Polar Rose

http://www.polarrose.com/

Last activity: 27.07.2011

Probably Closed

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Overview

Location

Sweden, Malmo

Employees

11-50

Mentions in press and media 18

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Jan 17, 2011	Report: iPhone 5 will be “Completely Redesigned”	This summer, Apple is expected to launch its next iPhone, and new reports describe it as a “completely redesigned handset” as well as a “total rethink from a design standpoint.” To start, the iPhone 5’s internals will be different – the dev...
Sep 20, 2010	Apple acquires face-recognition firm Polar Rose	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Apple has reportedly bought Swedish face-recognit...
Sep 20, 2010	Apple acquires face-recognition firm Polar Rose	Apple has reportedly bought Swedish face-recognition firm Polar Rose. I met with Polar Rose in its early days when it was talking about a unique approach to recognizing faces. Some inefficient recognition engines would compare pixels in pic...
Sep 20, 2010	UPDATED: Apple buys Polar Rose for a rumoured $29 million	Polar Rose, a Malmö, Sweden startup which built a very interesting facial recognition programme which hooked into Facebook photos, has been bought by Apple, according to Swedish media. The 15-person company was previously majority owned by ...
Aug 30, 2010	Polar Rose Shuts Down Its Flickr/Facebook Facial Recognition Service	Polar Rose, a Swedish-based facial recognition startup launched in summer 2007, is shutting down its consumer-facing service that allowed users to tag people in photos anywhere on the Web. Last spring, the innovative company introduced faci...
Mar 1, 2010	Android app can recognize a person, pull up his status updates	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Imagine you’re at a conference and want to know something about the people around you. A new mobile application called Recognizr can id...
Mar 1, 2010	Android app can recognize a person, pull up his status updates	Imagine you’re at a conference and want to know something about the people around you. A new mobile application called Recognizr can identify a person’s face via your phone camera and deliver not only profile information about that person b...
Oct 8, 2009	Polar Rose Now Supports Photo Tagging On The Biggest Of Them All: Facebook	Earlier this year, Polar Rose got some headlines when it applied its nifty photo tagging technology to Flickr, one of the most popular image sharing services on the Web. Cleverly, it used Facebook Connect as a way to identify people that we...
Aug 7, 2009	Prepare Yourselves: Augmented Reality Hype on the Rise	Augmented reality — or the addition of a layer to the world before your eyes (aka the “real world”) using technology — is the next big tech trend. Already making its debut in everything from mobile apps to kids toys, “AR” will clearly soon ...
Apr 8, 2009	Polar Rose Combines Facebook Connect With Facial Recognition Technology To Tag Photos On Flickr	Polar Rose, a photo tagging startup we wrote about during its private launch, has released a new version of its application that lets you name and tag people in your photos on your Flickr account using your Facebook contacts. Polar Rose wil...
Jan 5, 2009	Visual search engine Superfish nets $5.3M	Superfish, a stealthy startup that will eventually let users search by sight, reeled in $5.3 million in second-round financing. The Palo Alto, Calif. company has been in research mode for a couple of years and plans to launch the service in...
May 26, 2008	The Seeds Of a Good Idée: TinEye Image Search (500 Invites)	Image search is a hard problem. That is especially true when you are searching with no information other than the image itself (no tags, titles, or descriptions, just the photo). I’ve seen my fair share of image search demos, and they usual...
Aug 9, 2007	Polar Rose Debuts At Gnomedex	Polar Rose, a European startup that has a unique approach to recognizing faces in photos (remember Riya?), is having a bit of a pre-launch coming out party at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle today. We first wrote about the company last D...
Dec 19, 2006	Polar Rose wants to recognize faces in web photos	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Swedish startup Polar Rose today took the wraps off of their plan to make faces in photos searchable. Searching within images h...
Dec 19, 2006	Polar Rose: Europe's Entrant Into Facial Recognition	Malmö, Sweden based Polar Rose is having its coming out party today and pre-announcing a product release slated for early next year. CEO Nikolaj Nyholm gave me demo of what’s coming last weekend. Polar Rose is trying to solve the increasing...
Dec 19, 2006	Image search race: Polar Rose, Pixsy, Snap, Ookles, Riya — list is getting long	Google and Yahoo have image and video search, but they’ve kept things to themselves, oddly not syndicating these for other sites to use like they have with their text search engines. No doubt, they will do so soon. Meantime, a host of speci...
Dec 11, 2006	Xcavator joins race in visual search	Visual search technology is still in its infancy, but a number of new start-ups are pushing the possibilities forward — the latest being Xcavator. Riya’s Like launched recently (see our coverage), giving users a way of highlighting a shoe, ...

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Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning Polar Rose, among them “Report: iPhone 5 will be “Completely Redesigned”” (Jan 17, 2011) and “Apple acquires face-recognition firm Polar Rose” (Sep 20, 2010).

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Polar Rose is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 27, 2011.