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Kittyhawk launches comprehensive commercial drone platform
Real-time drone operations app provider Kittyhawk.io Inc. announced today the launch of its drone flight management platform Flight Deck. The Flight Deck platform seeks to lighten the load on commercial drone pilots by bringing in-flight controls and functions alongside Kittyhawk’s existing operations capabilities. Drone pilots already use the platform for pre-flight planning and checklists before ...
Tile raises $25M to help people keep track of their things
Smart location and Internet of Things solutions company Tile Inc. announced today that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Founded in 2013, Tile launched its first products in 2014 with a goal to help people who keep losing their stuff to find it ...
Signzy Technologies mixes IBM Watson and blockchain to reduce financial fraud
In a bid to make it easier for the banking industry to keep track of customer identity, IBM Corp. announced Thursday that Bangalore, India-based financial firm Signzy Technologies Pvt. Ltd. will use IBM Watson’s cognitive computing capability with IBM Blockchain services to develop a digital trust platform. The two technologies together would be used to assist banks ...
Vivid Vision raises $2.2M to use virtual reality to treat vision disorders
As cheaper virtual reality headsets continue to enter the market, many manufacturers have been working on solutions to open up the platforms to more people with vision problems. Just like eyeglasses, VR rigs can be outfitted with prescription lenses. But what if a VR headset could be used to help correct a vision problem? San ...
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 ...