Las ventas online de EROSKI en 2015 han crecido más del 12% impulsadas por su renovada propuesta multicanal. A las recientes aperturas, a finales del pasado año, de distintos puntos de recogida de los pedidos online en Bizkaia y A Coruña, se suma ahora una nueva aplicación para móviles y tabletas que permite realizar online una compra semanal en sólo 15 minutos, según ha sido comprobado por los primeros usuarios que han probado la aplicación. El lanzamiento de la nueva app “EROSKI Super” servirá para impulsar las ventas a través de internet del supermercado online EROSKI, que supera los 6 millones de visitas anuales.
According to the Japan Times, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), along with Kyocera Corp., NEC Corp., Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Osaka University and a precision equipment maker in Switzerland, are working on a sensor that, when attached to a smartphone, could detect cancer from human breath.
When President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative last year ears perked up at Seven Bridges Genomics, one of a number of startups that helps researchers store, analyze, and interpret huge amounts of genomic data. The announcement meant more large-scale genomic data projects were on the way for the Cambridge, MA-based startup to fight for. And a $45 million Series A round that the company is revealing today will help Seven Bridges compete for that work.
The hospital – at least the intensive care section of it – is a dangerous place. As many as 30% of the people who go in do not come out, and half of those that do emerge with a slew of problems that require additional treatment – high blood pressure, ambulatory issues, digestive problems, and more, often requiring extensive and expensive time in rehab.
Intensive care patients are especially vulnerable to problems such as kidney and liver failure, cardiac arrest, shock, organ failure, and — perhaps the greatest danger of all — sepsis, which is one of the leading causes of death of ICU patients, both while they are in the hospital and when they get out.
El FMI y la OCDE, fueron los organismos que más fallaron en sus previsiones de PIB para España en 2015, mientras que los servicios de estudios del BBVA y Funcas se situaron entre los más fiables, según la Diana Esade de crecimiento económico y de empleo.
La Diana Esade difundida hoy y que refleja qué instituciones públicas y privadas se acercan más a los datos de cierre de PIB y de tasa de paro según la Encuesta de Población Activa (EPA), señala que ni las previsiones más optimistas supieron anticipar el crecimiento del 3,2% de la economía española.
Todas las instituciones previeron un aumento inferior tanto en el PIB como en la reducción de desempleo y fueron más pesimistas.
That’s according to James Clapper, U.S. director of national intelligence, who on Tuesday, in the annual worldwide threat assessment report of the U.S. intelligence community, added gene editing to a list of threats posed by “weapons of mass destruction and proliferation.”
La Mancomunidad de Debagoiena organiza la Jornada de Aproximación a la Inteligencia Competitiva que se llevará a cabo el día jueves 18 de febrero, a partir de las 9 de la mañana.
El objetivo de la jornada es dar a conocer las ventajas que aporta la Inteligencia Competitiva a las empresas mediante ejemplos reales y distintas herramientas, aplicables en cualquier organización, independientemente del tamaño y la situación geográfica.
Stalled growth in employment rates and slowing high-tech industry see Israel's Global Innovation Index ranking slip to 22nd place from 15th, says Finance Ministry chief economist • New report urges introduction of comprehensive policy to remedy situation.
IIsrael's position as a leading global innovator has been compromised and it can no longer be considered a "startup nation," Yoel Naveh, the Finance Ministry's chief economist, said in an economic review released on Sunday.
Over the last few years, oil and gas giants have not shied away from investing in private companies innovating in diverse areas including cleantech, biofuels, battery tech, wearables, connected fleets, seismic technology, big data, carbon sequestration, and chemicals. Today, innovation can only be more top of mind for the legacy energy giants as they weather the current oil price downturn.
We used CB Insights’ Business Social Graph, which shows how top investors and target companies are related, in order to analyze where some of the top oil and gas companies are striking deals.
Specifically, we analyzed the investment activity of the following 24 corporations and corporate venture arms:
