Microsoft focusing on IoT, acquires Express Logic Microsoft has continued its search for excellence by acquiring Express Logic, a company that makes software for embedded devices. The San Diego company has developed a real-time operating system (RTOS). Which is aimed at controlling the growing number of IoT devices in the world. The price of the deal remains undisclosed for now. Microsoft has been focusing on generating revenue...
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How is blockchain revolutionising the supply chain industry? Have you ever wondered where the phone that you are reading this came from? Or the clothes that you buy or the food that you eat? Besides the shops that you go to, there’s a whole other chain of different interlinked elements that work on delivering these products to you. This connected chain is called as Supply Chain. Consider...
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Lyft goes public, closes at 9% on day one Lyft’s IPO celebrations were all pink and colourful on Friday the 29th of March in Los Angeles. Co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer initiated the bell ringing ceremony. The premier stock offering saw an astonishing day one as share price raised to $87.24 on Friday morning. This was 21 percent higher than Lyft’s initial $72 share price....
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Sofar Ocean Technologies raises $7 million Sofar Ocean Technologies is a new startup formed as a result of a merger. Underwater drone maker OpenROV and sea sensor developer Spoondrift joined hands to explore the ocean beyond mankind’s reach. The Series A round was led by SolarCity co-founder Peter Rive who wants to help the scientific community explore deep down under. What’s the vision behind the merger? OpenROV and...
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TikTok is growing rapidly, acquires GeoGif Tiktok, the video editing app has been the go to app for editing and sharing videos. It has passed 1 billion downloads last month and it has a lot more in store. ByteDance is the parent company that owns TikTok, it acquired a startup called GeoGif, which developes location-specific, animated stickers and overlays for videos, suggesting these to users when...
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Now share with Mozilla Firefox send Mozilla has introduced Firefox Send, an encrypted file-transfer service. Debuted as a “Test Pilot” experiment back in 2017, Firefox send is now officially available for public. It is an alternative to email where sending a larger file attachment is difficult. What does Firefox Send do? With Firefox Send a web user can share files up to 2.5 GB in size through the...
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