is today an... |
| 18.05.2015 | Search giant Baidu invests in content recommender Taboola for Chinese expansion | Content recommendation engine Taboola is today announcing a multi-million dollar investment from Chinese search giant Baidu to bring its content discovery to that market.
Taboola CEO and founder Adam Singolda, who told me that the new strat... |
| 26.02.2014 | Gravity’s Amit Kapur Says Personalization Is Going To “Explode” This Year | Following AOL’s acquisition of content personalization startup Gravity last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur stopped by the AOL office in Manhattan to discuss where personalization technology goes from here.
When Gravity was founded fou... |
| 23.01.2014 | With $90M Gravity acquisition, AOL adds new personalization tools to its publishing war chest | 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!
When AOL decides a startup or service is invaluab... |
| 23.01.2014 | Setting Its Sights On Content Personalization, AOL To Acquire Gravity For $90.7M | AOL is announcing that it has reached a deal to acquire content personalization startup Gravity for an initial $83 million, with another $7.7 million paid out over the next two years.
Gravity works with online publishers and brands to tailo... |
| 01.02.2013 | Gravity Fully Launches Its Content Personalization Tools, Making Them Available To Any Publisher | A little more than three years after the company was first announced, personalization startup Gravity is doing a big launch today, opening up its suite of APIs so that they’re available to any publisher who wants to use them.
Founded by a t... |
| 29.11.2012 | Content Optimization Platform Parse.ly Scores Biggest Customer Yet With Reuters; Now On Track For Profitability By Q1 2013 | Parse.ly, the content optimization platform for publishers which emerged from stealth in January has been flying under the radar when it comes to press, but has growing the size of its customer base over the past year. The company recently ... |
| 02.10.2012 |
Gravity Gets $10.6M More For Real Time Personalization
| Santa Monica startup, Gravity--headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--announced this morning that it has raised $10.6M in a Series B financing round for its personalization technology. The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also include... |
| 02.10.2012 | Gravity pulls in investors, gets $10.6M for content personalization tech | 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!
Gravity is inescapable, especially if we’re talki... |
| 02.10.2012 | Gravity Raises $10.6M For Content Personalization And Marketing, Round Led by GRP Partners | Gravity, the content personalization startup founded by a team of former Myspace executives, just announced that it has raised $10.6 million in Series B funding.
When Gravity launched in 2009, it offered some content recommendation products... |
| 06.07.2012 | Sony’s $380 Million Gaikai Acquisition Shows LA’s Technical Talent | Editor’s note: Nate Redmond is the Managing Partner of Rustic Canyon Partners. The firm was an early investor in cloud-based gaming platform Gaikai, leading its second round and participating alongside NEA and Benchmark in a subsequent one.... |
| 13.03.2012 | Gravity Announces Labs and Open Source Projects | Gravity, a company that provides “interest graphs” based on content visited by users has announced Gravity Labs.
Gravity Labs is, as CTO Jim Benedetto puts it, “an initial peek into our underlying interest graph infrastructure as well as a ... |
| 03.03.2011 | The Age Of Relevance | Editor’s note: This is a guest post submitted by Mahendra Palsule, who has worked as an Editor at Techmeme since 2009. Apart from curating tech news, he likes analyzing trends in startups and the social web. He is based in Pune, India, and ... |
| 17.02.2011 | Levchin and Gurley Say That Next Big Company Will Capture The Interest Graph | Yesterday, at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Googler and PayPal founder Max Levchin and Benchmark GP Bill Gurley discussed “game-changing technology” and the future of the Web. Emblematic of today’s m... |
| 16.11.2010 | Former MySpace execs launch Gravity to personalize the Web | A team of former MySpace executives is launching a new company on-stage at the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco. Chief executive Amit Kapur said he left MySpace, the troubled News Corp. Internet portal, because his new company Gravity ... |
| 16.11.2010 | The Future Will Be Personalized | When my partners and I joined MySpace, we were lucky enough to be at the leading edge of the social revolution that changed how we use the Internet. A new groundswell is coming, transforming the web once again: the personal revolution.
Info... |
| 16.11.2010 | Twinterest: Gravity Analyzes Your Twitter Stream Tells You What You Love | A few weeks ago we hinted at some of the personalization tools that Los Angeles based startup Gravity would be unveiling. Today they’re launching Twinterest – a tool that creates an interest graph – a list of things you probably love – base... |
| 13.10.2010 | Gravity Regroups For Round Two: The Personalization War | Gravity, founded by ex-MySpace execs, first launched into private beta last December.
“At a high level Gravity is an evolution on forums,” I wrote when they launched. But the core of what makes Gravity special was the technology to track th... |
| 29.03.2010 | Former MySpace Exec Teams With Yahoo Rock Star For New Startup | MySpace’s former GM International Travis Katz left the company shortly after the big executive shakeout in the Spring of 2009.
He spent a few months in Hawaii recharging, and then moved his family to Silicon Valley. Since January he’s been ... |
| 25.03.2010 | Gravity: New Form of Fun for Groups or a Dinosaur at Launch? | High-profile startup Gravity launched its group conversation website to the public tonight. Founded by three former MySpace executives – Amit Kapur, Steve Pearman, and Jim Benedetto – and backed by Redpoint Ventures and August Capital, Grav... |
| 12.03.2010 | MySpace's Mid Level Management Structure Is Crumbling | The problem with all of these people who are walking out the door at MySpace isn’t so much the number of them, because MySpace is trying to replace them by hiring more people. It’s the fact that the best people are leaving, and taking a lot... |
| 09.03.2010 | More Talent Walks Out The Door At MySpace: Three Key Employees Go To Gravity | More bad news for an already bullet-riddled MySpace: three key employees have left the company to join Gravity, a cross-town startup founded by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur, SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto.
We covered Gravity’s lau... |
| 16.12.2009 | Exclusive: Ex-MySpace Execs Launch Gravity Into Private Beta | Back in March 2009 a trio of MySpace execs -COO Amit Kapur, SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto – left to begin working on a new startup.
In May we learned that the company, then called Blue Rover Labs, had raised $10 million in funding... |
