November 21th evening news, eBay announced that it has acquired a smart recommendation engine-Hunch.
Hunch was established in 2009, according to the user’s personal preferences recommended personalized products. Hunch’s patented prediction technology taste graph can make use of a variety of online information describing the user’s preferences, and predict its possible preference products, services, people, sites, or any other content, and recommend personalized theme for them.
eBay CTO and senior vice president Mark Carges said: “We are using an innovative way to interact with consumers, and attract top technology to shape the future of business. With Hunch, we will add new functions, for personal preferences and interests to eBay’s personalized shopping experience. And we look forward to Hunch technology can bring benefit for shoppers browse and purchase merchandise on eBay, while provide a new way to the seller then help them sell the right goods to the right people. ”
eBay isn’t disclose the acquisition amount of Hunch, but according to U.S. technology blog TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington revealed that the acquisition about $80 million.
News of November 16th, Thomson Reuters released a report, named the world’s 100 most innovative companies. In this list, including 40 U.S. companies, 31 companies in Asia, 29 from Europe. Although the number of China patent applications is the leader in global, due to lack of patent quality and influence, without a Chinese company on the list.
Thomson Reuters said, whether in companies or countries, innovation have become the cornerstone of success to economic growth. Although the number of invention patents is an important indicator to measure innovation, the significance of innovation is far more than the number of patent applications. The selection of the world’s 100 most innovative companies, the main evaluation criteria with four areas, including the success rate of patent applications, patent applications worldwide, the influence of patents and innovation patents.
The report notes that not all applications are approved, the cost of enterprise apply for patent is very expensive. In the four global market, the U.S., China, Europe, Japan, how to protect their own inventions, it’s also a measure of corporate emphasis on intellectual property rights one of the indicators. In addition, the frequency of other companies cited the patent and the first to submit a new technology, new drugs, new services and other patent application also smoothly an important criterion for selection.
November 8th morning news, according to media reports, hewlett-packard was considering to sell
webOS business, price is expected to reach hundreds of millions dollars, but it may be below
$1.2 billion of the acquisition Palm in 2010.
People familiar with the matter said, hewlett-packard has hired bank of America merrill
lynch for them to provide consulting services. There’re many technology firms expressed that
they are intending to purchase the webOS, perhaps oracle is one of them.
webOS is obtained by HP buying Palm business last year. But since HP gave up the TouchPad
tablet computer based on webOS due to the poor sales, the prospects of this business has
been dubious. HP was refused to comment it.
