by Asmawisham | May 2, 2017 | Technology
Equinix, an international data center company based in Redwood City, California, announced today that it had completed the purchase of 29 data centers from Verizon for $3.6 billion. The deal was announced in December.Verizon owns AOL, which owns TechCrunch. The...
by Asmawisham | May 2, 2017 | Media, Technology
Awesomeness, the digital media company programming content for a young, YouTube-obsessed audience, is getting into news. The company announced a new project called Awesomeness News at its NewFronts presentation today in New York. The editorial brand will focus on...
by Asmawisham | May 2, 2017 | Technology
Beleaguered blood diagnostics startup Theranos has reached a settlement with hedge fund management firm Partner Fund Management.PFM invested $96.1 million in Theranos’ Series C-2 round in 2014, helping to pop the company up to a $9 billion valuation. However, the...
by Asmawisham | May 2, 2017 | Technology
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by Asmawisham | May 2, 2017 | Technology
Between Thumbtack, Yelp, Angie’s List, and Amazon, it wouldn’t appear that the world needs a new platform that matches customers with service professionals. That’s not the way that Julio Vasconcellos sees it, clearly. Vasconcellos has spent the last year-plus working...
by Asmawisham | May 2, 2017 | Technology
The graphical fidelity of games these days is truly astounding, but one thing their creators struggle to portray is the variety and fluidity of human motion. An animation system powered by a neural network drawing from real motion-captured data may help make our...