eBay acquires Hunch.com

eBay has acquired Hunch, an online platform launched in 2009, that delivers customized recommendations to its users based on their individual tastes. Hunch's patented prediction technology — also known as a "taste graph" — uses signals from around the Web to map members with their predicted affinity for products, services, other people, websites, or just about anything, and customizes recommended topics for them. Hunch's technology talent and its deep expertise in areas like machine learning, data mining and predictive modeling are expected to help eBay expand and grow merchandising and relevance capabilities to further improve the shopping and selling