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Virtual reality collaboration platform Avatour raises $2.9M in seed funding
The virtual reality telepresence platform Avatour today announced it has raised $2.9 million in a seed funding round led by Ulu Ventures. Avatour allows a host to use a low-cost 360-degree mobile camera onsite to broadcast video to up to 20 remote guests, who can then view the scene in immersive virtual or augmented reality ...
At Google I/O, Firebase gets new emulation, app security, extensions and more
Firebase, Google LLC’s platform for creating mobile and web applications, today received a number of new features aimed at helping developers stay ahead of the game, including a Storage Emulation suite, app security with App Check, more extensions, crash reporting and more. The first announcement is that Cloud Storage for Firebase has joined the Emulator ...
At I/O, Google debuts Android 12 beta with new design, Wear OS and more
Android 12, the Google LLC mobile operating system now used in some 3 billion active devices worldwide, today debuted in beta test mode with a new design, developer tools and updates to the Android-based WearOS software for wearable devices. The updates came today at the virtual but live Google I/O 2021 developer conference, where the company ...
Animoca Brands raises $88M to allow in-game item ownership with NFTs
Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands, a company that seeks to deliver digital property rights to gamers via nonfungible tokens, today announced it raised $88 million in capital on a valuation of $1 billion. The company has brought together a number of NFT-based and distributed ledger blockchain game companies, including The Sandbox, Quidd, Gamee, nWay, Pixowl and ...
Niantic expands its AR tools and developer platform with Lightship
Niantic Inc., the developer of the augmented reality game “Pokemon GO,” announced Tuesday that it’s renaming the Niantic Real World Platform to Niantic Lightship and opening access to the platform with a private beta that includes an Augmented Reality Developer Kit. The ARDK will enable developers to build immersive and imaginative AR applications that use cameras ...
DrFirst raises $50M to enhance its telehealth and recordkeeping capabilities
Health technology company DrFirst today announced the company has raised $50 million in equity investment from Sixth Street Growth, the growth investing platform of Sixth Street. This follows a previous $35 million investment from Sixth Street and an additional $50 million from Goldman Sachs Growth, both in 2020. The company launched its solution in 2000 ...
ServiceNow to acquire DevOps observability platform Lightstep
ServiceNow Inc. today announced plans to acquire LightStep, a DevOps observability platform Lightstep Inc. to expand its monitoring capabilities for cloud-native applications. ServiceNow is a workflow automation platform for optimizing productivity for information technology and operations, with the addition of LightStep, DevOps engineers will gain deep systematic observability capabilities to detect problems before they affect ...
Crowdsourced expert NFT appraisal outfit Upshot raises $7.5M
Upshot, a distributed ledger blockchain protocol that pays experts to give opinions on nonfungible token appraisals, today announced that the company has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding to expand its operations. This round was co-led by Framework Ventures, CoinFund, Blockchain Capital and others. The rise of NFTs, which exist as cryptographic tokens on ...
LogDNA adds browser logging for DevOps teams for web app debugging
LogDNA, a log management solution for DevOps teams, today extended its browser logging capability, which will give developers visibility into the front end and thus more easily debug web apps. The new feature, called Browser Logger, is generally available within its platform with web app integration. As more and more applications run on web clients ...
Red Hat unveils Developer Sandbox for OpenShift to power Kubernetes app development
Red Hat Inc., provider of open-source solutions, today announced the launch of Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift, an OpenShift-based development environment that will give organizations the ability to prototype Kubernetes-based applications rapidly. The OpenShift sandbox is a private environment in a shared, multitenant cluster already configured with a set of developer tools, so that ...