期刊名称：Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering
出版年度：2013
卷号：36
期号：3
出版社：IEEE Computer Society
摘要：Kosmix was a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2005 by Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan. Initiallytargeting Deep Web search, in early 2010 Kosmix shifted its main focus to social media, and built a largeinfrastructure to perform social media analytics, for a variety of real-world applications.In 2011 Kosmix was acquired by Walmart and converted into @WalmartLabs, the advanced researchand development arm of Walmart. The goals of the acquisition were to provide a core of technical people inthe Valley and attract more, to help improve traditional e-commerce for Walmart, and to explore the futureof e-commerce. This future looks increasingly social, mobile, and local. Accordingly, @WalmartLabscontinues to develop the social media analytics infrastructure pioneered by Kosmix, and uses it to explore arange of social e-commerce applications
