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Gene Munster's Apple 'Mixed Reality' Thesis Is Already Playing Out
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 3:47pm | 384Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster joined Benzinga's PreMarket Prep on Wednesday morning and shared some color on Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s first quarter results, including the earnings beat, the revenue miss and the poor iPhone, iPad and Mac sales. After going over the fundamental...
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Google Partners With Lowe's For New DIY Tools
Friday, January 15, 2016 - 9:14am | 429Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has partnered with home improvement retailer Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) to debut a new mapping technology that will make home makeovers faster and easier. The two say the technology will be ready and available by this summer, the...
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Qualcomm-Backed Matterport Raises $30 Million To Enhance Virtual Reality
Friday, June 26, 2015 - 7:41am | 806Matterport, a company that specializes in developing 3D models of rooms using software and a special 3D camera, is about to add a bit of reality to virtual reality. The company was one of the first developers to work with Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) on Project Tango. Now Matterport has announced...
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Apple Turns To Israel Yet Again For Its Latest Acquisition
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 9:35am | 291In 2011, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) acquired Israeli-based flash memory design firm Anobit. Two years later, the company acquired acquired Israeli-based 3D Sensor PrimeSense. On Tuesday, Apple acquired its third Israeli company – LinX. LinX develops and markets miniature cameras for tablets and...
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Google's Project Tango Could Define The Future Of Augmented Reality
Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 11:29am | 599Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Project Tango could define the future of augmented reality, and its newest partner hopes to make that happen. The search engine giant has partnered with PMDTechnologies (stylized as 'pmdtechnologies'), a Siegen, Germany-based developer of 3D...
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Matterport CEO Bill Brown Discusses Google's Project Tango, Mobile Innovation And More
Friday, March 28, 2014 - 12:00pm | 1081Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Project Tango proved to be a one-of-a-kind initiative aimed at bringing room-mapping, 3D sensor technology to mobile devices. After starting Project Tango, Google gave one of its early devices to Matterport, a company that specializes in developing 3D models of rooms...