Más movimientos en el capital riesgo en España. La firma de capital riesgo Magnum Capital, fundada por Ángel Corcóstegui, ha comprado la empresa Orliman, a Riverside Company y el equipo fundador.
En un comunicado, Magnum ha explicado que la operación se enmarca dentro de su estrategia de invertir en empresas “de referencia en la Península Ibérica y con un alto potencial de crecimiento y de expansión internacional”.
The home is a major hub for consumer technology startups offering everything from on-demand painters to smart washing machines.
Investors are pouring money into startups that are changing consumers’ home lives. While some startups are providing services that help with household chores, others are trying to transform your home itself by making it smarter. We used CB Insights data to identify 84 funded private companies that are making households more efficient and convenient.
Bridging the gap between the ends of a torn nerve is the latest biomedical trick performed with the help of a 3-D printer.
Additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, makes it possible to build more customized biomedical implants, and has become a popular way to make dental implants and even windpipes. A new 3-D printed structure meant to “guide” the regrowth and reconnection of the loose ends of an injured nerve suggests that the technique could appeal to neurosurgeons as well.
Although progress has been made in limiting carbon emissions in some countries, particularly in Europe and North America, it’s clear that finding ways to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks—or from the atmosphere—is becoming increasingly imperative. Available systems dramatically increase the cost of electricity from plants equipped with the technology. And what to do with all that carbon dioxide after it’s separated remains problematic.
An environment friendly battery made from waste material, that can work continuously for 72 hours with no electricity required for its charging, has been developed by a private educational institute.
The 'Fly Ash Battery' developed by Amity University is a novel ash and activated carbon based battery comprising of aluminum anode and amorphous carbon with graphite.
Dr W Selvamurthy, President, Amity Science, Technology and Innovation Foundation stated that the battery is a revolutionary technology which could work continuously for 72 hours and generate 0.85 volt voltage and 100mA current density for a single cell.
Picture this: A global business magazine features a close-up head-shot of a 30-year-old male on its cover.
He’s of Indian descent, with an American upbringing and education, and he’s just concocted a multi-million dollar business out of thin air.
He’s lauded for his vision, his savvy and his striking intelligence with things both financial and technical.
Now picture this: He’s thousands of miles from Silicon Valley. He hasn’t created an app and he’s not selling the next-big-thing to millennials in San Francisco or Shanghai.
El caso Volkswagen se extiende. BMW se desploma en bolsa alrededor de un 7% después de que la prensa alemana haya hecho público un informe que demostraría que el modelo X3 xDrive 20d sport supera hasta en 11 veces los límites europeos de contaminación
De esta manera, crece la preocupación en el mercado ante la posibilidad de que otros fabricantes hayan tomado el mismo camino de Volkswagen manipulando su software para cumplir con las normativas de emisión de gases.
Todos los indicadores económicos importantes apuntan a que el mundo avanza a un ritmo vertiginoso. Los riesgos —financieros, sociales, medioambientales y políticos— aumentan también de forma exponencial.
El plan de salvamento que acaba de presentar la compañía ante los inversores incluye un programa acelerado de desinversiones de 1.200 millones entre este año y el que viene en todo tipo de activos y países.
Entre los activos que se venderán totalmente o parcialmente está su filial estrella Abengoa Yield, por lo que espera obtener 400 millones. También va a traspasar plantas de cogeneración en Brasil, plantas de ciclo combinado en Argelia, instalaciones solares en Suráfrica y Emiratos, activos de biocombustible en España y EEUU, y plantas de desalinización en Ghana.
n a mass-casualty situation, first responders often have to monitor dozens of injured people at once, to make sure information about each patient’s vitals is readily available. Previously, medics would have to take measurements repeatedly — a hugely time-consuming manual task that prevented them from administering emergency care. Now, the First Response Monitor, created by Cambridge Design Partnership, is a wearable device that can take over the task, monitoring patients’ heart rate and respiratory rate, providing medics with data on-demand.
