AskMeNow
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| Public | |
| Traded as | OTC Pink: AKMN |
| Industry | Search |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Founded | November 2005 |
| Defunct | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Irvine, California |
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Area served
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North America |
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Key people
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Darryl Cohen - CEO |
| Products | S3 - Enterprise Semantic Search Solution |
| Services | SMS-based question answering, mobile content distribution, mobile advertising |
| Revenue |  US$54,536 (FY 2007)[1] |
| US$-9.428 million (FY 2007)[1] |
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| US$-20.435 million (FY 2007)[1] |
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| Total assets |  US$645,110 (FY 2007) [1] |
| Total equity | US$-4.894 Million (FY 2007)[1] |
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Number of employees
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32 (Dec 2007) [1] |
AskMeNow Inc. was an American public corporation, specializing in mobile search and mobile advertising. The Irvine, California based company officially launched in November 2005 and ceased operations in late 2008.[2][3] AskMeNow's primary offering was a consumer mobile search product which utilized proprietary technology to offer a natural language based interaction and dynamic content provision platform.
AskWiki
AskMeNow signed a partnership agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation to bring natural language processing to Wikipedia.[4] The beta product, AskWiki, integrated some of the semantic web and natural language features of AskMeNow into Wikipedia searches. The AskWiki engine was able to parse natural language statements and return specific answers rather than just relevant articles.[5] The contract between AskMeNow and Wikimedia was rescinded after Jimmy Wales announced his own for profit search engine named Wikia.
Partnerships
AskMeNow partnered with a variety of content publishers to offer mobile access to these publishers’ content. These partnerships included National Hockey League,[6] Merriam-Webster,[7] Encyclopædia Britannica,[8] and Guinness World Records.[9]
AskMeNow had established distribution partnerships with Alltel[10][11] in the US and Rogers Wireless and Bell Mobility in Canada.[12][13]
References
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- ↑ http://www.webmonkey.com/2007/11/askwiki_wikipedia_knows_what_you_re_thinking/
- ↑ Puck drops on AskMeNow/NHL deal
- ↑ AskMeNow and Merriam-Webster Launch Mobile Dictionary
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- ↑ Guinness World Records(TM) Selects AskMeNow to Provide Mobile Access to Its Extensive World Record Database Archived May 22, 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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- ↑ Alltel offers AskMeNow mobile answer service
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