Category: closing

Google shutters Bulletin, its hyperlocal news experiment

Post author By Randall
Post date September 26, 2019
Categories In app, bulletin, business, closing, gear, Google, google news initiative, hyperlocal, Internet, journalism, local news, News, pilot, reporting, shutting down, Tech

[ad_1] Google is ending its hyperlocal news experiment Bulletin. Similar to Nextdoor, Bulletin was a blog-like service that allowed users to post stories with video and photo content to the app. People nearby could see those posts, and they could appear in Google Search. The service launched as a pilot in 2018, and now, Google […]

Another AR headset startup closes its doors

Post author By Randall
Post date September 13, 2019
Categories In Apple, Ar, assets, Augmented Reality, business, closing, daqri, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, hardware, headset, Microsoft, selling, startup, Tech

[ad_1] At one point, the Wall Street Journal reported that Daqri had raised as much as $275 million in funding. But according to TechCrunch, investors have caught on to the technical difficulties of creating AR headsets and are less interested in funding AR startups. Earlier this year, the AR headset startup Meta, which had raised […]

Anki is closing the doors on its toy robot business

Post author By Randall
Post date April 29, 2019
Categories In anki, boris sofman, business, closing, cosmo, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, robotics, Robots, startup, Tech, vector, venture capital

[ad_1] The news comes as a surprise, given that things seemed to be going well for Anki. Since its launch in 2010, the startup has raised more than $200 million in venture capital. Its main products Cozmo and Vector seemed to be successes. Vector launched last fall after a $2 million Kickstarter campaign, and most […]