Technology

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 […]

The post Alibaba acquires German big data startup Data Artisans for $103M appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

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, […]

The post Scape Technologies raises $8M to let machines visually understand their surroundings appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

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. […]

The post How Chinese and American gamers differ appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

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 […]

The post Lora DiCarlo says CES wrongly rescinded award for micro-robotic sex toy appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

Apple isn’t the only smartphone maker steeling itself (and analysts) for disappointing results. Samsung Electronics issued earnings guidance for the final quarter of 2018 today that not only marks its first quarterly profit decline in two years, but also fell far below analysts’ expectations. The company attributed the drop to lower-than-expected demand for its memory […]

The post Samsung warns of Q4 profit drop, blames unexpectedly low semiconductor demand appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

We may have passed the peak of the “patent war” in the mobile industry, but the concept of patents as power is far from disappearing, since they continue to be a strong marker for how a company is breaking new ground in technology, and do sometimes help to safeguard an inventor’s or company’s original work […]

The post IBM was awarded the most patents in 2018, but overall grants declined by 3.5 percent appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

Nuvyyo, the makers of the Tablo OTA DVR aimed at cord cutters who want to watch and record live TV, just gave their DVR a big upgrade. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company launched a redesigned DVR called the Tablo Quad, a four-tuner DVR that now offers the option for an […]

The post Tablo’s new DVR for cord cutters skips the commercials for you appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

Coinbase is preparing to list a lot of new coins this year, but its first major piece of action in 2019 is to temporarily pause one of its existing portfolio. The exchange said it has stopped all trading on Ethereum Classic — a cryptocurrency it added back in August — after it detected an attack […]

The post Coinbase freezes Ethereum Classic trading following attack appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

Coinbase is preparing to list a lot of new coins this year, but its first major piece of action in 2019 is to temporarily pause one of its existing portfolio. The exchange said it has stopped all trading on Ethereum Classic — a cryptocurrency it added back in August — after it detected an attack […]

The post Coinbase freezes Ethereum Classic trading following attack appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.

Toyota Research Institute had a breakthrough last year in its pursuit to make driving safer. It was so profound that Toyota wants to open up to other automakers. The inspiration was modern-day fighter jets, which use a low-level flight control system to translate the intent of the pilot and keep the aircraft stable and tucked […]

The post Toyota is developing fighter jet-inspired safety features for cars and wants to share it appeared first on RocketNews | Top News Stories From Around the Globe.