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Seven Questions for Splunk CEO Godfrey Sullivan

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 19, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Machines of every kind — from Web servers to thermostats — generate data that can be useful in ways that are hard to imagine until you start looking at it. Software start-up Splunk makes that process easy.

Pixazza Changes Name to Luminate, Launches Image Apps Platform

Kara Swisher in Media on July 27, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Pixazza is dead. Long live Luminate.

Video: Pixazza's Bob Lisbonne Talks About "AdSense for Images"

Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT

Recently, BoomTown took a walk down digital Memory Lane with Bob Lisbonne, CEO of Pixazza, the photo-tagging service that has nicknamed itself “AdSense for images.” That’s because Lisbonne used to be a big wheel at Netscape Communications. We talked about the old days, of course, but more about the new days and his business focused on putting all kinds of advertising within online images.

StumbleUpon's Second Wind Continues as It Raises $17M

Liz Gannes in Social on March 9, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

StumbleUpon, the content discovery service, has raised $17 million in new funding, according to sources close to the company.

Bubbli, Push Pop Press and Bluefin a Hit at TED

Liz Gannes in Social on March 3, 2011 at 1:00 am PT

Some of the biggest hits and touchpoints so far at this year’s annual TED conference have come from tech start-up founders’ talks and show-stealing demos. Here are three companies you’ll likely be hearing about again.

Will Car-Sharing Among Strangers Catch On?

Tomio Geron, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 15, 2010 at 11:14 am PT

Would you lend your car to a stranger? A new start-up, RelayRides Inc., hopes to encourage people to rent their wheels to others, the same way sites like Airbnb Inc. have popularized the notion of people renting out their homes.

Memolane Makes Web Memories Last

Liz Gannes in Social on November 22, 2010 at 11:20 am PT

The best-designed site I’ve seen to help create digital scrapbooks is named Memolane, and it calls them “web time machines.” If you want to try Memolane out, the Copenhagen-based company is doing its first public release of beta invites today.

Gravity Wants to Instantly Personalize Any Content Site

Liz Gannes in Social on November 16, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

Gravity today is unveiling its plans to be an information filtering service. The idea is to combine social and semantic understanding of users to identify content they are likely to be interested in.