Google Reader
An RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google.
Description
Google's web-based program that let people subscribe to news feeds from their favorite sites.
Legal Name
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Former Legal Name(s)
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Company Reputation
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Entity Type
Product
Ownership Status
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Operational Status
Inactive
Founded Date
2005
Operational Duration
8 years
Shutdown Date
2013
Last Financing Round
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Total Raised
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Last Financing Date
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No. of Funding Round(s)
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No. of Investor(s)
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No. of Employees
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Total Revenue
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Post-money Valuation
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Market Capitalization
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Stage of Development
Decline
Transactional Model Type
B2C
Defensibility Moats
Brand, Standards, Experience curve,
City
Mountain View
State/Province
California
Country
United States
Industry
Internet
Categories
Developer APIs, Developer Tools, Data Analytics,
- Low User Acquisition
- Lack of Innovation
- Most people simply consume news differently now than when Reader was launched.
- According to Richard Gingras, Senior Director, News & Social Products at Google, a culture, everyone had moved into a realm where the consumption of news is a near-constant process.
The usage declined.
Users with smartphones and tablets are consuming news throughout the course of the day.
Note: Direct competitors are defined by similarity score of more than 40%, while similar companies are defined by similarity score of less than 40%
| No. | Image | Name | Similarity score | Description | Industry | Categories | Location | Ownership status | Entity type | Stage of development | Transactional model type | Defensibility moats | Last financing round | Total raised | Post-money valuation | Last financing date | No. of funding round(s) | No. of investors | Investors | Total revenue | Market capitalization | No. of investments | No. of acquisitions | No. of board seats taken | Competition | Management | No. of employees | Company reputation | Contact info | Operational status | Operational duration | Shutdown date | Founded date | Legal name | Former legal name(s) | Ticker |
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1. |  | TripHub | 15.1% | An online group travel planning and collaboration that helped compile and centralize information for a group trip. | Internet | Travel and tourism, Analytics | United States | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 1999 | - | - | - |
2. |  | Peeple | 14.6% | A mobile application that allowed people to leave recommendations for other people. | Internet | Mobile Applications, Developer APIs, Applications, Reviews, Software, Social Rating | Australia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10-50 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2014 | - | - | - |
3. |  | Optier | 13.1% | Cloud-based enterprise software business. | Internet | Analytics, Enterprise Software, Application Performance Management | United States | - | - | - | - | - | M&A | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 50-100 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2002 | - | - | - |
4. |  | Fabric | 13.1% | A platform that helped a mobile team build better apps, understand your users, and grow your business. | Internet | Applications, Developer Tools, Analytics | United States | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2017 | - | - | - |
5. |  | Grapeshot | 12.1% | A contextual intelligence platform. | Internet | Advertising, Brand Marketing, Analytics, Ad Network, Software | United States | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100-250 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2006 | - | - | - |
6. |  | Cambridge Analytica | 11.7% | A data mining, analysis, and brokerage company. | Internet | Data Mining, Analytics, Information Technology | United Kingdom | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100-250 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2013 | - | - | - |
7. |  | Fflick | 10.4% | A movie website that provided reviews, news, and information based on data collected from social media. | Internet | Reviews, News, Analytics, Social Media | United States | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2010 | - | - | - |
8. |  | Chatkit | 9.4% | A cloud-hosted messaging app creation tools by Pusher Ltd. | Internet | Messaging, Real Time, Developer APIs, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software | United Kingdom | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 50-100 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2017 | - | - | - |
9. |  | Shipbeat | 9.4% | Location-based platform designed primarily as an aid to small to medium-sized e-commerce businesses. | Internet | Developer APIs, Location Based Services, Shipping, E-Commerce, Delivery | Denmark | - | - | - | - | - | Seed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10-50 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2014 | - | - | - |
10. |  | FoundationDB | 9.2% | A database platform that offered multi-key ACID transactions that supports multiple data models. | Internet | Database, Enterprise Software, Analytics | United States | - | - | - | - | - | M&A | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10-50 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2009 | - | - | - |
11. | .png){kind=logo} | SeeControl | 9.0% | No coding cloud service for building and running IoT applications. | Internet | Analytics, Cloud Data Services, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing | United States | - | - | - | - | - | M&A | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10-50 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2010 | - | - | - |
12. |  | Poliana | 7.9% | A web application that simplified the legislative system by analyzing and visualizing money’s influence in politics. | Internet | Analytics, Government, Politics | United States | - | - | - | - | - | Seed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2013 | - | - | - |
13. |  | Token Analyst | 6.9% | An on-chain analysis platform intended to provide fundamental insights on crypto assets using data from the blockchain. | Internet | FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Analytics | United Kingdom | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2017 | - | - | - |
14. |  | Unifyo | 6.8% | An online platform that helped users find valuable information hidden inside email messages. | Internet | Analytics, Applications, Contact Management, Software | United Kingdom | - | - | - | - | - | Seed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10-50 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2010 | - | - | - |
15. |  | PostRocket | 6.5% | Helped a Facebook page get into its followers' newsfeeds. | Internet | Analytics, Social Media, Marketing | United States | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2010 | - | - | - |
16. |  | Quibb | 5.6% | A professional network to share industry news and analysis. | Internet | News, Analytics, Professional Services | United States | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2013 | - | - | - |
17. |  | Mxit | 5.5% | A mobile social network based in Africa, allows users to share updates, send messages, exchange images, and upload and download media. | Internet | Social Network, Social, Communities, Mobile, Developer APIs | South Africa | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100-250 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2004 | - | - | - |
18. |  | Klout | 5.5% | An application that measured and ranked its users according to online social influence by using social media analytics. | Internet | Analytics, Applications, Social Media | United States | - | - | - | - | - | M&A | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100-250 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2008 | - | - | - |
19. |  | Argyle Social | 5.2% | Provided social media management tools that were focused on powerful social tools for B2B marketers. | Internet | Software Development, Applications, CRM, Analytics | United States | - | - | - | - | - | M&A | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10-50 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2010 | - | - | - |
20. |  | Wazza | 5.0% | An online payments analytics platform. | Internet | FinTech, SaaS, Analytics, Payments | Portugal | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2014 | - | - | - |
21. |  | Lolabox | 4.8% | Offered monthly subscriptions for boxes of beauty products. | Internet | Beauty, Cosmetics, Analytics, Market Research | Indonesia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2013 | - | - | - |
22. |  | Datatorrent | 4.7% | A stream processing platform that enabled companies to extract value from their big data in real-time. | Internet | Analytics, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software | United States | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10-50 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2012 | - | - | - |
23. | .png){kind=logo} | GotStatus | 3.3% | A community-driven systems management and monitoring tool that aimed to be Google Analytics for servers. | Internet | Analytics, Management Information Systems, Server-Side Analytics, Software, Server Monitoring Software | United States | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2007 | - | - | - |
24. |  | Nudge.ai | 3.0% | A revenue intelligence platform to build relationships and grow sales. | Internet | Marketing, Software, SaaS, Analytics, CRM | Canada | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10-50 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2014 | - | - | - |
25. |  | Treato | 1.5% | A data analytics that provided health-related insights to patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals (HCPs), hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. | Internet | Big Data, HealthTech, Analytics | Israel | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10-50 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2007 | - | - | - |
26. |  | Wishareit | 1.3% | A collaborative gifting site where users can find, recommend, give and receive better gifts with. | Internet | Shopping, E-Commerce, Gifts, B2B, SaaS, Analytics | Portugal | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1-10 | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2012 | - | - | - |
27. |  | Dijiwan | 1.1% | A consulting agency. | Internet | Technology, Consulting, Analytics | France | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Inactive | - | - | 2010 | - | - | - |
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