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Bitcoin ‘hybrid banking’ company Wirex raises $3 million
Online banking company Wirex Limited announced today that it has raised $3 million in a Series A funding round from leading Japanese financial services company SBI Group. Founded in 2014 and rebranded from E-Coin in 2016, Wirex provides customers prepaid virtual and plastic cards that can be filled with local money or cryptocurrencies such as ...
Conversable launches bots that learn better customer care from employees
Austin-based artificial intelligence company Conversable Inc. today announced the launch of its bot platform AQUA that’s intended to help employees improve customer service more easily. The bot, which stands for “Answer Questions Using Artificial intelligence,” allows businesses to deploy chat bots that can answer customer questions. And when questions cannot be answered, employees can update the bots ...
Zeality injects immersive, social VR content into mobile apps
Virtual reality and social engagement company Zeality Inc. announced the release of its Immersive Media Engine, a VR 360-degree video platform. With the IME, next-generation mobile apps can embed VR content and integrate it directly for enhanced user experience. On mobile devices, VR content can turn a smartphone into a “window” into another place and time. ...
DevOps meets Wall Street at upcoming ‘agile culture’ event in New York
The product studio Modus Create Inc. and the code repository GitHub Inc. will host the first DevOps Wall Street event Friday, March 3, in New York to bring more agile software and services development to finance. When an industry shifts from traditional development to DevOps it means learning to do things in new ways. This means integrating the ...
Phone offline? Peer-to-peer network developer Open Garden has an app for that
Open Garden Inc., developer of offline networking app FireChat, today announced the release of MeshKit, a peer-to-peer mesh networking platform that takes connectivity for offline phones to a new level. With MeshKit, a phone without a connection to a cellular network for data or voice can still connect to other nearby phones also running MeshKit ...
1oT announces worldwide cellular self-service platform for IoT devices
Internet of Things connectivity platform provider 1oT announced today it will launch its self-service cellular solution for the Internet of Things at Mobile World Congress 2017 next week. Built for small- and medium-sized startups, the 1oT Terminal platform is designed to allow scaling worldwide with connected devices and deploy using cellular networks with greater ease. Using ...
Qualcomm announces VR development kit, alliance with Leap Motion
Mobile chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today introduced a new virtual reality development kit for the company’s Snapdragon 385 mobile platform and a collaboration with hand-tracking technology company Leap Motion Inc. To prepare developers for the advanced VR capability built into mobile devices released in 2017, the kit will include a software development kit for developers ...
GlobalSign brings high-volume security certificates to Internet of Things
Internet security and trusted identity certificate provider GlobalSign announced today that the company has launched its Managed Public Key Infrastructure Platform as a commercial service. With the capability to output certificates in large volume, this new platform can support the security needs of Internet of Things networks at scale. As a certificate authority, GlobalSign manages ...
Report from Nuance shows how healthcare professionals benefit from AI
Voice and language processing solutions company Nuance Communications Inc. announced the results of a product study today that shows how much healthcare professionals can benefit from artificial intelligence. The company revealed the study during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2017 conference as part of a presentation about the company’s use of AI. According ...
Informatica announces industry’s first intelligent healthcare data lake
Data management solutions and big data company Informatica LLC has announced the debut of the industry’s first intelligent data lake, a repository for raw data, that’s made specifically for healthcare. The healthcare industry sees a great deal of data from numerous sources, most of it unstructured and difficult to compile, curate and even store. Because of ...