Google Acquires Eye Tracking Startup Eyefluence and its Technology
Google Glasses aren’t the only Heads up Display that Google will likely use or demonstrate. Imagine that Google acquired technology that let you use your gaze as a mouse, and tracked your eye movements to see what you are looking at. Google has acquired such technology. Google buys Eyefluence eye-tracking startup. Here is a pair […]
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Apple Augmented Reality Improved with Acquisition of Project Tango Collaborator Flyby Media
What does this acquisition of Flyby Media mean for Apple’s Efforts in developing Augmented Reality Devices and Media? I noticed this headline in the news this morning: Apple patent details visual-based AR navigation, confirms Flyby Media acquisition. The article tells us that augmented reality can be accomplished by using information from a phone such as … Continue reading Apple Augmented Reality Improved with Acquisition of Project Tango Collaborator Flyby Media →
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Yahoo Assigns 2648 Patents to Mystery Excalibur IP, LLC Group
Google is possibly most well known for the patenting of an algorithm that sorted and ordered search results based upon a metric known as PageRank, named after Google Co-Founder Lawrence Page, while he was a student at Stanford University. Yahoo started off as a Web Directory, which became a Search Engine, and the patent it … Continue reading Yahoo Assigns 2648 Patents to Mystery Excalibur IP, LLC Group →
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Google Acquires 55 Yahoo! Patent Filings
It was a surprise to see a number of Yahoo! patents listed in Google’s assignment database as having been assigned to Google. With news recently that Yahoo would be closing the Yahoo Directory, that seemed like a strategic choice. Now I’m wondering if we will ever see an independent Yahoo Search Engine ever again once […]
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Did Google acquire Game Maker and Distributor CiiNow?
Google was officially assigned the pending patent applications from CiiNow last Wednesday (August 27, 2014) in a transaction that was reported as being executed at the end of July. From searching through the USPTO, I don’t see any other patents assigned to CiiNow, so that appears to have been all they owned. The USPTO assignments […]
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Google Acquires Patent on Speeding up SSL on Networks
On August 6th, Google announced that https was becoming a ranking signal for Google Search. I’m not completely sure of the implications of a discovery I made earlier today yet, but I noticed at the USPTO assignment database that Google had been assigned a patent from AT&T in June, which was officially recorded on August […]
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Google’s Skybox Eye-in-the-Sky Acquisition
As part of the regular business analysis that I do on an ongoing basis, I like to keep an eye out for acquisitions made by search engines, and look at the technology that those companies being acquired have filed patents for. When I heard about Google’s acquisition of Skybox, I jumped to the assumption that […]
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Twitter’s New Patent Trove (943 Patents) from IBM
In November, Twitter disclosed in an amendment to its S1 filing that IBM was demanding licenses for three patents issued in 2006 that it claimed that Twitter was infringing upon. As far as we know, IBM didn’t file a lawsuit against Twitter, and this took place shortly before Twitter held its initial public offering. […]
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What Google Knows About You
Google knows a lot about you. Want to know what and how? Here’s how Google gathers information about you and your friends.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Digital
What Google Knows About You
With Wavii, Did Google Acquire the Future of Web Search?
Google acquired the company Wavii for a little more than $ 30 Million in April. There was some speculation that Wavii was an effort to match Yahoo’s purchase of Summly, which summarizes news from the Web.
A Wavii app did do just that – acquired and summarized news from the Web. When Wavii […]
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