| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.05.2016 | OMG! Facebook is more popular than the Bible | Originally Published by:
Facebook is in the news again this week, this time over accusations from former staffers that it routinely suppressed news stories that would be of interest to conservatives.
Many people, particularly conservatives,... |
| 04.12.2014 | Connexity (Formerly Shopzilla) Buys Become.com To Grow Its Price Comparison Business | Some consolidation in the world of e-commerce site aggregation and marketing. Connexity, the price comparison shopping and marketing technology company that rebranded from Shopzilla earlier this year, has acquired Become.com. The announceme... |
| 11.07.2013 | Shopzilla Acquires Zappli, An M-Commerce Startup Behind A Fast, 2-Click Mobile Checkout Technology | Shopzilla Inc., the home to several online shopping brands including Bizrate, Beso, Shopzilla, Retrevo, TaDa, and others, as well as an affiliate network, has acquired Zappli, an early stage startup which had developed a mobile shopping app... |
| 22.04.2013 | Electronics recycling rises sharply, survey finds | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Recycling is as American as apple pie. But is it as American as Apple Inc.? Maybe so: Electronics recycling has sharply risen in the pa... |
| 16.01.2012 | 8 CES tech trends that will change your life | We're just back from the consumer electronics extravaganza in Las Vegas where we saw some amazing new gadgets and gear including new TVs, tablets, smartphones and new high tech automobiles.
Much of the technology we saw may not be availabl... |
| 12.01.2012 | Next, Digital Mall Kiosks Will Look at You, Guess Your Age, Show You Clothes | One of the most influential retail technologies of the last quarter-century has been digital signage – the use of video to show crisp, bright full-motion advertising, more recently incorporating multitouch interaction. At the National Retai... |
| 16.12.2011 | 100 tablets to choose from, and you can name just one -- iPad | The year 2011 will go down in the history books as a great year for tablets mostly for Apples iPad, however -- not all tablet vendors fared as well as Apple. It's not for lack of products that prevented Android tablets from taking any mar... |
| 23.11.2011 | Some Black Friday deals are duds | Editor: Earlier today Retrevo offered a list of Black Friday deals. But we think many BetaNews readers will be just as interested in the duds and perhaps benefit more. You want to take this holiday, not get taken, right? Please add your own... |
| 18.11.2011 | Tablets take top spots on holiday wish lists | What are bargain hunters going to be looking for this coming Black Friday and what’s on everyone’s holiday gift wish list? The latest Retrevo Pulse Study asked consumers about what they want for the holidays and what they’re going to be loo... |
| 14.11.2011 | New Kindle Fire a hit among developers, says new survey | Low price tag on Amazon's soon-to-be-released Kindle Fire a big draw for developers and consumers
North-American developers are crazy about the Kindle Fire, according to a survey conducted by app framework company, Appcelerator. The soon to... |
| 10.11.2011 | Kindle Fire may be hotter than iPad 2 this holiday season | It looks like this will be a very good holiday season for tablet computers with only 31 percent of respondents to our newest Plus Study saying they are not interested in a tablet. Out of the remaining 69 percent who are interested in buying... |
| 09.11.2011 | Surprising number of consumers could buy the Kindle Fire instead of the iPad 2 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Tablets in all shapes, sizes and price ranges will greet shoppers this holiday season. The iPad currently reigns supreme, but can a mor... |
| 09.11.2011 | Surprising number of consumers could buy the Kindle Fire instead of the iPad 2 | Tablets in all shapes, sizes and price ranges will greet shoppers this holiday season. The iPad currently reigns supreme, but can a more moderately priced, smaller device like the Kindle Fire win over gift-buying consumers?
Absolutely, says... |
| 13.10.2011 | iPhone 4S desired by iPhone 4 users as much as 3G/3GS owners, says study | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
iPhone 4 owners are just as interested in upgrading to Apple’s new iPhone 4S as owners of the older iPhone 3G and 3GS, according to a s... |
| 13.10.2011 | iPhone 4S desired by iPhone 4 users as much as 3G/3GS owners, says study | iPhone 4 owners are just as interested in upgrading to Apple’s new iPhone 4S as owners of the older iPhone 3G and 3GS, according to a study by gadget shopping help site Retrevo.
44 percent of iPhone 3G and 3GS users said they would upgrade ... |
| 31.08.2011 | Decide’s Hunt for New-Gadget Rumors Points to the Future of Smarter Search | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Oren Etzioni is getting a little impatient. More than dozen years after Google emerged from Stanford and set up shop in a California garage, the University of Washington profe... |
| 27.07.2011 | Consumers Want An Inexpensive Amazon Tablet | No matter how much chatter surrounds the rumored Android-based Amazon tablet, the company won’t reveal any details. But according to Retrevo, Amazon leads the pack among manufacturers, excluding Apple, from whom potential customers would “s... |
| 13.07.2011 | Apple Acquires iPhone4.com And WhiteiPhone.com Domain Names | In our ongoing quest to keep track of which domain names Apple owns – and doesn’t own – we picked this up over at Fusible: the Cupertino tech giant has apparently acquired the domains iPhone4.com and WhiteiPhone.com quite recently.
Both dom... |
| 13.07.2011 | 34% Of iPhone Owners Think Their Phone Is 4G | A Retrevo survey found that 34% of iPhone owners think the “4” in iPhone 4 stands for 4G. Admittedly, they could have been fooled by the previous 3G moniker, but still…
Twenty-four percent of Blackberry owners think their phone is 4G (which... |
| 20.06.2011 | Decide Opens Shopping Site | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Decide.com, a gadget-shopping site co-founded by University of Washington professor Oren Etzioni, is opening its doors to the public. Decide’s consumer pitch is taking the reg... |
| 17.03.2011 | Why Retrevo thinks it can outsell Amazon.com | Watch out, Amazon.com: Someone’s trying to bump your shopping cart.
Consumer-electronics review site Retrevo today launched a marketplace that combines e-commerce and research for tech shopping. It’s aiming to simplify shopping for electron... |
| 17.11.2010 | Black Friday Study: iPad Tops Holiday Tech Wish List | Black Friday sales are already all over the place online, particularly for those shiny new tech toys we all love so much. But here’s the thing: nobody has a job anymore. Well, not “nobody,” but with unemployment currently hovering around 10... |
| 25.05.2010 | 30 percent of netbook shoppers bought an iPad instead, survey says | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Nearly one in three buyers who had been considering a netbook waited for, and then bought, an Apple iPad tablet instead, according to a... |
| 25.05.2010 | 30 percent of netbook shoppers bought an iPad instead, survey says | Nearly one in three buyers who had been considering a netbook waited for, and then bought, an Apple iPad tablet instead, according to a survey of more than a thousand US consumers spread across gender, age, income and location demographics.... |
| 03.05.2010 | Nearly half of parents friend their kids on Facebook | reader comments 59 with 41 posters participating
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A question for those of you who maintain Facebook or other social networking accounts: how many of you friend your parents?... |
| 13.04.2010 | Cutting cable’s cord: couch potatoes slowly migrating to ‘Net | reader comments 71 with 62 posters participating
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Close to a quarter of the younger respondents to a new study say that most of the video content they watch is online. And a... |
| 07.04.2010 | Roundup: HP leaks tablet details, poll reveals rampant cyber-snooping among couples, and more | Here’s the latest action:
HP leaks details about tablet — Hewlett-Packard’s Slate, a tablet meant to compete with Apple’s iPad, will have 64 gigabytes of memory and sell for a little less than $600, according to information leaked today.
FT... |
| 17.03.2010 | ‘Net addiction at a new level: users update from bed, dinner | reader comments 44 with 38 posters participating
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Nearly half of Internet users check for or post updates to Twitter and Facebook after they have already gotten themselves t... |
| 01.03.2010 | Survey says: Greener gadgets not yet a priority, but getting there | In the wake of the Greener Gadgets conference held last week in New York City, review site Retrevo released results from a survey looking at how much green factors into people’s gadget buys. Unsurprisingly, the answer was not much. But ther... |
| 01.03.2010 | Survey says: Greener gadgets not yet a priority, but getting there | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In the wake of the Greener Gadgets conference hel... |
| 09.02.2010 | Survey tries quantifying iPad hype, suggests interest waning | reader comments 111 with 60 posters participating
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"iPad hoopla" has passed, according to a survey by electronics shopping site Retrevo, and consumers have lost in... |
| 08.02.2010 | Apple iPad Consumer Disinterest Study Another Case of Bogus Data | I will admit to finding myself going back and forth on the Apple (AAPL) iPad in terms of its potential today. But I noticed another "study" making the rounds of blogs. This one comes from Retrevo, an online electronics marketplace... |
| 07.02.2010 | iPad Gets No Consumer Love? (POLL) | A new survey from Retrevo finds that consumers’ interest in the Apple iPad died down after they heard what the new tablet PC actually had to offer. According to the company, “not only did Apple fail to convince new buyers, it may have lost ... |
| 05.02.2010 | Roundup: bitter Twitter battle, developers ditch Wii for iPhone | Google Earth tapped to view Bay Bridge in 3-D — Google’s mapping software proves useful in visualizing what the remade San Francisco iconic bridge will look like. [photo credit: CNET]
A bitter Twitter battle rattle — Sounds like Dr. Seuss. ... |
| 28.01.2010 | iPad tweets maxed out at 7,000 per minute, but Obama hits 9,000 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 28.01.2010 | iPad tweets maxed out at 7,000 per minute, but Obama hits 9,000 | Update: Retrevo says President Obama’s State of the Union address whupped Apple’s launch with 9,000 tweets per minute.
Retrevo Buzzmeter, a new service from the online consumer electronics marketplace, tracked tweets about the iPad as part ... |
| 21.01.2010 | Apple gets greener with solar device patent | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 21.01.2010 | Apple gets greener with solar device patent | Apple has been getting greener every week, it seems. First we reported on Greenpeace’s finding that Apple was moving up the ranks of the cleanest tech companies. Next, it was Apple’s home energy management device.
Now the innovation du jour... |
| 16.12.2009 | Gadget advice site Measy will tell you which smartphone to buy | Gadget-recommendation service Measy launched a smartphone tool this week to help users find the perfect smartphone based on their needs. The engine asks users their ideal price as well as the importance of several factors including carrier,... |
| 16.12.2009 | Gadget advice site Measy will tell you which smartphone to buy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gadget-recommendation service Measy launched a smartphone tool this week to help users find the perfect smartphone based on their needs... |
| 13.11.2009 | Retrevo Lets You Tap Into Electronics Recommendations Via SMS And Twitter | There are plenty of sites that aim to help consumers make sense of electronics reviews. Startup Retrevo serves aggregates trusted reviews from a variety of sites around the web, such as Amazon and CNET, and then recommends products based up... |
| 13.11.2009 | Real-time buying reviews with Retrevo | Article content
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the review site Retrovo has launched some new tools for product recommendations that could be a big help for confused consumers.
In what Manish Rathi, co-founder and vice-preside... |
| 10.11.2009 | Snow Leopard and Windows 7 still can't crack the netbook problem | Yesterday evening, Apple rolled out the 10.6.2 update to its Snow Leopard operating system, which concentrated mostly on general bug fixes and stability issues as well as some issues in Mail, MobileMe and Safari. In all, there are more than... |
| 05.11.2009 | Silly study looks at iPhone users' dating habits. Yeah. | There’s a silly study, conducted by Retrevo, making the rounds that purports to analyze how iPhone users fare in the dating world. I know, right? One stat to whet your beak: one in three iPhone owners have admitted to breaking up with their... |
| 04.11.2009 | New Study Paints iPhone Owners as Materialistic, Fickle Egomaniacs | Are iPhone users really that bad? We’re not buying it. It’s odd that a consumer electronics shopping site would sponsor a study that paints such a lousy picture of iPhone owners, but that’s exactly what Retrevo.com has done. For whatever re... |
| 19.10.2009 | Blu-ray needs to make a big impression this holiday season | The Blu-ray high-definition movie format has had a rough time due to high hardware prices, a growth in consumer movie download alternatives, and slower-than-originally-expected sales of the PlayStation 3.
But Blu-ray is starting to get more... |
| 13.10.2009 | Checking Twitter/Facebook: the new post-coital cigarette? | reader comments 41 with 34 posters participating
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That was good for me—was it good for you? Hang on, I need to tweet this.
If you have heard or uttered some variation of the... |
| 29.09.2009 | Wize Redesigns Product Review Search Engine | Product reviews, both from users and experts, are an integral part of the shopping process. Generally, I scour the web for both negative and positive reviews, across multiple sites before purchasing ant type of gadget. Product recommendatio... |
| 28.09.2009 | This holiday season could be good for eBook reader sales | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
An increasing number of people say they have plan... |
| 28.09.2009 | This holiday season could be good for eBook reader sales | An increasing number of people say they have plans to buy an eBook reader during the holiday season, according to a survey by consumer electronics shopping site Retrevo. The interest in the category is actually higher than MP3 music players... |
| 18.08.2009 | Kids want netbooks, not Macs | Survey finds majority of students are planning on buying netbooks and PC laptops
I guess those ads with hip teenagers buying PC’s instead of Macs are working. A recent survey by Retrevo found 34% of students planning on buying a computer we... |
| 27.05.2009 | Some website: "iPods are not good wedding gifts" | I’m writing this up because of how delightfully ham-handed it is, which suggests their tactic worked. Basically, some “gadget matchmaker” service called Retrevo ran a study asking newlyweds what gadgets they wanted as wedding gifts. 38% wan... |
| 17.05.2009 | Shopping 2.0: Current E-commerce Trends (Redux) | In a RWW Live podcast from last December, we discussed ‘shopping 2.0’. In this analysis of the show, we explore how e-commerce has evolved over the past few years – what web technologies our expert guests are currently using, and the trends... |
| 22.04.2009 | Retrevo provides a survival guide to greener living with electronics | For your Earth Day reading enjoyment, the folks at Retrevo (that indispensable source for the product manual you were just sure you'd never need to open again -- you know, the one you tossed two days before you desperately needed page 47) h... |
| 09.02.2009 | Got spare DTV coupons? Retrevo can get them to those in need | reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating
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Did you order a couple of those DTV converter box coupons from the government, but never got around to using them? Maybe you ... |
| 05.02.2009 | A private Web site tries to clean up the public DTV coupon mess | The US DTV transition debacle has become almost comical in its exposure of the failure of bureaucracy, but an announcement this morning only serves to underscore it even more: A social Web site is offering to collect unused government conve... |
| 11.12.2008 | Shopping 2.0: Current E-commerce Trends | This week’s RWW Live, our regular podcast show, was on the topic of ‘shopping 2.0’. In Part 2 of our analysis of the show, we explore how e-commerce has evolved over the past few years – what web technologies our expert guests are currently... |
| 10.12.2008 | Shopping 2.0: How to Target a Niche & Create Community | Yesterday our regular podcast show, RWW Live, was on the topic of ‘shopping 2.0’. The show was very illuminating about how the Social Web has changed e-commerce and what tactics leading apps use to target their audience and make money. Inde... |
| 09.12.2008 | RWW Live: Shopping 2.0 | In this week’s episode of RWW Live, to be broadcast live at 3.30pm PST Tuesday (6.30pm EST), ReadWriteWeb talks to a group of leaders in the online shopping market. We have executives from Retrevo, ModCloth, Baynote, ThisNext and Cartfly on... |
| 31.10.2008 | Product review site TestFreaks scores $3M | TestFreaks, a product review site that says it’s growing steadily, has raised $3 million in a second round of funding.
There’s a lot of competition out there — for example, we’ve covered Retrevo, which sifts through all the information onli... |
| 20.03.2008 | Retrevo Raises $8M More for Aggregation of Consumer Electronics Information | Retrevo, a site that aggregates information about consumer electronics from sources found across the web, has raised $8M in Series B funding from Norwest Venture Partners and Alloy Ventures. Both of these investors were also involved in the... |
| 20.03.2008 | Retrevo, electronic product shopping site, raises $8M | Retrevo, the Silicon Valley company that helps you shop electronic products, and then helps you after the purchase (with troubleshooting tips), has raised $8 million more in a second round of financing.
We reported on the company’s first fu... |
| 19.11.2007 | Retrevo launches clever new way to shop for consumer electronics | Today, Retrevo, the search engine for gadgets, is launching a well-executed attempt to solve the information overload problem ordinary people face when they shop for consumer electronics online.
We’ve written about Retrevo before and have b... |
| 30.07.2007 | Retrevo's "Snapshot" Graphs Products By Price And Features | Retrevo, one of a number of automated, aggregate review sites we previously covered, is releasing an alpha version of a new product comparison feature called “Product Snapshot”. The feature helps find the greatest “bang for your buck” by vi... |
| 07.05.2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| 12.04.2007 | Retrevo.com: Search Engine For Gadgets, Electronics | A search engine made specifically for finding information on gadgets and consumer electronics? I’m in love.
Retrevo.com‘s searches focus on reviews and articles about the products your looking for and dismisses all other irrelevant informat... |
| 29.03.2007 | The courtesan sisters of comparison search, and Thefind | Updated
If you’re searching to buy a product online, there’s no single “branded” engine that stands out — and for a reason. All of the major shopping engines sites have sold out to advertisers.
This may represent a grand opportunity: If a G... |
| 28.01.2007 | The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines | Written by Charles S. Knight,
SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the
analysis.
Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet
and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.”... |
| 05.01.2007 | Consumer electronics search engine Retrevo raises $3.2M | Updated
Retrevo, the search engine for consumer electronics products, has raised $3.2 million more in venture capital — timing the news to generate buzz ahead the CES consumer electronics conference in Las Vegas next week.
The Sunnyvale com... |
| 29.09.2006 | Watch Out Google, Vertical Search Is Ramping Up! | Written by Alex Iskold and edited by
Richard MacManus.
This week at DEMOfall I saw two vertical search applications that made me think that
this area is getting mature and ready for prime time. Pluggd and Retrevo
launched technologies that ... |
| 28.09.2006 | An aggregate review of aggregate review services | Product review search engine Retrevo was selected to launch at DEMO yesterday and it’s pretty cool. We’ve written about competitor ViewScore here before and also launched this month is yet another similar service that just launched called W... |
| 26.09.2006 | Consumer electronics search engine, Retrevo, raises less than $1 million | See our story here.
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| 25.09.2006 | Retrevo offers gadget search engine; raises less than $1M | There is a rolling thunder of new Silicon Valley Internet start-ups launching on funding of around $1 million or less.
The latest is Retrevo, a Sunnyvale search engine focused on research and other advice on consumer electronics. It has rai... |
