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Looks like there’s more to those rain-soaked, coffee-swilling, hemp-loving, Birkenstock-wearing, left-of-center-leaning, alt-music scenesters in Seattle than, well, all that stuff we just listed. Turns out Seattle’s tech scene is pretty hardcore, too. Yeah, yeah, we knew that, right? Still, investors have offered their own sort of benediction by making two Seattle companies the most valuable […]

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Looks like there’s more to those rain-soaked, coffee-swilling, hemp-loving, Birkenstock-wearing, left-of-center-leaning, alt-music scenesters in Seattle than, well, all that stuff we just listed. Turns out Seattle’s tech scene is pretty hardcore, too. Yeah, yeah, we knew that, right? Still, investors have offered their own sort of benediction by making two Seattle companies the most valuable […]

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wants to change the way the world sleeps, and to that end, the company is teaming up with Dr. Oz to raise awareness about the need for a good night’s sleep. makes what it calls the world’s most accurate, non-contact sleep monitoring technology and curated store of sleep products. It is launching its “Amp Your […]

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wants to change the way the world sleeps, and to that end, the company is teaming up with Dr. Oz to raise awareness about the need for a good night’s sleep. makes what it calls the world’s most accurate, non-contact sleep monitoring technology and curated store of sleep products. It is launching its “Amp Your […]

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After a successful holiday season, Sony’s PlayStation 4 is nearing some pretty wild milestones. The company announced Monday that they had sold over 5.6 million PS4 units over the holiday season worldwide, bringing the total number of current-gen consoles sold to 91.6 million, a number that suggests the popular console is still vibrant even after five […]

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Can’t find your car keys? Misplaced your luggage? , and there’s only one way to describe the feeling: utter frustration. Slovenia-basedwants to ensure you never feel that way again, and to aid in its stress-reducing quest, it’s launching a new tracker: the Chipolo Go. The water-resistant Go, which Chipolo detailed at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in […]

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Alibaba has paid €90 million ($103 million) to acquire Data Artisans, a Berlin-based startup that provides distributed systems and large-scale data streaming services for enterprises. The deal was first announced by European media, including EU-Startups, before being confirmed by both Alibaba and Data Artisans through blog posts. Data Artisans was founded in 2014 by the team leading […]

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Scape Technologies, a London-based computer vision startup, is de-cloaking today to announce that it has raised $8 million in seed fund and launching the first iteration of its “Visual Positioning Service,” which lets developers build apps that require location accuracy far beyond the capabilities of GPS alone. The technology will initially target augmented reality apps, […]

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Since the beginning of 2018, Quantic Foundry and have been working together on a series of survey-based projects. Niko Partners is a market research and consulting firm covering the games markets in Asia. In one of these projects, we used the as part of a larger study to create a player segmentation of Chinese gamers. […]

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The team at was overjoyed when it received a letter from the Consumer Technology Association saying its Osé “sex positive” micro-robotic sex toy had won a CES Innovation Award, giving the company a chance to showcase itself at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. But Lora Haddock, founder of the […]

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