Toronto-based startup Bionym has launched an SDK for its forthcoming identity-authenticating wristband, Nymi. It said today that more than 6,000 developers have registered their interest in building software that hooks into the heartwave-sensing bangle. Thus far, it’s managed to pre-sell more than 7,000 of the $79 wristbands, which are due to ship in Spring 2014.
Viclone, la compañía española pionera en la creación de asistentes virtuales, continúa con su expansión internacional. Después de su llegada a México y Hong Kong, Viclone ha iniciado su actividad en Brasil de la mano de la empresa local WebSIA, especializada en soluciones web integrales.
Una start up barcelonesa traslada el modelo pedagógico de plataformas como Coursera y Udacity a la formación en empresa.
Diez millones de usuarios, casi un millar de cursos y más de 200 universidades implicadas. Estas son las cifras que ilustran la revolución conceptual y pedagógica que ha supuesto el movimiento de los MOOC’s (Massive Open Online Courses) en el terreno de la educación. Plataformas como Coursera, Udacity o EDX son los principales agentes de una cambio de paradigma que ambiciona educar al mundo a través de la red, ofreciendo cursos de las mejores universidades abiertos a quien quiera seguirlos.
The “local space” has long held sway over the imagination of entrepreneurs, who have produced everything from travel apps to city guides, neighborhood news sites and event planners in pursuit of local dollars. But local is a tough nut to crack, with many high-profile companies stumbling along the way, including EveryBlock, Patch and YardSellr to name a few.
Nextdoor is one of a handful of companies that has managed to thrive in the local market, and a growing list of investors are betting that the “Facebook for your neighborhood” could be the next big social network.
The relationships among growth, profitability, and survival are complex for new firms. Attrition is high in the early years—and although profitability is crucial to keeping firms in existence, growth isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
For new firms, an IPO is the dream, but survival is the goal. Given that a large proportion of startup firms fail, new companies have naturally focused on rapidly growing their operations and sales to ensure they stick around long enough to gain new clients and, eventually, claim a larger foothold in the market.
It’s year six of the Mobilize conference and this year, as we’ve already told you, we’re shaking things up with a new focus on ubiquitous computing in addition to your familiar mobile devices. When everything can be connected, it’s worth exploring how the infrastructure must change, what we will do with all that data and which devices will be the first to gain connectivity.
I'm just fresh from the Soil Association's Annual Conference where they've been discussing the relevance of social innovation to tackling some of their core challenges. During question time, a little voice pops up at the back and asks whether the sharing economy is relevant to supporting the growth of organic, local food consumption in the UK.
Monica+Andy, a new children’s clothing line and online store launching in early November, has the benefit of receiving input from a famous name in the e-commerce space: the “Andy” in “Monica+Andy” is Andy Dunn, CEO of men’s fashion brand, Bonobos. Now his sister, Monica Royer, is getting into the business too, but with a completely different take. She’s not designing clothes for men or women, but instead for babies and toddlers.
Initially, the line will be aimed at parents with children ages 0 to 3, before expanding to additional age ranges.
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