Become.com CEO to Present This Week at Dow Jones VentureWire Consumer Technology Ventures Conference.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Become.com Become.com is a product search and comparison shopping start-up company located in Mountain View, CA. It was founded by entrepreneurs Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun who founded mySimon. Become.com was voted the Best of the Web by Forbes Magazine and Business Week during 2005 and 2006. :
WHO: Michael Yang, Founder & CEO, Become.com
WHAT: Michael Yang will present an overview of Become.com's next
generation search technology -- AIR -- and show how it is providing
consumers with more targeted and relevant information when shopping
online. Yang will also discuss the $7.2 million Become.com raised in
their second-round of funding to fuel its continued growth and
expansion. Become.com has shown tremendous momentum in 2005, reaching
significant milestones and producing a constant stream of innovative
products. Become.com is the only vertical search engine to combine
comparison shopping with web-wide research for finding buying guides
and product reviews to help consumers find the best information and
prices when shopping online.
WHEN: Wednesday, November 9, 2005
2:05 P.M. and
2:55 P.M.
WHERE: Dow Jones VentureWire Consumer Technology Ventures
Salon I Room
Sofitel San Francisco Bay
223 Twin Dolphin Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065
http://www.consumertechnologyventures.com/
Press & Analyst Briefings Media and analysts interested in a briefing with Michael Yang Michael Yang (Korean: 양민정, Hanja: 梁民正, born August 31 1961) is a Korean-American Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, California. should contact Trinity Trinity, doctrine in Christianity Trinity [Lat.,=threefoldness], fundamental doctrine in Christianity, by which God is considered as existing in three persons. Blyth Blyth (blīth), town (1991 pop. 36,466), Northumberland, NE England, at the mouth of the Blyth River. It is an industrial center and seaport, with shipbuilding and ship repair. at 415-365-0379 or trinity.blyth@bitepr.com. About Become.com Become.com is a new search engine and comparison shopping site that helps people find product reviews and buying information on millions of products and shop for those products from brand name retailers from across the web. Founded by Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, founders of pioneering online comparison shopping site mySimon mySimon is a comparison shopping website founded by Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun in April, 1998 and acquired by CNET Networks in 2000. It was the largest online comparison shopping site in 2000. , Become.com indexes over 3 billion pages of shopping related information and uses proprietary AIR(TM) (Affinity The relationship that a person has to the blood relatives of a spouse by virtue of the marriage. The doctrine of affinity developed from a Maxim of Canon Law that a Husband and Wife were made one by their marriage. There are three types of affinity. Index Ranking) technology to deliver targeted and relevant information for shopping searches. |
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