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Amazon Picks Up Social Expertise Through Talent Acquisition

in Commerce on December 27, 2011 at 5:07 pm PT

Amazon has not been on the forefront of social shopping experiences, but that could change. Geekwire reports that the e-commerce giant has hired several team members from Quorus, a small Seattle start-up focused on building social shopping and marketing technologies for retailers and brands. Quorus co-founders Logan Bowers, who was previously at Zillow and Expedia, and Michael Dougherty, formerly co-founder of Redfin, have been hired along with other employees. An Amazon spokesperson has not replied to an email seeking comment.

Talent War Crunches Start-Ups

in News on February 28, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Internet start-ups across Silicon Valley are struggling to compete for talent amid the investment frenzy gripping Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Zynga Inc., with many smaller companies beefing up pay and recruiting and wading into the private-company share market to keep pace with their larger rivals.

Open House? Google Has Also Been Eying Trulia in Real Estate Search Play.

in News on December 18, 2009 at 4:51 pm PT

According to sources close to the situation, along with its pending bid for Yelp, Google has been in on-again, off-again acquisition talks with Trulia, the real estate search engine. It is unclear what price Google would pay, but sources estimate that Trulia’s valuation ranges between $150 million and $200 million, although there could be a big premium on that. Rumors about Google’s interest in the real estate search market–and specifically in Trulia–have been rebounding around Silicon Valley for the last year as the search giant focuses on the local arena.
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