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Tagboard, which helps cable giants and sports teams produce live content, lands $8M

GeekWire

Seattle-area startup Tagboard raised $8 million to boost its live production technology used by sports and entertainment companies. Founded in 2011, Tagboard launched more than a decade ago, helping teams such as the Seattle Mariners find and display fan social media content at their stadiums during games.

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

GeekWire

Tread Map is a map-based social media for outdoor recreation that is Waze meets Trip Advisor meets X. based, sells mobile chargers, audio, home entertainment, home security, robotic appliances, and more. for consumer, mobility, and industrial markets. The platform blends gamification with practical AI tool interactions.

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Vizio files to go public, has sold over 80 million TVs

The Verge

We will continue our successful hardware business, iterating on models as we’ve done before, and at the same time build our name in smart TV software,” Wang said. Instead, the TVs relied on “casting” content from entertainment apps on mobile devices. The S-1 begins with Wang recounting his surviving a plane crash.

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Techstars Seattle founders on navigating a shaky economy and their startup secret sauce

GeekWire

The pitch : A mobile app that connects to a user’s rowing machine for immersive training and racing. ” The secret sauce: “We’re trying to take a really playful approach to sport. The pitch : Sells a small piece of hardware that “unlocks” mobile apps to wean users off digital distractions.

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

And nobody in here, few people in here, think it’s acceptable to be tethered to a computer walking in here and sitting down, few people are going to view that it’s acceptable to be enclosed in something, because we’re all social people at heart. Even introverts are social people, we like people and we want to interact.

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Step by step into a droid future

Dataconomy

Picture yourself sporting a sleek smartwatch that not only tells time but acts as your personal assistant, delivering notifications, tracking your fitness, and even enabling quick payments on the go. Devices like the Xerox PARC ALTO, considered one of the first personal computers, showcased the potential for miniaturization and mobility.

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After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay

The Verge

And I have two kiddies, babies really, and there’s no social distancing you can do from a one-year-old and a two-year-old.”. Violet is the creation of Akara Robotics, a Dublin-based firm that builds robots providing social support in care homes. Thankfully I wasn’t critically unwell, but you do just feel like crap for weeks.

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