Tell about paying the price for success. Facial recognition is a great technology especially for socially driven service like Facebook. One of the key elements in networking and building up your relationship with your friends is of course recognizing who they are, properly indexing them, properly listing them and all sorts of other basic housekeeping [...]
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Facebook buys Face.com facial recognition company
As we’ve reported earlier, Facebook was in acquisition talks with Face.com, a start up specializing in facial recognition software technology. In a post on its blog, Face.com has announced that Facebook has indeed pulled the trigger and bought the company. This is quite a momentous purchase for Facebook as it seeks to shore up its [...]
Facebook is considering buying out facial recognition company
Just fresh from its disappointing IPO, Facebook is looking to use its freshly minted billions to complete its photo strategy. It has already snapped up mobile photo sharing startup Instagram for a cool billion dollars. Now, it is eyeing other acquisitions that would round out its photo technology offerings. Given its fat pockets and what [...]
FTC Fishes for Info on Facial Recognition
Trade and consumer rights watchdog FTC is seeking comments from the public on what it thinks regarding the uses and implications of the new facial recognition technology in mobile apps, digital signs, and social networks. Prompted by a workshop it hosted early this month, the FTC would like some issues commented on and these are [...]