Cue (formerly known as Greplin)
was a website and app co-founded by
Daniel Gross, Shai Magzimof, and Robby Walker that pulled information from online accounts to present an overview of a user's day.
Company info
Cue operated by linking various user accounts belonging to a registered individual and running a query search for keywords within those applications or accounts. For example, someone may have wanted to use a single search feature to check their
Facebook
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,
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accounts without signing in and checking each one individually.
Cue acted as a desktop search, indexing online social networking accounts, and thereby creating a "
personal cloud
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." Cue offered a free version that allowed users to add a certain number of accounts, while a paid version allowed users the option to "unlock" other sources and get more index space.
In 2011, Cue raised $4 million in funding from venture capital firm
Sequoia. Their premium services were $5 per month, which included 500 MB of extra storage space, and $15 per month for an additional 2 GB.
Shut down
In October 2013,
Apple Inc.
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bought the company, for a price estimated between $35 and $45 million. Cue premium users were refunded.
See also
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Locker
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Search engine software
Defunct online companies of the United States
Companies based in San Francisco
Internet properties established in 2010
Internet properties disestablished in 2013
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2013 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States