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India's Quikr snaps up Hiree to grow its recruitment service

Jul 25, 10:41AM

Screenshot 2016-07-25 17.35.02 Indian classifieds startup Quikr has made an undisclosed acquisition to grow its recruitment business. Read More



Big data company Teradata acquires UK's Big Data Partnership

Jul 25, 9:56AM

Big Data Partnership More consolidation in the so-called big data space. Publicly-listed U.S. big data company Teradata has acquired London-based Big Data Partnership, a startup that provides big data solutions and training to help companies become more savvy in the use of, well, big data. You may have noticed a recurring theme here. Read More



SoftBank's Pepper robot goes on sale in Taiwan in first overseas launch

Jul 25, 9:24AM

softbank pepper robot Pepper, the humanoid robot from SoftBank, is headed overseas for the first time after going on sale in Taiwan today. Read More



Super-fast small biz mobile banking service Tide raises $2M seed round

Jul 25, 8:38AM

beavis The race to create a new, 21st Century form of bank continues. In Europe, Holvi (coming out of Finland) was desktop-first and hasn’t come to the UK. It also hasn’t been focussed on being a hub for third party services, so therefore behaving more like a platform. In the US there is Seed.co (a YCombinator startup) but they haven’t launched internationally yet. So with the… Read More



Gridstore acquires DCHQ and becomes HyperGrid

Jul 25, 4:01AM

hyperform-dashboard_orig Gridstore, a company that focuses on building software and data center appliances for Windows Hyper V-based clouds, today announced that it has acquired DCHQ, a service that helps enterprises move their applications to any cloud or container infrastructure (with a specific focus on Java-based applications). With this acquisition, Gridstore is changing its name to HyperGrid and the old… Read More



Clinton launches app designed to gamify campaigning

Jul 25, 1:47AM

IMG_0582 For better or worse, preaching the gospel of your candidate no longer requires leaving the couch. As anyone who’s cracked open a social media account over the past year can corroborate, the platforms are lousy with campaign slogans, incriminating links and, um, spirited discussions. In the lead up to next week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Hillary… Read More



Metal 3D printing takes flight

Jul 25, 1:00AM

liquidmetal While many designers and engineers find success with 3D-printing parts in plastic for prototyping and low-volume production, producing parts out of metal using similar technology has recently led to the creation of some of the most exciting 3D-printed parts in memory. Read More



Don't feed the trolls — tackle their abuse of platform power instead

Jul 25, 12:00AM

don't feed the trolls In the ever accelerating social media feedback loops of the modern Internet age, ‘don’t feed the trolls’ is a phrase that appears to have fallen out of fashion, favor and collective memory. Read More



Democratic National Committee chair steps down following Wikileaks email release

Jul 24, 10:32PM

Getty images/Johnny Louis/FilmMagic In a massive shake up just ahead of Monday’s convention in Philadelphia, Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced today that she will be stepping down from her role as the head of the Democratic National Committee after the end of the event. The move comes as calls for her to resign have increased in the wake of a massive release of DNC staff member emails by Wikileaks.… Read More



Regenerative medicine today is like the internet in 1993

Jul 24, 10:30PM

Arcturus BioCloud's genome splicing robot. Robin Smith is the co-founder CEO of ORIG3N, a regenerative medical company that has crowdsourced blood samples to create the world’s biggest and most diverse bio-repository. According to Smith, regenerative medicine is the next big thing in medical science — so disruptive, in fact, that he says it’s akin to the Internet in 1993. No wonder, then, that ORIG3N has already… Read More



Drip irrigation provides a conduit for change

Jul 24, 10:00PM

ISRAEL - OCTOBER 03:  Drip irrigation rations out a precise sip of water to a flower. Netiv Ha Asara, Near Qiryat Gat, Israel.  (Photo by James L. Stanfield/National Geographic/Getty Images) Democratic governments are slow-moving creatures — as they should be. Social stability generally requires that change be evolutionary, not revolutionary, lest the changes imposed set off turmoil that could cause much more harm than the hoped-for good. While that principle works fine for most aspects of society, it’s woefully inadequate when it comes to implementing technology for… Read More



Yahoo's board reportedly agrees to $4.8 billion Verizon bid

Jul 24, 9:24PM

yahoo billboard According to reports that are starting to trickle in, Yahoo’s board has accepted the terms of the Verizon offer we reported last week. The core assets of the company that started life in Jerry Yang and David Filo’s 1994 Stanford dorm room as “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” — and at one point was one of the highest valued properties on… Read More



Why car tech companies should look to Amazon for inspiration

Jul 24, 9:05PM

alexa-dash-car Computers are complicated, and one thing drivers don’t need in cars is complication. The safe operation of big, heavy, motor-powered vehicles that can travel as high speed relies heavily on an attentive driver paying attention to the control systems they use to make the car go, as well as to the world around them. Computers, whatever other advantages they have, require attention and… Read More



Prisma for Android is now live for all in the Google Play Store

Jul 24, 7:25PM

Prisma Android The hits just keep on coming for Prisma. Just over a month after launching on iOS and almost immediately capturing the imagination of the Instagramming masses in the process, AI-fueled photo filtering app is Prisma is now live for all Android users. That’s a mere five days after the app first launched in beta on Google’s mobile operating system, through a limited invite… Read More



Apple lays the groundwork to kill online advertising

Jul 24, 7:00PM

Close-Up Of Chess Pieces On Chess Board Their products help us learn, communicate and navigate the world. The companies behind these innovations are battling for the future of computing. Each one is defending their core businesses while placing bets on the future. Their tangled business relationships help mask the underlying strategies that drive them; however, Apple’s strategy to stifle Google’s chief revenue source… Read More



Solar Impulse 2 takes off the final leg of its round-the-world flight

Jul 24, 6:23PM

Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 / Image courtesy of Solar Impulse In the wee hours of the morning, the Solar Impulse 2 took from Cairo, embarking on the last leg of its round-the-world journey. The 17th and final part of the trip is set to end in Abu Dhabi, where it first set off from in March 2015. The last leg of the journey is anticipated to take around 48 hours, at which point pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg will have flown a total of… Read More



Researchers use neural networks to turn face sketches into photos

Jul 24, 5:30PM

Algo-photos We all have a soft spot for Prisma, the app that turns smartphone photos into stylized artwork. But the reverse process — transforming artwork into pictures — is no less fascinating. And it’s not far from becoming real, researchers in the Netherlands said. A team of four neuroscientists at Radboud University is working on a model for inverting face sketches to synthesize… Read More



PonoMusic goes dark for several weeks as the company switches providers

Jul 24, 5:00PM

ponoplayer Neil Young’s music service is apparently down, but not out. In a note posted to Pono’s front page, the hi-res music provider announced that it’ll be going offline for for “several weeks,” due to the recent acquisition of Omnifone, which has been the driving force behind the service’s infrastructure. The company’s purchase has led Pono to seek a new… Read More



Don't make founders' equity even

Jul 24, 3:00PM

business in birds view, office seen from above with emploees sitting at their work stations in a formation shaped like a circle, one drawn away from her colleages Sometimes I think about replacing the table in my office with a sofa and a box of tissues. I’m a lawyer, but sometimes I feel like a therapist. When startup founders sit down with me to hash out equity splits and trust and commitment issues, their tempers sometimes flare. Uncomfortable silences ensue. Feelings get hurt, and tears sometimes fall. Read More



That new 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' series is hitting Netflix

Jul 24, 2:12PM

godzilla-mst3k_00401636 That Mystery Science Theater 3000 reboot you backed last year – you remember the one, right? Jonah Ray, Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt all signed on and you threw your screen like an angry Fry from Futurama meme (helping the project reach $5.7 million on the crowdfunding service). It’s finally got a home. The 14 new episodes of the show will be, perhaps unsurprisingly, arriving… Read More




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