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Intel and the IOC ink 7-year Olympics tech deal for VR, drones and more

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Intel has been targeting the sports industry as part of its bigger push into emerging technologies (and finding customers for the resulting new services), and today the company announced its latest play in that area. Intel has signed [...]

Ebay will now match Amazon’s, Walmart’s and others’ prices on over 50,000 items

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

As Amazon and Walmart continue their battle to become the world’s largest retailer, another longtime rival in the e-commerce business, eBay, is now stepping up its game as well. The company this morning announced a new Price Match [...]

MyTutor raises £3M Series A led by Mobeus to attack UK tutor market

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The online tutoring market in the US is well-developed. Varsity Tutors raised $50m; Wiseant $20m; Tutor.com sold to IAC and InstaEdu was recently bought out. So it makes sense that this model would be big in other markets. [...]

SEGA’s new SEGA Forever collection brings classic games to mobile for free

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

SEGA is bringing some of your favorite games to mobile in new, free-to-play formats that include ads as a way to drive revenue, support offline play and other more modern features like cloud saves. The games can also [...]

Andreessen Horowitz Gets a New General Partner in Jorge Conde

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Andreessen Horowitz is making an even bigger push into healthcare IT, bringing aboard serial entrepreneur Jorge Conde as a general partner. Conde, who officially starts in September, has spent the last 15 years working largely in genomics, including [...]

Intel steps up security efforts in Israel with Team8, Illusive and a new cyber center

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Israel is one of the world’s centers for cybersecurity technology, and today Intel is announcing a trio of developments in the region to help it take better advantage of that. The company is embarking on two new collaborations [...]

Petasense emerges from stealth to help companies monitor machine health

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Industrial IoT startup Petasense emerged from stealth today, officially announcing $1.8 million in seed funding and a hardware/software solution designed to help industrial customers understand when equipment needs maintenance by “listening” to its vibrations. As it turns out, [...]

Fleet management tracking provider Samsara raises $40M

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Rapid changes in the shipping industry has caught the attention of investors who are starting to pour large sums of money into the industry. And likely for good reason: as a future where trucks are run autonomously becomes [...]

Mic adds $6.5M from WPP to build out its news brand for millennials

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Millennials remain a hot target for digital marketing and advertising, and so perhaps unsurprisingly, a startup building news and other publishing services targeted specifically at that demographic has raised some money from one of the world’s biggest ad [...]