Tag: Aquisition
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Facebook Buys Voice Sensor Startup Wit.ai
Facebook has picked up voice acquisition and recognition start-up Wit.ai, a company who have been working in that field for the last 18 months. Amazingly, the small company includes 6000 developers on their platform, and specialize in creating development kits for integrating voice recognition in other apps. SEE ALSO: Microsoft has not killed Nokia! –…
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Facebook Buys Face.com – Does Facial Recognition Database Pose New Threat to Our Online Safety?
Following a recent $1-billion deal to buy Instagram, the world dominating social network Facebook has now snapped up the small Israeli-based software company which created and runs the Face.com website – featuring a software which can recognise the faces of our friends and family from stored information on the website’s database. High-profile business site Reuters…
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Rhapsody buys Napster – Declares online music war on Spotify
Digital music subscription co. Rhapsody has snapped up Napster in an attempt to reinforce it’s presence in the online music war after Spotify recently linked up with Facebook. The deal will see Rhapsody ‘aquire’ subscribers to the one time bootlegger’s paradise, as well as bolstering the existing catalogue of over 11,000,000 available tunes. Former Napster…
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HTC Chairwoman speaks about WebOS – Purchase will not be made on ‘impulse’
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HTC’s Chairwoman has spoken out about rumours that the Taiwanese mobile co. are set to snap up Hewlett Packard’s recently discarded WebOS operating software, saying that any purchase of the defunct platform will not be done on ‘impulse’. Cher Wang was interviewed by The Economic Observer, a Chinese business newspaper, and she addressed the speculation…
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Skype aquires GroupMe – Multiperson text-based chat to rival Google+
Skype has just announced its purchase of GroupMe, a mobile group texting service – which adds another social weapon to the arsenal against Google. Working much like the Huddle feature on Google+ for mobiles, GroupMe brings friend together for multiperson conversations using text-based “chatting” allowing easy organisation of get-togethers and keeping everybody involved “in the…