- published: 23 May 2016
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Become.com is a product price comparison service and discovery shopping search engine with a mission to help shoppers make ideal buying decisions. Become.com targets popular products such as electronics, home, garden, computers, cameras, clothing, health, beauty and more.
Become, Inc., was founded in 2004 by entrepreneurs Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun who also founded mySimon. By Early February, 2005, the original founders added Jon Glick, past Senior Manager of Search at Yahoo. Two other executives, Greg Haslam of NexTag, and Tony Pecora of eBay, were also brought on board at Become.com.
Become.com is a privately-held company in Sunnyvale, California who received an undisclosed amount of funding during their series A round and an additional $7.2 million in the second round of funding, led by Transcosmos venture capital group, while angel investors Rob Conway and Bob Bozeman were also named. On March 14, 2008 Become.com raised $17.5MM in additional funding from TPG Growth Fund. In October 2009, Become.com acquired the German e-commerce technology firm Pangora. Pangora’s Karlsruhe offices will now be the base for Become’s European operations. In September 2009, Become.com moved into the education lead generation market with its Simply Degrees service. In October 2009 Become.com released a Black Friday site that organized deals by category so that users could compare the savings of Black Friday deals from different merchants, and also contained the ability to compare each individual deal to existing prices for the product from online merchants, so consumers could tell if there were real savings availably for a given product.
Sunrise blinding my eyes
Riding on the wind
Down, down, down
Oppression is holding us down
Tied to the ground
Shackled and chained we are bound
See how you’ve broken
The will of all these men
The spirits are choking
But hope will always remain
Sunrise blinding my eyes
Riding on the wind
I’m sick of this, sick of this fighting
Life like animals
Pound, pound, pound
Grinding them into the ground
Keeping them blind
In darkness ever confined
Revel in terror
Revel in pain
Our spirits are choking
But hope will never refrain
Sunrise blinding my eyes
Riding on the wind
I’m sick of this, sick of this fighting
Life like animals
Die, die, die
The forgers of this evil lie
The yoke cast aside
Breaking the chains Freedom cry
No we are rising, reach for the sky
Sunrise kissing my eyes
Riding on the wind
I’m free from this, free from this fighting
Free like animals
Beauty reflecting the sunlight
Mountains crowned with snow
I marvel at valleys in bloom
Stand in awe of mother earth