Company:AskMeNow
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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| OTC Pink: AKMN | |
| Industry | Search |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Founded | November 2005 |
| Defunct | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Irvine, California |
Area served | North America |
Key people | 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] | |
| US$-20.435 million (FY 2007)[1] | |
| Total assets |  United States dollar 645,110 (FY 2007) [1] |
| Total equity | United States dollar -4.894 Million (FY 2007)[1] |
Number of employees | 32 (Dec 2007) [1] |
AskMeNow Inc. was an United States 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 based on proprietary technology that offered 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 English Wikipedia.[4] The beta product, AskWiki, integrated some of the semantic web and natural language features of AskMeNow into English 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and return specific answers rather than just relevant articles.[5] The contract between AskMeNow and Wikimedia was rescinded after Jimmy Wales announced his own for profit search engine named Wikia.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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "AskMeNow, Form 10KSB, Filing Date Apr 15, 2008". secdatabase.com. http://pdf.secdatabase.com/1201/0001144204-08-022576.pdf. Retrieved Jan 15, 2013.
- ↑ "AskMeNow, Form PRE 14C, Filing Date Nov 3, 2005". secdatabase.com. http://edgar.secdatabase.com/2494/114420405033866/filing-main.htm. Retrieved Jan 15, 2013.
- ↑ "AskMeNow, Form 10KSB, Filing Date Apr 17, 2007". secdatabase.com. http://pdf.secdatabase.com/2601/0001144204-07-019311.pdf. Retrieved Jan 15, 2013.
- ↑ "AskMeNow, Form 10QSB, Filing Date Nov 16, 2007". secdatabase.com. http://pdf.secdatabase.com/971/0001144204-07-062666.pdf. Retrieved Jan 15, 2013.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Encyclopædia Britannica Selects AskMeNow to Launch Mobile Encyclopedia" (Press release). World's Technology News. February 21, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2010. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ "AskMeNow, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Apr 12, 2007". secdatabase.com. http://pdf.secdatabase.com/1765/0001144204-07-018475.pdf. Retrieved Jan 15, 2013.
- ↑ Alltel offers AskMeNow mobile answer service
- ↑ "AskMeNow, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Apr 7, 2006". secdatabase.com. http://edgar.secdatabase.com/2405/114420406014450/filing-main.htm. Retrieved Jan 15, 2013.
- ↑ "AskMeNow, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Feb 13, 2008". secdatabase.com. http://pdf.secdatabase.com/2226/0001144204-08-008606.pdf. Retrieved Jan 15, 2013.
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