Mail.ru CEO Starts $25 Million Fund To Spark Personal Robotics Start-Ups
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Dmitry Grishin, founder of Grishin Robotics, believes that robots – personal robots, not boring ones like the Mars Rover – are the future.
“It has been very difficult to do something really big in robotics for the last 20 years. So much technology innovation has been web-based and with computers. It’s been very expensive and hard to do to build a prototype, never mind bringing it to market.”
“We can advance robots quickly and in a big way,” he said.
Girshin is the CEO of Mail.ru but studied robotics in college. His goal is to fund new research and products in the personal robotics space meaning home helper bots, cleaning systems, and drones. He belie[...]
Continue Reading“It has been very difficult to do something really big in robotics for the last 20 years. So much technology innovation has been web-based and with computers. It’s been very expensive and hard to do to build a prototype, never mind bringing it to market.”
“We can advance robots quickly and in a big way,” he said.
Girshin is the CEO of Mail.ru but studied robotics in college. His goal is to fund new research and products in the personal robotics space meaning home helper bots, cleaning systems, and drones. He belie[...]
The DeanBeat: Apple and Samsung give console makers a reprieve
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This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show had all the potential for disruption but none of the follow-through.
Always nipping at the edges of the game industry, Apple and Samsung have the means to exterminate the video game console makers. But for some reason, they have held back on pulling the trigger. Apple was rumored to be working on a television that could bring apps to the living room. Faced with free or 99 cent apps, would consumers still plunk down $60 for console games? Maybe not. But Apple didn’t announce its TV this week.
Samsung, meanwhile, announced its plans to become a cloud gaming service provider with the help of Gaikai and Nvidia. But[...]
Continue ReadingAlways nipping at the edges of the game industry, Apple and Samsung have the means to exterminate the video game console makers. But for some reason, they have held back on pulling the trigger. Apple was rumored to be working on a television that could bring apps to the living room. Faced with free or 99 cent apps, would consumers still plunk down $60 for console games? Maybe not. But Apple didn’t announce its TV this week.
Samsung, meanwhile, announced its plans to become a cloud gaming service provider with the help of Gaikai and Nvidia. But[...]
Social Aggregator RebelMouse’s First Week: 12K Sign-Ups, 8K Active Websites
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RebelMouse, the social media aggregator founded by former Huffington Post CTO Paul Berry, launched a little more than a week ago. We missed out on covering it (apparently because Berry’s email got lost in a vacationing reporter‘s inbox), but there was still a bunch of articles ? and more importantly, plenty of user sign-ups[...]
Continue ReadingAdColony hires Apple veteran to run fast-growing mobile video ad business (exclusive)
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AdColony has been on a tear growing its mobile video ad network business in the past two quarters. Now it’s positioning itself for more growth with the appointment of a new chief revenue officer from Apple.
Mike Owen formerly served as senior manager of Apple’s iAD business, leading a staff of 40 people in New York. His departure from Apple is interesting since it is a relatively rare career event and it speaks well of the company he is joining.
“I joined because I saw a great leadership team and a company solving one problem very well,” Owen said in an interview with GamesBeat. “The mobile ecosystem is cluttered, but their technology works and it keeps consumer[...]
Continue ReadingMike Owen formerly served as senior manager of Apple’s iAD business, leading a staff of 40 people in New York. His departure from Apple is interesting since it is a relatively rare career event and it speaks well of the company he is joining.
“I joined because I saw a great leadership team and a company solving one problem very well,” Owen said in an interview with GamesBeat. “The mobile ecosystem is cluttered, but their technology works and it keeps consumer[...]
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