Wavii

Wavii was a Seattle startup founded by Adrian Aoun in 2008, and was subsequently acquired by Google, Inc. in April 2013.^[1] Wavii developed an iPhone app that allowed users to follow topics (e.g., a company, celebrity, politician, athlete, city, etc.) and receive short updates about them in their feed. This app was based on data produced by Wavii's proprietary technology, which used natural-language-processing and machine-learning approaches to convert content on the web (e.g., news articles and blogs) into structured summaries of the stories they contained.^[2]

Wavii

Available in	English
Owner	Alphabet Inc.
Commercial	yes
Launched	Late 2008
Current status	Active (Integrated in Google)

Wavii's team was primarily former Last.fm, Microsoft, and Amazon engineers.^[3]

Google acquisition

On April 30, 2013 it was announced that Google, Inc. had acquired Wavii for an amount that was officially undisclosed, but which industry insiders claimed was over $30 million USD. The acquisition was viewed as a way for Google to expand their ability to understand the web for search and to summarize content.^[4]

Google discontinued the Wavii iPhone app and website, but the company reported that it is continuing to run Wavii's technology and produce feed content for applications within Google.^[5]

Following the acquisition Wavii's team relocated from Seattle to the San Francisco Bay area.^[6]