Powerset News

Written by Richard MacManus / July 5, 2008 5:00 AM / It's time to review the week that was on ReadWriteWeb.

An excerpt from another Powerset article: Microsoft picks up an impressive team of technologists with Powerset - perhaps the acquisition's most valuable asset: Barney Pell, co-founder and CTO, worked for NASA ...

Products:- In our story on Microsft boss Bill Gates' departure, we quote 24/7 Wall Street as saying one of the aims of his successor, Steve Ballmer, is to "ramp up his internet group and search business ". With ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy Powerset, a start-up that is working on a new class of Web search that relies on insights from linguistics rather than simple ...

Link: Microsoft Shoots and Scores with Powerset Purchase . I've been highly critical of many of Microsoft's moves lately, mostly because they have felt like the awkward ramblings of a company one step behind ...

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I spoke with Powerset cofounder/CEO Barney Pell and Microsoft's Live Search General Program Manager Ramez Naam shortly after Microsoft's announcement of their acquisition of Powerset earlier today.

A day after Yahoo tried to spin investors that Microsoft may not have been "serious" about acquiring the online portal, the software giant reportedly is in talks with potential allies - including two of the ...

Insights and headlines from Shore analysts on trends in enterprise and media content markets.

If you haven't used Powerset - give it a shot - I think it's a fantastic tool, although I am biased given that I both know the founders and understand the technology behind it.

Microsoft is continuing its rounds of the software singles scene after Yahoo!'s rejection of its overtures.

A report has set off a ripple across the Internet that Microsoft is set to announce it is buying semantic-search engine provider Powerset .

Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 26, 2008 3:35 PM / Venturebeat reports that Microsoft might be close to acquiring the San Francisco based semantic search engine Powerset for about $100 Million.

Venture Beat reports that PowerSet just got purchased by Microsoft for $100M: Powerset, of San Francisco, has developed a technology that attempts to understand the full meanings of phrases you type in while ...

At a birthday party for game developer David "Talin" Joiner hosted by former Powerset CEO Barney Pell , the guest of honor provided guests with $5,000 to spend any way they collectively wished.

We have a hard time picking a loser in the contest for world's worst search-engine startup: Powerset, where the founders' love triangle proved far more interesting than its technology, or Wikia Search , Jimmy ...

J. Nicholas Hoover writing in the May 19, 2008 print issue of Information Week states: Powerset launched a tool to search Wikipedia and open source database Freebase Monday, but the technology that powers the ...

A new search and "discovery" engine has been recently unveiled and made accessible to everyone online.

Powerset CTO Barney Pell joins regular members of the Semantic Web Gang to share some of Powerset's experiences on the week since the launch of their public beta .

An article in SearchEngineLand points out that Powerset is reaching higher than for mere "natural language." Techcrunch has more details and analysis .