{"id":42143,"date":"2013-07-17T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T08:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=42143"},"modified":"2013-07-17T10:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T08:34:19","slug":"apple-to-buy-israels-primesense-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/42143\/apple-to-buy-israels-primesense-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to buy Israel&#8217;s PrimeSense: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is in early negotiations to buy Israel-based PrimeSense, a developer of chips that enable three-dimensional machine vision, for $280 million, the Calcalist new website said on Tuesday (16 May).<\/p>\n<p>A delegation of Apple engineering executives visited PrimeSense in early July, Calcalist said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at PrimeSense were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>PrimeSense has raised $85 million from Israel and U.S. venture capital funds, Calcalist noted.<\/p>\n<p>PrimeSense&#8217;s sensing technology, which gives digital devices the ability to observe a scene in three dimensions, was used to help power Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox Kinect.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Apple<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Apple controversy lifts the lid on Irish tax haven\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/41958\/apple-controversy-lifts-the-lid-on-irish-tax-haven\/\"><strong>Apple controversy lifts the lid on Irish tax haven<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple, Amazon end \u201cApp Store\u201d battle\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/41617\/apple-amazon-end-app-store-battle\/\"><strong>Apple, Amazon end \u201cApp Store\u201d battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple dragged to trial over e-books\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/39201\/apple-dragged-to-trial-over-e-books\/\"><strong>Apple dragged to trial over e-books<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is in early negotiations to buy Israel-based PrimeSense, a developer of chips that enable three-dimensional machine vision, for $280 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,51,6315],"class_list":["post-42143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-primesense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42147,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42143\/revisions\/42147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}