LinkedIn Acquires Bright: Big Data Job Matching

me@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban) — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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LinkedIn acquired Bright in early 2014 for approximately $120M — one of the larger talent-tech acquisitions of the era. Bright built a job search engine that went beyond keyword matching: it used machine learning to score the fit between a candidate’s resume and a job description, ranking opportunities by predicted match quality rather than keyword occurrence or recency.

Sparrow Acquired by Google

me@ryanorban.com (Ryan Orban) — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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In July 2012, Sparrow — the independently-developed Mac and iOS mail client widely regarded as the best email experience on either platform — was acquired by Google. The announcement was notable not for the acquisition itself but for what it revealed: the team was joining Google to work on something unspecified, and Sparrow would receive no more feature updates. Users who paid for the app were left with working software and no future.

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LinkedIn Acquires Bright: Big Data Job Matching

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Sparrow Acquired by Google

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