TechTaffy

tech:

taffy

Jawbone Goes Shopping, Buys Two Companies

By TechTaffy Desk

Jawbone[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Jawbone has acquired Visere and Massive Health. The Massive Health and Visere teams will join Jawbone’s existing workforce. The size of the acquisitions were not shared.

Visere is in the design space, and was founded in 2009. Visere specialties include user experience, user interaction, digital strategy, and application and services design and development, according to the company’s LinkedIn page. Visere collaborated with Jawbone to develop the user experience of their Up writstband.

Massive Health was started in 2010, and is led by former Firefox creative lead Aza Raskin. The company is in the healthcare technology space. Jawbone will continue to maintain Eatery, an app developed by Massive Health that lets users upload pictures of their food and let others rate how healthy it is.

[Image courtesy: Jawbone]

Just in

Industry

Tech giants urge EU to prioritize digital competitiveness and infrastructure investment

Five major technology companies - Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia, and Vodafone - called on European policymakers to take urgent action to boost Europe's digital competitiveness and keep it a priority for the incoming European Commission.
AI

Intel’s neuromorphic system has neuron capacity of an owl’s brain

Intel says it has built the world's largest neuromorphic computing system called Hala Point, that has the neuron capacity roughly equivalent to that of an owl brain.
AI

AMD launches AI chips for business PCs

AMD has announced new Ryzen PRO 8040 Series mobile processors and Ryzen PRO 8000 Series desktop processors with AI capabilities.
AI

Adobe previews generative AI features in Premiere Pro

Adobe has previewed generative AI features within its video editing software, Adobe Premiere Pro, aimed at streamlining video creation and production workflows.
AI

Covered California implements Google Cloud’s AI solutions

Covered California, California's health insurance marketplace, has announced that it will use Google Cloud's AI solutions to simplify the process of providing health insurance to California residents.