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Expect Labs In the News

May 3, 2013

Great Expectations for Expect Labs; New Investors are Samsung, Intel and Telefonica

...an impressive display of what the company calls ‘Anticipatory Computing'.

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May 1, 2013

'Psychic Siri' tech gets cash injection from Samsung, Intel, Telefonica

...the Anticipatory Computing Engine analyses conversations while they're happening in order to have pertinent information at the ready before a user knows they need it.

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May 1, 2013

Expect Labs' Anticipatory Computing Draws A-List Support

[Expect Labs] could open up a new generation of predictive, voice-activated search that leaves Siri in its dust.

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April 30, 2013

Intel, Samsung invest in high-powered Siri alternative Expect Labs

Expect Labs [is] building a Siri-like platform on steroids...

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April 30, 2013

Expect Labs Gets Endorsements (and Money) From Samsung, Intel and Telefonica

...Expect Labs now has buy-in from one of the largest players in each vertical: devices, software, hardware and carriers.

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April 30, 2013

Intel, Samsung, Telefonica endorse anticipatory computing, invest in Expect Labs

The backing of leading companies from the consumer device, semiconductors and telecommunications worlds is a significant endorsement of the company’s vision.

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April 30, 2013

Samsung, Intel Invest In “Anticipatory Search” Startup Expect Labs

This is definitely a company to watch.

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April 30, 2013

Why Big Companies Are Investing in a Service that Listens to Phone Calls

Expect Labs has attracted attention because its technology is in line with the general direction that search technology has been taking with the advent of wearable computers such as watches and glasses, and Internet-connected cars and TVs.

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April 30, 2013

Intel Capital, Samsung Ventures, And Telefonica Digital Become Expect Labs’ Newest Strategic Investors

This buy-in from some very prominent partners speaks to the stickiness of Expect Labs’ vision of the future of computing.

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April 30, 2013

Eavesdropping 2.0: Samsung, Intel and Telefonica invest in voice recognition tech that anticipates your every need

That three major corporations with stakes in computing, mobile and home electronics would want to proactively invest in Expect Labs' tech is a no-brainer.

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April 30, 2013

Samsung and Intel invest in speech analysis company Expect Labs

Speech recognition is becoming a more central part of a growing number of consumer electronics products, including smartphones, tablets and TVs, but Expect Labs wants to take what is currently offered to the next level.

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April 30, 2013

Samsung, Intel and Telefónica invest in Expect Labs and its intelligent prediction software

Expect Labs’ Anticipatory Computing Engine has the incredible potential to learn what we’re looking for even before we search for it...

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April 30, 2013

The walls have ears: Samsung and Intel bet big on a startup that searches every word you say

Will [users] be as open to TV screens and telephones that... suggest that right recipe, state capital, or song title? Some of the biggest names in the tech world are betting the answer is yes.

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April 30, 2013

Intel and Samsung throw cash at Expect Labs’ smart Siri alternative

Expect Labs [is] a company that you should definitely keep your eye on.

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April 30, 2013

App MindMeld Receives Major Investment

...it’s important to note that tech companies are, quite literally, buying into the notion of “anticipatory computing” as the next major step forward in the way content and information are delivered to consumers.

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February 7, 2013

The future of search is gravitational: Content will come to you

...it appears the future of search isn't search at all.

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February 5, 2013

Expect Labs Teams up With Factual To Bring Better Location Data To Its Anticipatory Computing Engine

Expect Labs has tapped big data startup Factual Inc. and its sizable store of location data in a bid to make its vaunted Anticipatory Computing Engine even smarter.

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January 17, 2013

Smart Assistant Listens to You Talk, Fetches Info Automatically

They’ve really hit a nice niche...That it doesn’t require explicit interaction is really quite exciting.

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January 2013

2013, The Year of Anticipation and Refinement

And we’re just scratching the surface of the potential of this industry. Anticipatory computing will be the trend to watch for years to come, and will effect everything from shopping to behavior to social media and back again.

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January 10, 2013

CES 2013 Hot Stuff Award winners announced

...we can see great things in this app's future.

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January 10, 2013

CES: An app that listens in on phone calls

MindMeld searches for things relevant to your conversation.

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January 9, 2013

CES 2013: New Gadgets That Solve Business Problems

A better way to brainstorm.

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January 9, 2013

Mindmeld iPad app understands your conversations and searches the web so you don't have to

Mindmeld's speech recognition worked superbly, the app's UI looked absolutely spot on and sharing web pages between callers was instantaneous.

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January 8, 2013

MindMeld searches for information relevant to your conversation

We're always showing you information that we think is related to what you're talking about.

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January 7, 2013

MindMeld chimes in on your video conversations

...this voice-and-video caller offers a layer of functionality that I haven't yet seen in a communications app.

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January 4, 2013

There’s An App For Everything At International CES 2013

[Here are] some of the newest apps that will make your connected life more productive and entertaining.

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December 13, 2012

Nuance and Expect Labs Combine to Showcase Power of Understanding Speech

The prospect for MindMeld, and other post-Siri applications, to be quick learners is what makes me quite bullish for prospects of better personal virtual assistants (or advisors) in 2013.

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December 12, 2012

MindMeld maker Expect Labs teams up with voice expert, Nuance

Expect is one of the companies I am most excited about as it represents big progress in how we consume information and interact with devices.

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December 12, 2012

Searching without searching: Expect Labs taps Nuance for bold predictive computing

We’re now getting the first taste of a world where our computing devices fetch us relevant information without our asking.

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December 12, 2012

Expect Labs Taps Nuance’s Voice Recognition Tech for Better Conversation Analysis

Please hurry — I (and more than a few others, naturally) want to start playing with this as soon as humanly possible.

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December 12, 2012

Nuance to provide voice recognition for Expect Labs’ MindMeld ‘mind reading’ app

Expect Labs thinks it has what it takes to read your mind, and it’s building the MindMeld iPad app equipped with its “anticipatory computing engine” to prove it.

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December 12, 2012

Expect Labs Taps Nuance

By continuously analyzing signals such as location, voice, and online activity, the Expect Labs platform creates a real-time context model, which can be used to anticipate and filter any information that a user may need.

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December 12, 2012

Grokr & Expect Labs: More Mobile Search Insurgents Appear

Just when you thought competition in search was effectively over, it starts to get interesting again.

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December 12, 2012

Expect Labs CEO Tim Tuttle on Anticipatory Computing

It's a great example of what the future of mobile applications may look like.

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November 29, 2012

More Than a Century Old, the QWERTY Keyboard Is Ripe for Reinvention

...Google Ventures-backed Expect Labs analyzes voices during chats to deliver appropriate Web pages without users having to enter search terms. The San Francisco-based company has been working in stealth since 2010, developing technology to listen in on conversations, analyze them and then suggest related websites the speakers might find helpful. The company will launch MindMeld, a video chat app for the iPad, later this year.

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November 11, 2012

MindMeld app anticipates what you want

...If a group is planning to meet for sushi in Las Vegas, the panel will be populated with restaurant listings, reviews, and reservation options. Or if an executive is conducting a job interview by videoconference, the candidate’s LinkedIn profile and related Web links would fill the screen...

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November 8, 2012

Tim Tuttle's App for Automatic Search

...he co-founded Expect Labs in San Francisco to build software for a time when humans no longer hunt down information by typing queries into a text box on a computer. Instead, Tuttle sees the day coming when searches take place automatically based on things people are saying and doing...

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October 9, 2012

An iPad App That Listens To Your Conversations

The Expect Labs team has written nine patents covering the technology, which combines real-time language analysis with data signals. Signals including geolocation and past behavior...

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October 6, 2012

MindMeld Will Change The Way You Look at Digital Assistants

...more advanced than Siri or Google Now, the service doesn’t wait for you to ask it to search, it just searches in the background while you’re carrying on a normal conversation.

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October 5, 2012

An always-on Siri: MindMeld listens to you talk, finds what you need

Tim Tuttle intends to give Siri and Google Now a run for their money with MindMeld, an iPad app slated to launch in the App Store this fall, with an iPhone app soon to follow.

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October 4, 2012

Expect labs raises $2.4m from Google Ventures, Greylock for predictive computing engine

...MindMeld iPad app looks pretty killer. The software supposedly can listen in the background of a voice chat and predictively grab information from the Internet for users to interact with and share with each other.

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October 4, 2012

MindMeld app maker Expect Labs gets $2.4M from Google, others

Expect Labs, the company that is helping usher in the era of anticipatory (or predictive) computing says it has received a big cash infusion from well known investors such as Greylock Partners and Google.

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October 4, 2012

MindMeld Understands Human Conversation, Could Put Siri To Shame

...it’s a big step forward in the way we’ll interact with our computing systems, or at least that’s what Expect Labs will be working on with the $2.4 million it received in investor funding today from Google Ventures and Greylock Partners.

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October 4, 2012

Expect Labs Raises $2.4M to Scale AI Tech and Anticipate Searches

With the power to deliver search results before you even type a query, anticipatory computing engine Expect Labs Inc. has raised seed funding to further scale its technology.

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October 4, 2012

Disrupt Battlefield Finalist Expect Labs Locks Up $2.4M In Funding For Its Real-Time Conversation Analyzer

Expect Labs’ big draw is what it calls its Anticipatory Computing Engine, a system that aims to analyze “multi-party conversations” and provide contextual information in real-time without requiring input from the user.

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October 4, 2012

Siri on steroids: MindMeld understands an eight-person conversation

Devices that listen to your every word and search for information before you even know to ask.

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September 26, 2012

Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups vie for attention

Depending on what types of food, drinks and possible meeting places are mentioned, MindMeld "listens" in the background and pulls up pertinent restaurant suggestions, reviews, maps, images and phone numbers using data from across the web and social networks.

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September 12, 2012

Expect Labs Analyzes Conversations in Real Time

What’s most important to Tuttle, who co-founded early video search engine Truveo (acquired by AOL), is the technology Expect has built, which he wants to provide to other calling apps.

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September 12, 2012

When Search Takes Fewer Than Zero Seconds

A San Francisco-based company called Expect Labs introduced an iPad app called MindMeld this week at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. The app is a voice-call and video-chat program. Based on what it hears people say during an online conversations, it initiates its own search without any other action by the user.

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September 11, 2012

The Final 7 Disrupt SF Startups...

For the Battlefield, we’ve narrowed down the 30 companies in our startup battlefield to seven startups competing for the grand prize: the Disrupt Cup and a $50,000 stipend... Expect Labs’ MindMeld app analyzes your conversations in real time and pulls pertinent information so you’re always in the know.

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September 11, 2012

New app MindMeld heralds the era of anticipatory computing

Put this app on a WiFi – which we did – and everything from picture quality to voice latency and information being pushed to the screen was pretty flawless. Sure, it was a demo on a system used by no more than a dozen people, including all eight of the company’s employees, but I have seem many demos in my time. Someday, Siri will work as flawlessly as this app and will get an A-plus from me.

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September 11, 2012

MindMeld voice and video app instantly anticipates your needs

The idea here, Tuttle said, is that MindMeld is at the forefront of the kind of technology that will surround us everywhere in a few years and that will be always on and constantly paying attention in order to serve up information when we want it, or possibly even before we know we want it.

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September 11, 2012

Expect Labs’ MindMeld iPad App Understands Your Conversations In Real Time

Wouldn’t it be easier if there were a piece of software that could analyze your conversations in real time and pull pertinent information so you’re always in the know? Of course, which is why Expect Labs’ MindMeld iPad app has the potential to advance natural-language recognition and push the envelope where Google, Microsoft, and Apple have failed so far.

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September 11, 2012

MindMeld App Listens to Phone Calls and Gives Context

What’s most important to Tuttle, who co-founded early video search engine Truveo (acquired by AOL), is the technology Expect has built, which he wants to provide to other calling apps.

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Expect Labs Press Releases

April 30, 2013

Intel Capital, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation, and Telefónica Digital Make Strategic Investment in Expect Labs

New investors join Google and Greylock in backing Expect Labs and their Anticipatory Computing technology

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February 5, 2013

Expect Labs Partners with Factual to Enhance Its Anticipatory Computing Technology

Through the partnership with Factual, the knowledge base of Expect Labs' Anticipatory Computing Engine will further expand to include information about millions of local businesses, venues, and points of interest.

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December 12, 2012

Expect Labs Uses the Power of Nuance Voice Technology to Enhance Their Anticipatory Computing Engine

In advance of the release of the MindMeld iPad app, Expect Labs bolsters their technology platform with Dragon voice recognition capabilities from Nuance.

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October 4, 2012

Expect Labs Announces Backing from Heavyweight Investors to Scale Technology Platform for Understanding Conversations in Real-Time

Expect Labs emerged from stealth mode last month when they were selected from among hundreds of the most promising early-stage companies to be a finalist of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference...

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September 11, 2012

Expect Labs unveils MindMeld, the first voice and video calling app that understands conversations in real-time

MindMeld's underlying technology reinvents conversations by listening as you talk to ensure that information you need is always at your fingertips...

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