Apple, Inc. has acquired Emotient, Inc., a company that uses artificial intelligence to read people’s facial expressions. Founded in 2012, Emotient’s technology is primarily focused on the marketing industry and delivers insights in the form of three key performance indicators including detailed data on emotions for every face in each video frame, including attention, engagement ...

Indian Bitcoin wallet provider Zebpay (Zeb Ventures Pte Ltd.) has raised $1 million Series A in a round that included Arjun Handa, CMD & VP of Claris Lifesciences, Ltd., and Amit Jindal, managing director of Jindal Worldwide, Ltd. Founded in 2012 originally as BuySellBitco.in, Zebpay offers a mobile Bitcoin wallet that allows users to buy ...

A clever new app from Silicon Valley startup HHITT, Inc. provides a mobile neurocognitive assessment tool for the assistance in making the diagnosis of concussions, as well as treatment of them should a person be found to be concussed. This new app is a gamechanger, and it’s called HHITT (short for Handheld Head Injury Treatment Tool). ...

Much to the disdain of Virtual Private Network (VPN) operators everywhere, Netflix, Inc. announced Wednesday that it was expanding into 130 new countries, making the service truly global, with a few notable exceptions. The announcement was made by Netflix Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and means that ...

Apple received more than just a little Christmas spirit over the holiday season with the tech giant announcing a new App Store sales record. For the two weeks ending January 3, Apple customers spent over a whopping $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV, setting ...

Bitcoin exchange BTCC Technology, Ltd. had an interesting time over the new year when it was targeted by a Bitcoin-for-DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. But in a great story we don’t see often enough, the company held steady and won, complete with a hilarious ending. The company first came under DDoS attack on December ...

When most people think of French company Parrot SA, they immediately think of drones, and rightfully so given it’s one of the largest UAV manufacturers on the globe, but would you relate Parrot to potted plants? In a surprising turn of events, Parrot has grown a green thumb and has launched a smart plant pot ...

Microblogging come messaging service Twitter, Inc. may be due for a radical shakeup with the company reported to be preparing to lift its 140-character limit. The Wall Street Journal quotes the proverbial “person familiar with the matter” as saying that company would lift the 140-character limit to as many as 10,000 characters, but is aiming ...

Oracle Corp. has announced the acquisition of media web tracking company AddThis, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed; however, TechCrunch puts the price at between $100 million and $200 million. Founded in 2014, AddThis is best known for its provision of the “AddThis” button, an embeddable button used by third-party websites to allow users ...

Retired former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson is expanding his presence in the Bitcoin space with an announcement Monday that he is now lending his name to Bitcoin wallets. The offering, run by Bitcoin Direct, LLC, a subsidiary of Connexus Corp., is said to bring consumers the first celebrity-endorsed mainstream digital wallet that allows the ...