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Fresh from its acquisition by Facebook last month, Face.com is closing down its facial recognition APIs over the next 30 days. While such a move isn’t that surprising, third-party developers may well ...

I did a bit of a double take when I first saw this announcement. IDrive, an online cloud storage and backup service, is launching a face recognition API today that goes up against the likes of AWS ...

Facebook retired Face.com’s facial recognition APIs less than a month after its $55-$60 million acquisition of the Israeli-based company, which previously offered developers tools to build ...

Google unveiled Android 4.0—codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)—this week at an event in Hong Kong, alongside the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone. The much-anticipated new version of Google’s mobile ...

The move to shutter Face.com's facial-recognition products comes less than a month after the social-networking giant announced its acquisition of the company. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at ...

Back in June of this year, Face.com announced that it had been acquired by Facebook. And in the related blog post, Face.com founder Gil Hirsch spelled out exactly what was going to happen to the ...