Category: Vendors & Products

June 28, 2018

HTC and China Mobile Communications Corporation today jointly announced a partnership to “accelerate the proliferation of 5G infrastructure and devices in China.” Further, China Mobile, the country’s massive state-owned mobile phone carrier, will help HTC push its VR devices into […]

June 18, 2018

Flipgrid counts more than 20 million educators, students and families in 180 countries as its customers, according to Microsoft. The Minneapolis, Minn.-based company was founded in 2015. Flipgrid’s service lets students create and share videos publicly or privately from iOS […]

May 21, 2018

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced that Verizon Communications has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider. Verizon is migrating over 1,000 business-critical applications and database backend systems to AWS, several of which also include the migration of production […]

May 14, 2018

Google is set to acquire enterprise cloud migration provider Velostrata, citing the Israel-based company’s ‘technical strength’ as key alongside potential capabilities for their customers around advanced data analytics and machine learning. Velostrata’s primary goal is to speed up enterprise’s cloud […]

May 4, 2018

Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa has been opened up to all developers to generate cash through add-ons and premium content in the virtual assistant’s ‘skills’. In-skill purchasing will allow developers to charge for premium content and features within an Alexa skill, […]

April 16, 2018

Cisco is updating its AMP endpoint security platform with new email security services, and expanded capabilities designed to protect employee devices from ransomware, cryptomining, and fileless malware. AMP for Endpoint combines prevention, detection and response technologies using Cisco’s threat-centric security […]

February 16, 2018

On Wednesday, VMware made its latest move to continue the build out of its multi-cloud and security story with the acquisition announcement of cloud configuration and management startup, CloudCoreo, a small Seattle-based company founded in July of 2016 with less […]

January 19, 2018

IBM and Salesforce announced Friday an expansion of their strategic partnership that brings more data integration to companies so they can better interact with customers. Under the extended partnership, IBM will build a Watson app for Salesforce’s Quip Live Apps, […]

November 22, 2017

Citing sources close to the deal, TechCrunch reports that VR headset maker Vrvana has been acquired by Apple for $30 million. Vrvana is a little known VR headset maker that’s been on the scene since 2014. The company was building […]

November 8, 2017

Apple’s ARKit marks the start of a long journey for the company’s work with augmented reality technology, but the long-rumored AR headset the company may be working on may still be years away from release. A new report from Bloomberg […]

November 7, 2017

Meet the cloud’s newest strategic partners: Salesforce and Google. The two companies announced a deal at Dreamforce late yesterday, with Google Cloud becoming Salesforce’s preferred public cloud provider alongside new product integrations. There were four primary integrations announced. Salesforce Lightning […]

October 30, 2017

Blink and you might have missed it—a lot has happened in the VR landscape in the last few months. At Oculus Connect, the company’s annual developer conference, we got fresh insight into where Oculus is heading, and a new look […]