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AlphaSense, an analysis and business intel search engine, finds $225M at a $1.7B valuation
Google showed the way when it came to the world understanding and valuing the importance of a good search engine to unlock all the information you could find on the…
AlphaSense, a search engine for analysis and business intel, raises $50M led by Innovation Endeavors
Google and its flagship search portal opened the door to the possibilities of how to build a business empire on the back of organising and navigating the world’s information, as…
Alexa gets access to Wolfram Alpha’s knowledge engine
Knowledge base is one of the departments where Alexa has lagged Assistant. After all, it’s pretty tough to compete with Google when it comes to a sheer breadth of knowledge.…
Wolfram Alpha Launches Problem Generator To Help Students Learn Math
If you’re studying math or science, you are probably pretty familiar with Wolfram Alpha as a tool for figuring out complicated equations. That makes it a pretty good tool for…
Wolfram Alpha Makes CrunchBase Data Computable Just In Time For Disrupt SF
Wolfram Alpha just announced a useful new feature if you plan to follow Disrupt San Francisco closely. It has added CrunchBase data to its computational engine. You can now learn…
Wolfram Alpha Launches Personal Analytics Reports For Facebook
Wolfram Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine” that quietly handles a large number of queries from Apple’s Siri, launched a new feature today that allows you to quickly get an overview…
Wolfram Alpha Launches Its First Desktop App
Wolfram Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine,” just launched a desktop app for Windows 7 PCs through Intel’s AppUp store. After launching numerous iOS and Android apps (including for the B&N…
If Music Be Thy Dream Of Filthy Lucre, Press Stop
I always enjoy seeing science fiction prophecies come true. Last month, Broadcastr. This month, Wolfram Alpha’s WolframTones, modestly subtitled “A New Kind Of Music.” (Yes, that would be the same…
If Search Engines Played Jeopardy, Which One Would Win?
The recent victory of IBM’s Watson computer against human competitors in an exhibition round of Jeopardy got computer scientist Stephen Wolfram thinking about how regular search engines might fare in…
WolframAlpha's Android App Now Available
Computational search engine Wolfram Alpha is debuting its Android App in the Android Market today, simultaneously launching with the new T-Mobile G2 Android phone. Similar to the iPhone app, WolframAlpha…
Wolfram Alpha Still Trying To Justify That $50 iPhone App With New Virtual Keyboards
In October, computational engine Wolfram Alpha launched a slick iPhone app. The only problem? They miscalculated what it should cost. The app is great and all, but it’s simply not…
Factual Raises $1 Million Seed Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab, And Angels
If you co-founded the company that became Google AdSense, as Gil Elbaz did with Applied Semantics, you don’t have any problem finding investors when you want to start a new…
Wolfram Alpha Does The Math, Slashes iPhone App Price (Sort Of)
There’s a lot to love about Wolfram Alpha’s iPhone app. But as regular readers will know, one of them is not the price. At $50, it’s just way too hard…
Nice Try, Wolfram Alpha. Still Not Paying $50 For Your App.
A couple months ago, Wolfram Alpha launched an impressive iPhone application based on their “computational knowledge engine” (a fancy word for search engine predicated on math) of the same name.…
Wolfram Alpha Results Finally Show Up In Bing
Ever since Microsoft launched its Bing search engine last May, there’s been buzz that it’s been talking with Wolfram Alpha to license some of its search data. In August, I…
Wolfram Alpha Miscalculates What Its iPhone App Should Cost
Apple wasted little time approving Wolfram Alpha’s new iPhone app, which we hinted at last week. Just a few days after they submitted it to the store, Apple sailed it…
Post-Hype, Wolfram Alpha Turns On Its API And Preps An iPhone App
While Wolfram Alpha, the website, has so far failed to capture the imagination of the public in a meaningful way, the core idea has always been about the data. And…
Google Squared Gets Better, But It Still Can't Find Mars
A few months ago, Google launched an experimental new search project, called Google Squared, that literally tries to take all the messy, unstructured information on the Web and put it…
What Wolfram Alpha Really Did This Summer: Struck A Deal With Bing.
Computer scientist Stephen Wolfram gave a report today listing what the team at Wolfram Alpha, his new search engine, did this summer. They added new knowledge domains and over 2…
Bing Versus Wolfram Alpha: A Tale Of Two Search Engine Launches
In the past month, we’ve seen some new search engine launches. Two in particular were able to generate a hype cycle of early positive reviews and excitement: Bing and Wolfram…
Google Squared Goes Live, Puts Web Search Into A Spreadsheet
Google is taking a step towards taking all the messy, unstructured information on the Web and putting it into neat little, labeled boxes. Literally, that is what Google Squared does.…
Putting Wolfram Alpha To The Test: Not Super-Impressed (But Here Are 50 Invites)
Wolfram Alpha is an early primitive. The new search engine that everybody is gushing over and that even Sergey Brin is keeping an eye on, is set to launch on…
What Is Google Squared? It Is How Google Will Crush Wolfram Alpha (Exclusive Video)
One of the next frontiers of search is taking all of the unstructured data spread helter-skelter across the Web and treat it like it is sitting in a nice, structured…
The Wolfram Alpha Demo Returns, This Time With Actual Footage Of The Service
Yesterday, days of hype culminated in the unveiling of the Wolfram Alpha search engine, which made its debut at a presentation put on by Harvard University’s Berkman Center. Unfortunately the…
Harvard Posts The Wolfram Alpha Preview Video — Without A Single Shot Of The Service
There’s a lot of buzz swirling about Wolfram Alpha, the new computational search engine — perhaps too much. But regardless, people want to see the service in action to decide…
After Being Upstaged By Google, Wolfram Alpha Fires Back With A Leaked Screenshot
Today was supposed to be a big coming out party for stealthy search engine Wolfram Alpha. Computer scientist Stephen Wolfram gave the first public demonstration of his knowledge mining search…
Wolfram Alpha Getting A Public Preview On Tuesday
When it was first unveiled in March, Wolfram Alpha, a new type of search engine created by computer scientist Stephen Wolfram, got a lot of buzz. Naturally, some people threw…
Wolfram Alpha Computes Answers To Factual Questions. This Is Going To Be Big.
Editor’s note: Below is a guest post from Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, about a new computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha being developed by computer scientist Stephen Wolfram.…