by admin | May 31, 2019 | Advertising Tech, Dennis Crowley, Enterprise, Exit, Foursquare, ITAD News, jeff glueck, Placed, Recent Funding, Snap, Startups, TC
Foursquare just made its first acquisition. The location tech company has acquired Placed from Snap Inc on the heels of a fresh $150 million investment led by the Raine Group. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Placed founder and CEO David Shim will become...
by admin | May 7, 2019 | articles, Artificial Intelligence, Azure machine learning, build, Build 2019, computing, cybernetics, Developer, Enterprise, ITAD News, learning, machine learning, Microsoft, microsoft-azure, ML, MS Build 2019, TC
Microsoft today announced three new services that all aim to simplify the process of machine learning. These range from a new interface for a tool that completely automates the process of creating models, to a new no-code visual interface for building, training and...
by admin | May 7, 2019 | Augmented Reality, computing, Developer, Enterprise, Hardware, head-mounted displays, hololens 2, ITAD News, Microsoft, microsoft hardware, Microsoft HoloLens, mixed reality, MS Build 2019, TC, unity, Windows 10
As part of its rather odd Thursday afternoon pre-Build news dump, Microsoft today announced the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. The company announced the much-improved HoloLens 2 at MWC Barcelona earlier this year, but it’s not shipping to developers yet. Currently,...
by admin | May 7, 2019 | Advertising Tech, Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, conference call, data privacy, Data Security, dating, Developer, eCommerce, Enterprise, Entertainment, Events, Extra Crunch Conference Call, Facebook, Facebook Dating, facebook groups, Facebook Marketplace, facebook messenger, Facebook Watch, Gadgets, Gaming, Hardware, investment opportunities, ITAD News, marketplace, Media, Oculus, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, Privacy, Security, Social, Startups, TC, transcript, Venture Capital, Virtual Reality, WhatsApp
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference...
by admin | May 7, 2019 | Augmented Reality, computing, databases, Developer, edge computing, Enterprise, ITAD News, Julia White, Microsoft, microsoft-azure, MS Build 2019, SQL, TC
Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database in the cloud to edge computing devices, including, for the first time,...
by admin | May 7, 2019 | Apps, chat, Enterprise, F8 2019, Facebook, facebook messenger, Facebook Messenger bots, ITAD News, Mobile, Social, TC
To win chat, Facebook Messenger must be as accessible as SMS, yet more entertaining than Snapchat. Today, Messenger pushes on both fronts with a series of announcements at Facebook’s F8 conference. Those include that it will launch Mac and PC desktop apps, a faster...