Can Eduardo Saverin's New Investment Help Facebook Beat Google?

One of the original co-founders of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, led the $8 million in venture financing of Qwiki. Calling this startup a maker of web query software oversimplifies the curated multimedia presentations that the Internet search tool produces. But because it seems like an obvious improvement over Google, we wonder how this innovation might benefit the leading social network.

One of the original co-founders of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, led the $8 million in venture financing of Qwiki. Calling this startup a maker of web query software oversimplifies the curated multimedia presentations that the Internet search tool produces. But because it seems like an obvious improvement over Google, we wonder how this innovation might benefit the leading social network.

Qwiki’s pitch to the venture capital community at TechCrunch Disrupt looked like the startup has something that might steal market share away from Google’s search engine business.

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