Facebook Acquires Facial Recognition Company

by | Jun 19, 2012 | Cape News, UPDATE | 5 comments

Reuters cites the inevitable people familiar with the matter as stating that Facebook laid out between $55 million and $60 million to acquire Face.com. That’s less than the $80 million to $100 million for which some media reports speculated the deal would close. Face.com launched its first product in 2009. It has grown to 11 employees. In addition to providing the technology integrated into Facebook’s facial recognition for photos, the startup makes standalone applications that serve the same function. On Facebook, the technology comes into play when users upload new photos. It compares the …

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  1. Muzahid
    Muzahid on February 10, 2014 at 4:16 pm

    is facebook expensive

  2. kerrin marz
    kerrin marz on March 1, 2014 at 2:30 pm

    Can anyone tell me the e-mail address or phone number to contact facebook administration?

  3. louisewoods1984
    louisewoods1984 on March 21, 2014 at 5:55 pm

    For example: How many times did Microsoft appear in the news this week. Or how many times was it searched for during a certain period of time.

  4. everydayGuitarist
    everydayGuitarist on March 30, 2014 at 12:26 am

    Has anybody notice if you want to search for an interesting news topic more then a week old most news sites seem to have a basic search engine with a poor database?

    Here is an example of a good search engine with the ability to choose dates to narrow down you’re searches. http://www.wfaa.com/results?search=site&keywords=Weather&searchbutton=Go This should be the standard for all site search functions.

    Now what is most typical is search engines with no way to filter dates in which the results are all randomized making it hard to find an exact story. I love to look for past weather articles such as big snow storms like the year 2009 but most sites don’t allow that kind of searching.

    Entire cities got stranded up to a week during the February blizzard that struck the East Coast and I want to find more about it in order to better understand the weather patterns that produced it and see their effects but most news sites don’t allow specific searching.

    I’ve notice search engines have gotten worse when news sites imitated social media by *updating* to look cool and flashy. I don’t want cool and flashy. I want a simple easy to navigate website that gets me what I want when I want it.
    Yahoo suggests I post it on this category though another option was for Search Engine Optimization in the Business and Finances section.
    AJ and Deighton you both have very good answers! As for the BBC I did find a way to search by date all the way back to the late 90s so you can get news like for example what the latest in robotics were if you search for robots for example. I do like that but they make it hidden.

    It’s almost as if the news sites don’t want you to know. Perhaps they could all be sold out to communist agents? Nahhh our news would never sell themselves out right? They’re incorruptable.

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