Overwolf, the in-game app-development toolkit and marketplace, has acquired Twitch’s CurseForge assets to provide a marketplace for modifications to complement its app development business. Sinc
In a chat with Guy Kawasaki at South by Southwest, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales spoke out about self-interested parties editing their own pages on the Internet’s collaborative encyclopedia. “C
Wikia, the user-generated publishing site started by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is today announcing a $15 million round of funding to crack into Japan and other Asian markets. As with Wikia's prev
User generated content company Wikia is breaking the news of its raise of over $10.8 million in Series C funding today in a press release soon to be sent out to tech media. The financing was led by In
You may not be familiar with <a href="http://www.wikia.com/Wikia">Wikia</a>, but the collaborative media company has been quietly growing into a giant, <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/12/wikia
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/cp_1265613401_3895v3-max-250x250-215x54.png" width="215" height="54" /><a href="http://www.wikia.com">Wikia</a>, a for-profit group of user ge
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Are normal people finally starting to warm to wikis as publishing tools? <a href="http://w
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/wikianswers-215x53.png" width="215" height="53" />When <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jimmy-wales">Jimmy Wales</a> & co earlier
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It is going to take more than just an open search platform to take on Google. Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wal
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Here's a question for you. How many Q&A sites does the Web really need? Already, there is <a href="http://an
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This has been a brutal month or so for tech layoffs. According to our <a href="https://techcrunch.com/layoffs/">Layo
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<strong>Update</strong>: Wikia has confirmed that about 10 percent of its workers have been laid off, but point
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Jimmy Wales is opening up the <a href="http://re.search.wikia.com/index.html">Wikia Search</a> engine to anyone w
Wikia Search, the human edited search engine which we trashed at launch, continues to make incremental improvements (and thankfully they’ve turned down the “This is a Google-killer”
Wikia Search is finally ready to play with. Jimmy Wales admits that up until now his company’s project to apply the wiki concept to search: Pretty much sucked. It has not been usable on a day to
As Google gets into the wiki space with Google Sites (the relaunch of Jotspot), all the other little wiki startups out there will need to keep one step ahead. Those includes Wikia, Socialtext, Wetpain
Wikimedia Foundation posted their audited 2007 financial statements (I’ve embedded the document below) last week. Their fiscal year actually ends June 30, so these are already almost eight month
The organizers of the DLD conference in Munich put on a great show today. One of the more lively sessions was called “Humans Disrupting Algorithms” and featured Wikipedia/Wikia Search̵
Many of us have waited a year as the Jimmy Wales hype machine promised a human powered search engine that could take on Google. Tonight that search engine launched at alpha.search.wikia.com, and it ma
The long wait for Wikia Search is over with the alpha version of the service now live. As we wrote December 23, Wikia’s Jimmy Wales is pitching the search engine as a Google competitor; its a st
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