{"id":914043,"date":"2025-03-13T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=914043"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:58:20","slug":"google-is-planning-to-buy-a-startup-that-facebook-wanted-to-in-2022-and-is-now-funded-by-samsung-intel-hp-and-rayban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/13\/google-is-planning-to-buy-a-startup-that-facebook-wanted-to-in-2022-and-is-now-funded-by-samsung-intel-hp-and-rayban\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is planning to buy a startup that Facebook wanted to in 2022; and is now funded by Samsung, Intel, HP and RayBan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google is in reportedly in the final stages of acquiring AdHawk Microsystems Inc, a Canadian developer of eye-tracking technology, for $115 million, signaling a renewed push into headsets and smart glasses, according to sources familiar with the deal. Incidentally, Google is a pioneer of smart glasses technology, releasing a device called Google Glass more than a decade ago. Google launched several iterative versions of Google Glasses. In fact, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were also spotted wearing Google Glasses on a few occasions. However, the gadget wasn\u2019t never a big seller and Google finally discontinued it two years ago. Google is said to be now aiming for a resurgence in the smart glasses market, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google is in reportedly in the final stages of acquiring AdHawk Microsystems Inc, a Canadian developer of eye-tracking technology, for $115 million, signaling a renewed push into headsets and smart glasses, according to sources familiar with the deal. Incidentally, Google is a pioneer of smart glasses technology, releasing a device called Google Glass more than a decade ago. Google launched several iterative versions of Google Glasses. In fact, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were also spotted wearing Google Glasses on a few occasions. However, the gadget wasn\u2019t never a big seller and Google finally discontinued it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}