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Pinterest Buys VisualGraph |
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About the organization Pinterest:
Type: Business
Sub-Types: Website, Picture Hosting Agent, Social Networking Agent, GIF Hosting, GIF Sharing, Internet, Application Software, Telecommunication, Telecommunication Software |
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Notable Organizations: Pinterest, WSJ.D Technology
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| Pinterest wants to step up competition with FacebookFB -1.73%, Google and YahooYHOO -0.24% in the white-hot field of image recognition.
The social site for pinning collections of photos has purchased VisualGraph, a two-person startup that specializes in visual search, a Pinterest spokeswoman said in an email. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition is a sign of growing demand for engineers with expertise in computer vision, a technology that helps computers learn to recognize people and objects inside photos and video. In 2012, Facebook bought Face.com to quickly identify the names of people in photos uploaded by users. |
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