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Draper Nexus closes $175 million fund, LP’s include Panasonic, Canon and other Japanese tech giants
Early stage venture firm, Draper Nexus, has closed its second fund at $175 million, according to Managing Director Q Motiwala. Its debut fund closed in 2013, at $50 million. Limited partners in Draper
4K Hitachi TVs with Roku built-in are coming to a Sam’s Club near you
You could buy a TV and a Roku player, or you could just go crazy and buy a TV with Roku OS built in. A small handful of TV manufacturers have jumped on the Roku TV train already, including Sharp, Hise
If you’re flying via Haneda Airport, you can now ask this robot for directions
Robots are friends! Or at least, at Haneda Airport if you see one of the little buddies above, you can feel confident approaching it and ask it for help. The Hitachi EMIEW3 humanoid robot begins its f
How Hardware-as-a-Service will save IoT
Here’s the dirty little secret about the Internet of Things: The things might not work, and you might not use them. As a consumer, many of your gadgets will collect dust tucked away in a drawer. As
Tapping Into The Emotional Internet
Wearables currently decipher physiological biometrics -- heart rate, pulse, caloric intake. But in the coming years, we’ll see emotion-sensing wearable technology that clues us into specific human e
Hitachi And Mitsubishi Stop Domestic Production Of TVs, Optical Discs
Two big Japanese electronics companies, namely <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/hitachi">Hitachi</a> and <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/mitsubishi">Mitsubishi</a>, are to stop produc
Japan Display, Inc.: Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi Finalize Deal To Merge Display Units
The deal has been in the <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2011/06/29/hitachi-wants-to-join-toshiba-and-sony-in-lcd-maker-mega-merge/">making</a> <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/son
Hitachi Updates Its Amazing Naked-Eye 3D Display Technology
The <a href="http://www.ceatec.com/2011/en/">CEATEC 2011</a> exhibition in Japan is just one day away, and Hitachi is already showing one of its coolest products: the company has been working on glass
Hitachi Develops Low-Cost, High-Quality 4.5-Inch LCDs For Phones
Back in February this year, Hitachi Displays <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/hitachi-to-offer-improved-smartphone-lcd-display/">took the wraps off</a> a super-advanced LCD for smartpho
Sony, Hitachi And Toshiba Make Their LCD Business Merger Official
<a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/sony-hitachi-and-toshiba-to-merge-operations-for-small-and-mid-sized-lcds/">Yesterday</a>, we reported about <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/so
Sony, Hitachi And Toshiba To Merge Operations For Small And Mid-Sized LCDs
Quite big news from <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/sony/">Sony</a>, <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/hitachi">Hitachi</a>, and <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/toshiba">Toshi
P50-GP08: Hitachi’s Last (?) Flagship TV Can Be Controlled Via iPad/iPhone
Just last week, <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/hitachi">Hitachi</a> decided to <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2011/08/03/hitachi-to-stop-producing-tvs-by-year-end/">pull the plug</a> o
Hitachi To Stop Producing TVs By Year-End
After <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/pioneer">Pioneer</a> decided to <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2009/03/24/pioneer-gives-up-no-more-kuro-plasma-tvs-from-may/">shut down</a> its TV
Hitachi Develops 4.5-Inch, Naked-Eye 3D LCD Screen With HD Resolution
Hitachi <a href="http://www.hitachi-displays.com/news/20110720.html">announced</a> [JP] a new mobile <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/3d/">3D</a> screen today: the IPS-based LCD is sized at a
Hitachi Wants To Join Toshiba And Sony In LCD-Maker Mega-Merge
While the nuances of this enormous, enormous business deal are certainly lost on this poor tech blogger, I thought it worthwhile to mention that three major Japanese tech companies are considering mer
Hitachi Releases G-Connect Wireless Storage For iPad
It’s nice to have a few hundred gigabytes in your bag and when the first guys to the wireless hard drive party, Seagate, released the Satellite, they piqued my interest by allowing those gigabyt
Hitachi Announces First USB 3.0 External Drives, Bundled With Personal Cloud Space
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (which was just <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/07/hitachi-gst-sold
Hitachi Announces "World's Smallest And Lightest" Short-Focus Projectors
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Hitachi <a href="http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/cnews/month/2011/04/0418a.html">announced</a> [JP] the CP-A300NJ
Hitachi Announces 500GB iVDR (A Portable HDD Cart)
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Never heard of <a href="http://www.ivdr.org/en/index.html">iVDR</a>? You are probably not alone. The iVDR (
Hitachi To Offer Super-Advanced Smartphone LCD Display
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<a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/tag/hitachi/">Hitachi</a> subsidiary <a href="http://www.hitachi-displays