Radar Networks
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Radar Networks |
| logo | radar networks logo.png |
| type | Private |
| foundation | 2003 |
| founder | Nova Spivack, Kristinn R. Thórisson |
| location_city | San Francisco, California |
| location_country | USA |
| key_people | Nova Spivack, CEO; Sonja Erickson, VP, Systems Engineering; Christopher Jones, VP of Product Development; Jim Wissner, Chief Architect |
| industry | Data management |
| num_employees | 20 |
| homepage | www.radarnetworks.com |
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| name = Radar Networks | logo = radar networks logo.png | type = Private | foundation = 2003 | founder = Nova Spivack, Kristinn R. Thórisson | location_city = San Francisco, California | location_country = USA | location = | key_people = Nova Spivack, CEO; Sonja Erickson, VP, Systems Engineering; Christopher Jones, VP of Product Development; Jim Wissner, Chief Architect | industry = Data management | products = | num_employees = 20 | homepage = www.radarnetworks.com
Radar Networks was a San Francisco–based company that aimed to develop Semantic Web applications for the general public.{{cite web | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/business/12web.html?ex=1320987600&en=254d697964cedc62&ei=5088 | title = Entrepreneurs See Web Guided By Common Sense | accessdate = 2007-08-14 | author = John Markoff | date = 2006-11-12 | work = New York Times
Radar Networks was acquired by Evri Inc. in 2010, which soon shut it down.
History
The company was founded in 2003 by web entrepreneur Nova Spivack, grandson of Peter Drucker, and AI researcher Kristinn R. Thórisson. They were soon joined by Jim Wissner, who became the company's chief architect. Thórisson was CTO of Radar Networks until 2004 when he joined Reykjavik University.
In February 2008 the company raised a Series B venture round led by Velocity Interactive Group, Vulcan Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
The company's only product, Twine, was an online, social web service that was opened to the public on October 21, 2008.{{cite web | url = http://www.technologyreview.com/web/21583/?a=f | title = Untangling Web Information | accessdate = 2008-10-21 | author = Erica Naone | date = 2008-09-21 | work = Technology Review
On March 11, 2010, Radar Networks was acquired by Seattle-based Evri Inc.{{cite press release |url = http://corporate.evri.com/2010/03/evri-announces-acquisition-of-twine-relaunches-consumer-site/ |title = Evri Announces Acquisition of Twine, Relaunches Consumer Site |accessdate = 24 October 2024 |author = Evri Inc. |date = 11 March 2010 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110710210351/http://corporate.evri.com/2010/03/evri-announces-acquisition-of-twine-relaunches-consumer-site/ |archivedate = 10 July 2011 |df =
References
References
- Cook, John. (5 October 2012). "Paul Allen-backed news aggregator Evri calls it quits". [[GeekWire]].
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