Sentences with phrase «acquired by apple»

PrimeSense, an Israeli company acquired by Apple in 2013, created the tech that was eventually used in the Microsoft Kinect devices for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Bob Messerschmidt's company was acquired by Apple and Messerschmidt ended up working on the heart rate sensor for the Apple Watch.

With Beats Electronics on the verge of being acquired by Apple, details are emerging as to how the Cupertino giant could look to handle operations.

Viv Labs» founders also created Siri, before the digital assistant was acquired by Apple and integrated into iPhones and other devices.

Shazam was not the only contestant in this race of getting acquired by Apple since Spotify and Snap were equally fighting for the same.

More recently, he was early advisor to Acunu, one of the core developers of Cassandra, acquired by Apple.

(I'm not sure Dr. Dre or Jimmy Iovine, whose streaming service was acquired by Apple to develop Apple Music, would approve.)

IKEA was one of the first big clients of Metaio, an augmented reality startup quietly acquired by Apple back in 2015.

Financial analysts predicted a 40 percent chance that Netflix will be acquired by Apple.

Now coming to the facts, all the above stems from a recent patent acquired by Apple for a device which they are calling «Application Programming Interfaces for Scrolling Operations,» a term for a device that can interchange from a device with a standard tablet form factor to a tablet with the screen scrolling along to get fixed above the keypad.

On an amusing sidenote: Texas Instruments was one of the first investors in P.A. Semi, the fabless semiconductor company that was acquired by Apple in 2008, paving the way for the Curpertino consumer electronics giant to start manufacturing its own custom chips for products like the iPhone, iPod and iPad.

Mr. Khramov's was also the co-founder of Schema Software, which was acquired by Apple in 2005.

When Siri was acquired by Apple, he was a Director of Engineering in the iOS group.

Wen has worked as board director / observer — and sometimes as a co-founder — with the entrepreneurs at AEye, Ambiq Micro, Amprius, Amyris (AMRS), Bloom Energy, Crossbar, Desktop Metal, DJI, General Radar, LuxVue Technology (acquired by Apple), mCube, Motiv, Pavilion Data Systems, Qumulo, relayr, Ripcord, Shoof Technologies, Spatial Photonics (acquired by Himax Display), SpinLaunch, Tidal Systems (acquired by Micron Technology) and Voltafield.

During his tenure, he has served as lead investor in standout companies such as Roku, Uber, and Siri (acquired by Apple), and in IMVU and JUMP Bikes, more recently.

Topsy, a third - party social - analytics company acquired by Apple last December, unveiled a similar tweet library more than a year ago.

Financial analysts predicted a 40 percent chance that Netflix will be acquired by Apple.

Not exact matches

Before starting his company, he oversaw manufacturing and supply chain strategy at Apple and was an early member of the operations team of Nest, which was acquired by Google.

Sceptics, however, note that Amazon (AMZN) is also investing heavily in new content for its Amazon Prime Video service, and that it has far deeper pockets than Netflix will ever have, unless the latter gets acquired by someone like Apple or Disney.

And Andy Rubin, who now heads Google's Android phone business, worked as an Apple engineer before leaving to help create a series of start - ups, the most recent of which was acquired by Google in 2005.

«This is an entrepreneur who had two successful exits with hardware companies acquired by Texas Instruments and Apple,» said True Wealth Ventures General Partner Kerry Rupp.

Apple announced Tuesday (March 13) that it is acquiring Texture, a digital magazine subscription service owned by Next Issue Media.

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Any attempt by teams under the signing period restriction to acquire these players for > 300k is tantamount to allowing them a bite of an apple, that under the rules would not be allowed in the first place.

Universal acquires the Steve Jobs movie directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, with Michael Fassbender to play the Apple co-founder.

Apple today announced it signed an agreement to acquire Texture, the digital magazine subscription service by Next Issue Media LLC, which gives users unlimited access to their favorite titles for one monthly subscription fee.

Stromberg has held positions at a start - up called Hunch that was acquired by eBay and as an adviser at venture capital fund Founder Collective; Andrew Brown, another of the co-founders, has held positions at Google and Microsoft; and the third, Willem Van Lancker, has spent time at Google and Apple.

Digital comics Now that comiXology has been acquired by Amazon — and cut iTunes out of the picture — Tim Beyers speculates that Apple may step up its efforts to sell digital comics directly to readers.

DALLAS — About 200 works acquired by Dallas art collectors Patsy and Raymond Nasher — including Pablo Picasso's The Kiss and Roy Lichtenstein's Yellow Apple — will be auctioned off this month at Sotheby's in New York.

While we've focused on efforts of giants like Google, Apple and Amazon to dominate «smart home» devices, manufacturing giant Foxconn is making its entry by acquiring Belkin International to create a «global consumer electronics leader.»

Acquiring that exploit drove the government to pull back a court order, which would have compelled Apple to build software capable of disabling the iOS devices» security features, by effectively creating a backdoor for the iPhone.

Movie social network site Flixster, which was acquired by Warner last year, now has the only app for playing UltraViolet movies on both PC and Apple platforms.

One hurdle faced by the six tech companies hoping to acquire 6,000 mobile patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks has been cleared, as courts in both the U.S. and Canada have signed off on the $ 4.5 billion deal involving Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM).

Still no word yet on the possible merger with rival T - Mobile... Auto parts maker Delphi is buying autonomous car startup NuTonomy for $ 400 million... Overstock.com aims to hold the largest - yet initial coin offering, topping FileCoin's $ 257 million offering in August... Uber is adding a «long pickup fee» as part of an effort to make rides more attractive where drivers have to go a distance before starting the ride; the question is how it will go over with riders... AMD returned to profitability driven by sales of its Ryzen processor, per VentureBeat... Apple acquired New Zealand - based wireless charging firm PowerbyProxi for an undisclosed sum... TechCrunch reports that Honolulu has given final approval to a law that fines pedestrians who are looking at their phones while crossing a street.

According to a tweet sent out by CNBC, and a separate report published by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has acquired a company called Emotient.

The company has announced it's acquiring Viv Labs, a startup formed by the creators of Apple's Siri personal assistant, for an undisclosed amount of money.

Last year, Samsung acquired Viv Labs, an artificial intelligence company that was founded by the creators of Apple's Siri.

Earlier this year, Samsung acquired Viv Labs, a startup founded by the original creators of Apple's Siri, and it's assumed the new assistant will be based on their technology.

Just this past Sunday, The Times of Israel reported that a Tel Aviv, Israel - based cybertechnology startup was acquired by U.S. giant Apple Inc..

The profile was put together based off technology that was first implemented by LinX Imaging, which Apple acquired in 2015.

Apple has acquired Novauris Technologies, a group co-founded by Dr James Baker, a founder of Dragon Systems.

Well, it's a way in to the smart home market (IoT)... While we've focused on efforts of giants like Google, Apple and Amazon to dominate «smart home» devices, manufacturing giant Foxconn is making its entry by acquiring...

apple.slashdot.org - Apple has long sold Bose headphones and speakers in its retail stores, including in the time since it acquired Bose - competitor Beats Audio, and despite the lawsuit filed by Bose against Apple alleging patent violations on the part of Beats.

Some will purchase it to signal their wealth, many will acquire it as a totem of their Apple fandom, and almost all will desire it simply by virtue of its limited availability and exclusivity.

With the news that Apple has acquired popular headphone maker Beats for a whopping $ 3 Billion, Beats by Dre is officially now a topic of substance on iMore!

Apple SVP of global marketing Phil Schiller unfollowed the Twitter accounts of Nest Labs and its CEO Tony Fadell three days after the home - automation startup was acquired by Google for $ 3.2 billion.

Apple is facing another privacy concern, this time because it will be sharing the face - mapping data acquired by the iPhone X to third - party app developers.

iAd Apple has introduced iAd for developers, allowing them to replace AdMob, currently acquired by Google, inside of their applications.

Last year, Samsung acquired Viv Labs, an artificial - intelligence company that was founded by two of the people behind Apple's Siri.

Slashgear points out that these two sensors are similar to the ones found in the Microsoft Kinect camera for the Xbox, which was developed by PrimeSense, a company that Apple acquired in 2013.