Sphere, which raised a $4.3M seed as an edtech marketplace, pivots and raised a $21M Series A led by a16z to develop an AI tax compliance software service
As Nicholas Rudder built his last startup, an educational marketplace called ScholarSite, he kept running into the same problem: tax.
Microsoft and Sony both advertise on the The Sphere in Las Vegas, for Xbox and Spider-Man 2, respectively; a leak showed Sphere ad slots may cost up to $450K
Microsoft and Sony have both spent thousands of dollars this week in marketing campaigns at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
Meta launches Sphere, an open-source AI knowledge tool based on 134M public webpages; Wikipedia, Sphere's first user, is using it to verify articles' citations
an order of magnitude larger and significantly more intricate than ever used for this sort of research. Read more: https://ai.facebook.com/... https://twitter.com/... @metaai : (1/2) Today, we're anno...
Twitter acquires London-based Sphere, which develops a group chat app and has raised $30M to date
Twitter has acquired London-based Sphere, which operates an eponymous groups chat app, the latest in a series of recent moves from the social network as it looks to aggressively broaden and improve it...
It's a Sphere! The Inside Story of Nexus Q, Google's Music Hardware Gamble
SAN FRANCISCO — Sharing music with friends used to be intimate, even messy. We visited each other's homes with stacks of records, and plundered album sleeves until vinyl littered the floor.
Video: Microsoft's Sphere display in action
In the video above, Hrvoje Benko of Microsoft Research demonstrates Sphere. Here's an advance look at the story I wrote for Tuesday's newspaper. — tb — Flat-panel displays might be all the rage, bu...
AOL Buys Sphere's Blog Content Engine
Tomorrow AOL will announce the acquisition of San Francisco-based Sphere, a blog content engine that launched in 2006. The price is not being disclosed, but sources are suggesting it's in the $25 mil...
Techmeme Leaderboard To Launch, Attacking Technorati's Last Stronghold
Blog search engine Technorati's founding CEO is gone, its traffic party has ended and its core search functionality is under long term fire from competitors like Google Blog Search, Ask.com and Sphere...
Sphere focuses search on time and connections
You may have noticed we have a Sphere link for every ZDNet blog post, which brings up a widget (below) that offers up related blogs posts and other articles. It's part of our ongoing effort to surfac...
New Blog Search Engine Sphere Launches
New blog search engine Sphere launched just moments ago and has also announced a $3.75 million round of venture financing. In addition to covering the launch of Sphere here, we have a podcast intervi...