Apple acquires Sweden’s Polar Rose; UK’s Imsense

“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,” Mike Butcher reports for TechCrunch.

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“Neither Apple nor the company is commenting,” Butcher reports. “However, we have rock-solid sources that say the company went for $22 million.”

Butcher reports, “It now looks like Polar Rose’s technology it poised to enter the Mac and the iPhone. Apple has also acquired UK imaging company Imsense for similar purposes.”

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