February 5th, 2013

Expect Labs Teams Up With Factual To Bring Better Location Data To Its Anticipatory Computing Engine

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Expect Labs has been on a bit of a tear lately — within the past six months the San Francisco-based startup showed off its fan-favorite app at Disrupt SF 2012, scored itself $2.4 million in funding from some big names, and inked a deal with the voice recognition mavens at Nuance. Now Expect Labs has tapped big data startup Factual Inc. and its sizable store of location data in a bid to make its… → Read More

October 7th, 2012

In A Keyboard-Free Future, What Happens To All The Writers?

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I wrote this post with my voice. I made no changes, save for a few typo corrections, and used no keyboard. That’s probably why it’s so bad.

It’s an experiment of mine. The hypothesis is whether or not a keyboardless world will change writing. And make no mistake, at some point we will live in a keyboardless world. → Read More

October 4th, 2012

Disrupt Battlefield Finalist Expect Labs Locks Up $2.4M In Funding For Its Real-Time Conversation Analyzer

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Well, it looks like Tim Tuttle is doing pretty well for himself. His last company, the video search platform Truveo, was acquired by AOL in early 2006 for an undisclosed (but reportedly hefty) sum, and now his latest venture has just gotten a considerable financial shot in the arm.

Expect Labs, a TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield startup that Tuttle co-founded with Moninder Jheeta, announced… → Read More

September 11th, 2012

Expect Labs’ MindMeld iPad App Understands Your Conversations In Real Time

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We’ve all been there before. You’re on a phone call or video chat when someone brings up a topic you’re unfamiliar with. What are your options? You either lie about knowing what the other person is talking about or you scramble to Google or Wikipedia and search on whatever the topic might be. It happens all the time.

Wouldn’t it be easier if there were a piece of software that could analyze… → Read More