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Online review engagement company Podium raises $32M
Utah-based startup Podium, an online reputation management company that bridges the gap between customer reviews and customer service, announced today a Series A funding round that raised $32 million. Podium Corp. Inc.’s flagship product is a software as a service system that provides aggregation, analysis and management of customer reviews across numerous sites. This is done ...
Cosmos brings BOScoin on board to bring trustworthy contracts to more blockchains
Cosmos, a project of the Interchain Foundation looking to build an “Internet of Blockchains,” announced a partnership today with self-evolving cryptocurrency platform company BlockchainOS Corp.’s BOScoin. With BOScoin on board, Cosmos’ network of distributed ledgers will gain a smart contract system designed around the concept of “Trust Contracts,” which is an approachable framework for creating ...
Polish startup Userfeeds looks to fight fake news with the blockchain
Poland-based startup Userfeeds has a project in the works that will combat the proliferation of fake news using the blockchain called the Userfeeds Engine. To do this, Userfeeds means to use a ranking reputation framework that uses a blockchain, a distributed cryptographic ledger, to produce reputation tokens, provide secure and decentralized voting system and a ...
Edgybees launches the first augmented-reality obstacle course for DJI drones
Flying a drone may be fun and games already for most who own one of these remote-control flying robots but as it turns out setting up an obstacle course is not as easy as it sounds. Add in that the average consumer drone can cost hundreds of dollars, accidentally crashing it into something would be ...
Modular eye tracking hardware launching for HTC Vive this month
The HTC Vive virtual reality headset will become one of the first consumer headsets on the market to get eye motion tracking capability, HTC Corp. announced last week. Chinese startup 7invensun has produced modular eye tracking devices that fit into the Vive that can be fitted with already existing headset models. The module, called the aGlass ...
Blockchain financial services solution Humaniq raises $5M in crowd token sale
Blockchain-based financial services company Humaniq announced today that the company’s crowdfunded token sale has raised $5.2 million from 11,860 participants. This pre-seed funding round came from what is called an “Initial Coin Offering” and involved the public crowd sale of HMQ digital tokens. Humaniq uses distributed ledger technology based on the Ethereum blockchain protocol to provide ...
You can make a phone call with Acer’s new Holo 360-degree video camera
Taiwanese multinational hardware technology company Acer Inc. unveiled its new Holo 360 camera with integrated Long Term Evolution 4G capability at the company’s annual global press conference today. The Holo 360 comes equipped with two fish-eye cameras on either side for delivering 360-degree and virtual reality capable video. It will run on Android and also provides a ...
With Mediachain acquisition, Spotify looks to apply blockchain to music licensing
Popular music streaming service Spotify AB announced today that it has acquired Brooklyn-based blockchain startup Mediachain Labs. Mediachain Labs builds open-source distributed ledger solutions, also called blockchains, to provide attestation and attribution for creative works. In 2016, the company launched an open-source image attribution engine, the Mediachain Attribution Engine, designed to make searching for images ...
Google introduces next-gen Jump virtual reality camera
Technology giant Google Inc. yesterday introduced the next generation of its virtual reality Jump camera – the Yi Halo – and announced Jump Start, a program to give Jump cameras to more VR filmmakers. Google launched Jump in 2015 out of a desire to simplify VR video production and the team partners with camera manufacturers ...
Ahead of Earth Day, HTC Vive VR ‘impact’ grants will immerse viewers in space, trees and honeybees
HTC Vive, industry leader in virtual reality hardware and software from HTC Corp. and Valve Corp., today announced the first grant recipients of the VR for Impact program. The vision of the VR for Impact program is to deliver $10 million to help drive VR technologies and content to use virtual reality to create a ...
