Before Yelp and TripAdvisor, before blogs or social media, there was Epinions.com. Founded in 1999, Epinions was a consumer review website before we fully appreciated how much we needed consumer ...

Early in 2001, Epinions.com faced the same choice as scores of other dot-coms: Adapt or die. While the shopping information site, founded in 1999 by former Yahoo, Excite and Netscape executives and ...

Nirav Tolia, who led one of the darling and prescient Web sites of the last boom, Epinions, but then who fell into controversy, and then disgrace, is back in the game. He has joined Silicon Valley ...

Partners at two prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms deceived four of the five founders of a startup company, withholding critical information and thereby cheating them out of tens of ...

Nirav Tolia was still in his 20s when he co-founded high-flying startup Epinions, which let users ask questions and post opinions about everything from books to banks to baby strollers. It became one ...

Remember the Epinions suit? Well, it has been settled, and some are saying it is a precedent of sorts because it forced venture capitalists to make a payment to founders who cried foul after their ...

Nirav Tolia was still in his 20s when he co-founded high-flying startup Epinions, which let users ask questions and post opinions about everything from books to banks to baby strollers. It became one ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Not so long ago, Naval Ravikant’s name was mud in much of Silicon Valley. Radioactive mud. The co-founder of Epinions raised eyebrows in 2005 by suing powerful venture firms Benchmark ...

After four years of telling the world what he thinks about beer, Mexico vacation spots and Latin music, Mark Stevens of Houston recently experienced an epiphany. “I’m rethinking things,” says the ...

Online shopping search engine DealTime announced plans Wednesday to acquire online consumer reviews and ranking company Epinions. The deal, expected to close within six weeks, will enhance DealTime's ...