Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much they were acquired for, seeing has Google dropped ~3 billion on Nest..
Impermium acquired by Google
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Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#12Is it just me or does anyone else feel lile they're thanking their customers for being guinea pigs for experimenting their WIP.systems. That the end game was always a Google acquisition and these customers were just a way to prove that something of value had been built. Now that it is done, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
the customers got something out of it too, no?
But perhaps not a business partner in it for the long term that they might have hoped for.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#13Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much they were acquired for, seeing has Google dropped ~3 billion on Nest..
I don't think I've ever seen anyone round off 200 million dollars before.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
the customers got something out of it too, no?
But perhaps not a business partner in it for the long term that they might have hoped for.
when I buy a service I don't expect a business partner. I'm not sure why other people do -- anyone got some good reading on this (admittedly nebulous) topic?
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Impermium protects SaaS application users from account hijacking and account compromise.
so what exactly did they do?
Livefyre was one of their early users. Every comment submitted into any comment widget hosted by Livefyre was sent over to Impermium for spam analysis. Impermium had a pretty cool 2 phase process where they'd give you a rough spam score within seconds and then a more accurate score within minutes.
Livefyre had some sophisticated behavior as a result. Comments were always pushed live to other page viewers immediately while simultaneously sent to Impermium, then revoked (via live update) if either the first or second pass through Impermium resulted in a spam indication. Email notifications weren't released until the second pass indicated nonspam.
Not sure if Livefyre still uses Impermium today or what this buyout may mean for them, but I always thought the concept was pretty cool.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#17Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how much they were acquired for, seeing has Google dropped ~3 billion on Nest..
I don't think I've ever seen anyone round off 200 million dollars before.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#18Is it just me or does anyone else feel lile they're thanking their customers for being guinea pigs for experimenting their WIP.systems. That the end game was always a Google acquisition and these customers were just a way to prove that something of value had been built. Now that it is done, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
Okay, why the negative votes? Just read their announcement. It reads like a farewell note to their current customers (at least to me).
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#19Is it just me or does anyone else feel lile they're thanking their customers for being guinea pigs for experimenting their WIP.systems. That the end game was always a Google acquisition and these customers were just a way to prove that something of value had been built. Now that it is done, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
Okay, why the negative votes? Just read their announcement. It reads like a farewell note to their current customers (at least to me).
I read your comment as being a cynical.
Playing devil's advocate, assuming what you are saying is correct (customers were guinea pigs and this was all about the exit) - its really tough not sounding like a douche.
When writing that sort of copy, you have to always take the high road.
Re: Impermium acquired by Google
#20best $7K spent:
http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/21/impermium/
"Rather than use an internal data services team, the company turned to Kaggle, a startup that hosts data-driven competitions.
From around the world, statisticians competed to build a tool that combines machine learning and natural language processing to root out malicious commentary. The winner received $7,000 — their solution was the most accurate with a false positive rate of less than one percent.
After posting the competition, the company received 154 submissions from contenders, and made some interesting discoveries about the nature of hate speech. "