El escándalo de las emisiones se complica para el grupo Volkswagen en Estados Unidos, ahora por la vía legal. El Departamento de Justica presentó una demanda en nombre de la Agencia de la Protección del Medioambiente contra el fabricante de coches alemán por haber violado de manera deliberada la Clean Air Act, al instalar en cerca de 600.000 coches equipados con motores diésel un sistema que les permitió falsear las emisiones de gases contaminantes.
Las firmas de servicios profesionales refuerzan su papel como asesores en el mercado de transacciones en España y, como muestra de su empeño por extender su influencia a este segmento de negocio, KPMG y PwC encabezan en 2015 distintos ránking de asesoramiento financiero en fusiones y adquisiciones por número de operaciones. De acuerdo con las clasificaciones de Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters y Mergermarket, las firmas presididas en España por John Scott y Gónzalo Sánchez adelantan a los bancos, si bien se sitúa por detrás de estas entidades en volumen de inversión.
Ember Technologies, the company behind the temperature-controlled mug, is raising a $4 million series B funding round. It has already secured nearly $750,000 in commitments from investors and told VentureBeat that it has a valuation of $60 million with a $2.73 stock price.
Intel has acquired Ascending Technologies, a maker of smart Firefly drones that can see and sense the environment around them.
Brian Krzanich, chief executive of Intel, demonstrated the drones last year at the company’s keynote speech at the 2015 International CES. The drones were able to sense humans and other objects and avoid running into them.
In a blog post, Intel said it sees unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as an important computing platform of the future. That’s why the world’s biggest chipmaker is interested in them.
Long the butt of endless jokes and victim of failed ambitions, Segway is not only still alive, but is now expanding.
The New Hampshire-based company announced today that it would launch a personal robotics business this year, in a press release that is woefully short on details.
The company infamous for making the Segway scooter will continue to make that product under its Segway PT (Personal Transportation) division. This will be complemented by a Segway Robotics division that will “create a futuristic concept by integrating existing technological proposals.”
General Motors (GM), the century-old car company behind major automotive brands Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, and Vauxhall, announced today that it’s investing $500 million in ride-sharing company Lyft.
Founded out of San Francisco in 2012, Lyft had received $1.2 billion in funding prior to this deal. But more than the latest cash influx, the news heralds a major partnership between the two companies, who spoke of plans to create an “integrated network of on-demand autonomous vehicles” in the U.S.
Quartzy, a lab supplies marketplace, announced it has closed a $17 million round in Series B financing to help the startup build up the supply of lab equipment offered to customers.
The startup launched out of Y Combinator four years back and has since partnered with several academic institutions, including Stanford to offer an alternative marketplace for pricier lab supplies. Quartzy does so with a bidding platform to help scientists find less expensive products from competing suppliers.
This week in San Diego, Singularity University is holding its Exponential Medicine Conference, a look at how technologists are redesigning and rebuilding today's broken healthcare system.
Healthcare today is reactive, retrospective, bureaucratic and expensive.
It's sick care, not healthcare.
This blog is about why the $3 trillion healthcare system is broken and how we are going to fix it.
In recent years, a number of drug companies have zeroed in on a protein called myostatin, which can limit muscle growth and even cause them to waste away in certain diseases. A startup called Scholar Rock is now part of that group, and the Cambridge, MA-based company said today it has raised the cash needed to advance its own muscle-protecting drug into clinical trials.
Everyone is creating smart homes and smart cars. But so far, the two are not talking to each other.
Vinli wants to fix that. The Dallas-based company said today it wants to end fragmentation among platforms with its Vinli Home Connect platform. The single interface is compatible with home systems from Icontrol Networks, Google’s Nest, and Samsung SmartThings.
But Vinli goes one step further, making all of those systems compatible with connected cars. When the Vinli onboard device and platform is used with leading connected home products, the new Vinli Home Connect app integrates them so you can control your home’s temperature, lighting, security, and more right from your car.
