Modern voice user interfaces (VUI) are expected to recognize natural language in acoustically challenging environments. Interfering signals, such as TVs, simultaneous speakers, and environmental noise, negatively affect the performance. Therefore, the state of the art VUIs utilizes multi-microphone pre-processing modules […]
New research conducted by Toluna, a leading consumer intelligence platform that delivers insights on demand, and Harris Interactive, a full-service digital consultative market research agency, has revealed some interesting perceptions on the familiarity and use of new technologies by people […]
We wrote about MicroStrategy back in June 2019 when the Virginia-based provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software and services, sold one of its digital assets, Voice.com domain name to Block.One for $30 million. MicroStrategy is the largest independent publicly-traded business intelligence company, […]
NGD Systems, an Irvine, California-based cloud storage startup, has raised $20 million in series C funding to support and accelerate the production and deployment of the world’s first NVMe Computational Storage Drive that continues to enable artificial intelligence and machine learning within the […]
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University (SMU) announced the Seed Projects Aligning Research, Knowledge, and Skills (SPARKS) joint program, which aims to strengthen and cultivate long-term research collaboration between the organizations. Research […]
Lumos Diagnostics, an healthtech startup that helps develop and manufacture custom rapid Point-of-Care diagnostic solutions, has secured $15 million in Series A funding to support the international commercial expansion of the FebriDx rapid point-of-care (POC) test, the FebriDx U.S. FDA pivotal […]
floLIVE, a London, England-based startup that offers cloud-native global Connectivity Management Solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced a $21.5 million financing round to increase its presence in Europe, Asia and North America as well as accelerate its market awareness programs. […]
Orthofix Medical Inc., a global medical device company focused on musculoskeletal healing products, today announced an asset purchase agreement with Wittenstein SE, a privately-held German-based company, to acquire assets associated with the FITBONE® intramedullary lengthening system for limb lengthening of […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Tuesday, February 4, 2020. Makers of iPhone apps questioned in U.S. antitrust probe of Apple, report says. The U.S. Justice Department has reached out to app developers as part of […]
Nice! Google has informed some Google Photos users that their private videos may have been accidentally shared with strangers. Google apologized on Tuesday for accidentally sending some users’ private videos to strangers. The tech giant said it affected people who used Google […]
Emerge, an Arizona-based digital freight marketplace startup connecting shippers and carriers, has closed $20 Million Series A financing to grow its freight logistics platform allows shippers to find reliable truck capacity at optimized shipping rates. The round was led by NewRoad Capital Partners, a […]
Looking for best-in-class technology and functionality, AiRXOS partners with NUAIR and New York UAS Test Site for advanced unmanned aircraft operations. NUAIR and The New York UAS Test Site joins AiRXOS as an industry-leading partner, helping to scale and accelerate […]
The whole country watched the first presidential election caucus with the hope of seeing the election results at about 9:00PM Eastern Standard Time. To the surprise of many, there was no announcement from Iowa State Election officials. The results from […]
Leidos, a Reston, Virginia-based Fortune 500 information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services provider, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire L3Harris Technologies’ Security Detection and Automation businesses, for $1 billion in cash. The Boards of […]
We have covered Terra Drone multiple times at TechStartups. The Japan-based startup provides innovative enterprise drone services for oil and gas, utilities, renewables, mining, construction, and GIS sectors, among others. Today, a subsidiary of Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, is collaborating with […]
Dixa, the SaaS startup that offers a customer service platform delivering more personal and data-driven customer experiences, has closed $36 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is Notion Capital, with participation from existing investors Project A Ventures and […]
Late last year, we wrote about Securitize when the fintech startup creating compliant digital tokens on the blockchain acquired BUIDL to penetrate Japanese market. The startup has been making waves because of its underlying technology and also caught the attention of tech giants and […]
2Hire, the Italian Rome-based startup that turns all types of vehicles (cars, mopeds, electric bikes and scooters), into connected cars has scored a $6.19 million (€5,6 million) Series A investment round to keep revolutionizing connected mobility services. The investment round was […]
Nitrobox, a German software startup and a provider of a payment, billing and accounting digital platform, has closed a a financing round in the single-digit million euro range led by Porsche Ventures and Silicon Valley-based “NeueCapital Partners” fund. The company intends to use the […]
Cresta, an AI startup that was spun out of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence lab, announced it has closed $21 million in funding to enable office workers to be experts on day one. Backers for the funding include Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Andy […]