Quixey raises US $ 3.8 million, for functional search engine for your applications

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Quixey, on the basis of the Palo Alto startup that builds functional search engine for your applications, today announced that it closed the US $ 3.8 million series a funding round. Investment venture partners led the WI Harper group and the United States, with the participation of Webb investment network, along with subsequent investments, Eric Schmidt innovation. Series round adds to Quixey $ 400 K, grew in April from innovation endeavours to attract investment to $ 4.2 million.

We've all heard (and maybe even prototyping) quip "there is an app for that." It's really excellent quality of the Mobile revolution: there really is an app for just about everything you can think of, from call taxis for managing schedule scan for cancer or heart murmors skin. But it's also overwhelming, and find the application you want is not easy. There are a lot of noise and a lot of flawed approaches to app engine.

Quixey entered the game with the intent to build a new type of search, molded specifically for the unique features of the search for these everywhere, but sometimes elusive apps. Their decision came up with "functional search", which not only scans the major App stores, but blogging crawls, review sites, forums and social media sites to create a truly comprehensive picture of what the application can be done through reviews, Word of mouth and demos.

Quixey for search engine enables the user to enter queries like "baseball report and get a list of applications that provide only that (which they can then filter by platform). And the best part search Zarins Windows and Mac apps, iGoogle, extensions, and much more. It's not just the iOS and Android.

Although the Quixey seemingly to compete with the likes of Chomp and other, startup also has added value offers in the nutritional status of the search for other App stores, search engines and Web sites — just like Google — to facilitate the diffusion of its search engine for third-party sites throughout the Internet.

So it comes as no surprise then that Eric Schmidt innovation Ventures invests in search a great application. Attraction of external information and data from blogs, review sites and beyond, really adds an additional level of depth search applications (especially in being independent of the platform), as well as nutrition search through Web sites gives Quixey the ability to scale and be mixed with the very place it scans. Startup will use its new investment to continue achieving partnership with App stores and other app a great third party resources, and teammate Quixey, there are more than 25 potential partnerships in the pipeline. More partners, the more effective it becomes search engine.

This is an interesting new approach this "functional search, and from my experience so far, works as advertised. Chimes to let us know what you think. More about Quixey here.

Quixey is a functional search engine for your applications. Use the applications in your daily life. You are using Google apps on your phone, in your browser, social networking and ...

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Engine Yard takes Orchestra to add PHP support to its PAAS

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Engine Yard, provider solutions platform as a service (PAAS) this morning announced that it acquired developer platform for Orchestra, deployment, scaling and managing PHP applications.

Engine Yard, which is based on the investors as benchmark capital, new Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com, decided not to disclose the financial terms of the acquisition.

San Francisco company is best known for his PAAS for Ruby on Rails applications, but the acquisition will allow the company to add support for PHP applications.

Engine Yard statement said will continue to develop PHP platform and the Orchestra continue to invest in both Ruby on Rails and PHP open source communities and projects. There are no plans to discontinue support or development of any Orchestra's offerings.

The Orchestra is echolibre, an Irish company avid contribution to community PHP and the creators of the open API framework FRAPI, source (among other projects).

The whole team will be joining engine yard Orchestra due to the acquisition.

To date, engine yard was raised $37,5 million in financing. The company competes with other venture-backed startup Heroku, which was acquired by Salesforce for 212 million dollars in cash at the end of last year), among others.

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Intel Havok is a 3D game engine, Trinigy provider

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Havok, provider of interactive software for games, entertainment and modeling industries which was acquired by Intel in 2007, this morning announced that it has acquired long-time partner Trinigy, a provider of 3D game engine with offices in Germany; Austin, Texas (United States) and Seoul (Korea). Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Trinigy vision game engine used in quite a wide range of games and simulation companies and is available on all major platforms, from PC to game consoles such as PlayStation, XBOX 360 and Nintendi Wii, browsers and mobile devices.

With the addition of Trinigy vision engine Havok's technology portfolio currently grows to include the possibility of rendering. Now it should be known as the engine of the vision of Havok.

Havok provides interactive software and services for companies such as Sony, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft and Activision. Its technology is used for games such as Halo 2, Halo 3, Bioshock 2, Assassin's Creed, Resident Evil 5 and much more.

It is expected that the transaction will close by mid-August.

Havok ™, Intel ® was founded in 1998 in Dublin, Ireland and is the premier provider of interactive software and services for digital media creators in the games and. ..

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Intel is best known for the production of microprocessors, many personal computers. The company also manufactures a variety of other hardware, including network cards, motherboards and graphics chip.

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