Bits Blog: EBay's Plans for Hunch: Recommendations Galore

Technology (Nov 21 2011)

1. EBay has been adding new technologies to its arsenal lately in an effort to overhaul its retail identity and better compete with rivals like Amazon. Included in the company’s recent acquisitions are RedLaser, a bar-code scanning application; Milo, a price comparison tool; and GSI Commerce, a provider of online services that will help the company work with larger retailers. On Monday, the company announced the latest step in its strategy: the acquisition of Hunch, an online recommendation start-up based in New York. Hunch creates a profile of what it thinks a person will like based on information about that person’s friends and activity from around the Web. (Read Full Article)

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