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Nokia explores virtual reality ads for its upcoming health products
Finnish technology company Nokia Corp. announced today the first demonstration of a virtual reality advertisement campaign focused on its new lineup of smart health products. The campaign makes use of the OZO, Nokia’s high-end professional 360-degree video camera, and shows how virtual reality can be used to assist in e-commerce for the portrayal and sale ...
Bitfury Group and Risk Cooperative partner up on insurance blockchain applications
U.S. blockchain company Bitfury Group Ltd. today announced a partnership with Risk Cooperative, a risk and insurance advisory firm, to pioneer blockchain applications in the $60 billion insurance intermediation market. Risk Cooperative hopes to apply Bitfury’s expertise and infrastructure to develop applications that will use cryptographically secured peer-to-peer ledger technology, or blockchain technology, for robust ...
Getty Images joins with Jaunt to expand virtual reality video offerings
Famous for its stock photos and video, Getty Images Inc. is now doubling down on virtual reality with a new deal. Getty today announced an extensive distribution partnership for VR and 360-degree video with Jaunt Inc., a leader in high quality cinematic virtual reality. This new partnership will bring cinema-quality VR video to Getty’s stable of media and open ...
AI-augmented crowdsourcing company CrowdFlower raises $20M for enterprise push
Crowdsourced labor and artificial intelligence company CrowdFlower Inc. announced today that it has raised $20 million in venture capital to expand its efforts further into the enterprise. The round, led by Industry Ventures LLC, also included new investor Salesforce Ventures alongside existing investors Canvas Ventures, Microsoft Ventures and Trinity Ventures. People power and machine learning go ...
Blockchain outfit Stratumn raises $7.8M for enterprise data security offering
Paris-based European blockchain security management company Stratumn SAS announced Thursday that it has completed a $7.8 million (€7 million) funding round to advance its stake in the blockchain market for regulatory compliance. Stratumn produces solutions using blockchains, distributed cryptographically secured ledgers, designed to enhance the security and integrity of data. With a blockchain, a company ...
Meet ‘Kit,’ the free virtual employee Shopify merchants can now hire
Shopify Inc. today announced the debut of a virtual employee called Kit for its virtual stores. Shopify provides e-commerce solutions, which are essentially virtual stores that deliver an online presence for merchants. Shopify’s Kit extends the metaphor of the virtual store by adding something that was missing for merchants before: someone to hire the moment they open ...
Hackers take no holidays: 2017 DDoS attacks rise fivefold
Distributed denial-of-service attacks rose by a stunning 380 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to a report released by Nexusguard Inc. today, Furthermore, attackers showed a stronger tendency towards using global holidays to do their deeds, with a greater number of attacks occurring during Valentine’s Day and the Chinese New Year. Large-scale ...
Hallmark brings virtual reality to Father’s Day greeting cards
Greeting card giant Hallmark Cards Inc. today revealed its own take on virtual reality with a new Father’s Day lineup of cards that transform into virtual reality headsets. Hallmark is taking what Google Inc. started with Google Cardboard – cheap VR headsets that could be folded out of cardboard cutouts and inexpensive lenses powered by ...
Walmart bets on STRIVR Labs’ virtual reality training for store employees
The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is turning to virtual reality to assist in training employees on subjects such as management and customer service. With the help of VR startup STRIVR Labs, the retailer expects to deploy VR training capability to more than 200 of its “Walmart Academy” training centers across the U.S. before ...
Samsung SDS builds blockchain network for Korean shipping industry
Samsung SDS, the information technology subsidiary of electronics company Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., announced today that it would be building out a major blockchain network operation to manage Korea’s shipping industry logistics. The network would use a blockchain, a distributed cryptographically secured ledger technology, to track shipping imports, exports and location of cargo in real-time. ...
