Brandwatch is acquired by Cision for $450M, creating a PR, marketing and social listening giant
Online consumer intelligence and social media listening platform Brandwatch has been acquired by Cision, best known for its media monitoring and media contact database services, for $450 million, in a…
‘Slow dating’ app Once is acquired by Dating Group for $18M as it seeks to expand its portfolio
Five-year-old “slow dating” app Once has been acquired by the Dating Group, one of the largest companies in the dating world, for $18 million in cash and stock. Dating Group…
Facebook and Instagram’s AI-generated image captions now offer far more details
Every picture posted to Facebook and Instagram gets a caption generated by an image analysis AI, and that AI just got a lot smarter. The improved system should be a…
How Niantic evolved Pokémon GO for the year no one could go anywhere
Pokémon GO was created to encourage players to explore the world while coordinating impromptu large group gatherings — activities we’ve all been encouraged to avoid since the pandemic began. And…
Adobe brings over 20,000 design assets to Spark
Adobe is launching an update to its Spark social media design tool today that will bring more than 20,000 new design assets to the service. This update, which follows the…
Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google
Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, is taking on a new challenge — and it’s a doozy. Socher wants to fix…
Loop Team wants to give remote workers an in-office feel
As we’ve moved to work from home during the pandemic, it’s been challenging for remote workers to feel connected. Loop Team, a new entrant into the enterprise communications space, thinks…
3 reforms social media platforms should make in light of ‘The Social Dilemma’
Jason Morgese Contributor Jason Morgese is the founder and CEO of Leavemark, the first ad-free, data storage and social media hybrid. “The Social Dilemma” is opening eyes and changing digital…
Deep Science: Robot perception, acoustic monitoring, using ML to detect arthritis
Research papers come out far too rapidly for anyone to read them all, especially in the field of machine learning, which now affects (and produces papers in) practically every industry…
Deepfake video app Reface is just getting started on shapeshifting selfie culture
A bearded Rihanna gyrates and sings about shining bright like a diamond. A female Jack Sparrow looks like she’d be a right laugh over a pint. The cartoon contours of…