Product recommendations vendor richrelevance has hired former PayPal executive Tyler Hoffman as its new vice president of sales.
In his new post, Hoffman will direct richrelevance’s expanding team of sales representatives, engineers and account managers.
Call it a coincidence, but over the past few days I have spent a lot of time with folks who used to work for Amazon but are now out doing new things. It all started with Jason Kilar, the CEO of Hulu, who was a keynote speaker at our NewTeeVee Live conference. Then last night I met with Dave Schapell, founder and CEO of TeachStreet, an e-marketplace for teachers. And this morning I had coffee with Jeff Lawson, co-founder of Twilo.
A data processing services firm said it boosted server performance significantly by replacing its servers’ internal disks with Intel X-25M solid-state drives (SSDs).
The company, which goes by the name richrelevance, serves personalized product recommendations for online retailers such as Sears, processing millions of requests each day over its five data centers. Each data center operates a farm of Dell and Hewlett-Packard servers with internal disks for parallel processing.
Sales veteran to lead rapidly-expanding sales team to deliver next-generation personalized recommendations to top retailers worldwide
The harder retailers work to get us to buy on their products, it seems, the lazier we can be.
Who needs to go into the store now that product recommendation engine RichRelevance and interactive marketing firm, and member of the Augmented Reality (AR) Consortium, Zugara just unveiled Fashionista, a solution that allows shoppers to try on items using a computer and Webcam.
Anticipating that a financial crisis like the one we’re currently experiencing wasn’t far away, I’ve run my company, richrelevance, on a zero-fat budget, raising small rounds of capital to ensure our team built the discipline to operate with small budgets. Yet, anticipation of the downturn does not make me immune to the shift. External risks in every business have changed. None of us will go through the next 18 months without significant impact.
RichRelevance continues to attract the best technical and eCommerce talent to execute on its vision of next-generation personalization, recommendations and merchandising
Online recommendation service richrelevance taps Darren Vengroff, formerly of Amazon.com, as Chief Scientist.