While Foxconn may be best known as the manufacturing muscle behind blockbuster products like the iPhone, the Taiwanese company is teaming up with a French company to focus on the next wave of smart consumer devices.
Paris-based PIQ announced today that it had raised $5.5 million in a round of funding led by Foxconn. PIQ has designed a platform of sensors and data analytics that focus on sports equipment and performance.
PIQ was founded 18 months ago by Cédric Mangaud, a well-known French entrepreneur who sold his last company to HTC and spent several years as an executive at the company before striking out to form his latest venture.
Keith Larrabee’s farm sits on 4,000 acres of California’s Sacramento Valley, between a coastal range of mountains to the west and the tall Sierra Nevadas to the east. It’s an area that traditionally gets much more rain than most of the drought-stricken state. Even so, Larrabee is always worried about the cost and availability of water for his orchards of walnuts and pecans and his 3,000 acres of rice.
Two years ago he began inserting probes five feet deep into the soil of his nut orchards to measure the water concentration foot by foot.
Afirmaba Peter Drucker que “La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es creándolo”. El BAC de MONDRAGON comparte este precepto, así como la creencia de que la principal estrategia existente para generar empleo y riqueza social es la creación de nuevas empresas.
En este contexto, el BAC de MONDRAGON anuncia la 5ª edición de SAIOKA, una iniciativa que se inscribe en el marco de las estrategias necesarias para materializar un salto cualitativo en la actividad emprendedora de MONDRAGON, y su propósito radica en la detección y promoción de emprendedores en el seno de nuestras cooperativas.
El Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos y la Reserva Federal cerraron un pacto con cinco de los mayores bancos del mundo, por el que serán sancionados con una multa combinada de 5.700 millones de dólares (unos 5.150 millones de euros) por haber manipulado durante cinco años el tipo de cambio de las divisas. Es la segunda reprimenda derivada de esta investigación en menos de seis meses. Esta vez admiten además su culpabilidad en el fraude, lo que puede llevar a acciones penales contra sus empleados.
Understanding pain is still a major challenge for millions of doctors and patients around the world: How severe is a patient’s pain? Can the level of pain tell the physician something about the patient’s condition?
An Israeli biomed startup called Medasense has developed a technology that mathematically measures pain in order to give doctors the best assessments. And that’s why last week, the company was announced as one of two winners of the startup competition at the Israel Advanced Technology Industries (IATI) Biomed Conference.
Under a collaboration announced today, San Diego-based Cypher Genomics said it would use its biomarker discovery service to help New Jersey’s Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG) identify key genetic variants among patients who respond well to specific drugs.
Rentecarlo, the U.K. startup and graduate of accelerator Ignite100, is officially launching today with a P2P car rental marketplace that lets anybody rent out their own car. The idea, which the company’s three Danish founders have been toiling with since mid-2013 before quitting their jobs and studies last year to go full-time, is that can owners can make money on their car’s inactivity while providing car renters with a more convenient option.
Goimek Koop. E.DANOBATGROUPeko kooperatiba da, eta zehaztasuneko mekanizatuan espezializatua izanik batez ere aeronautika sektorera zuzendutako mekanizaturako gaitasunak erakutsiko ditu F-27 hall-eko 5. standean Euskadiko punta-puntako aeronautika sektoreko enpresekin batera “SUBCONTRATACION 2015” erakustazokan, fabrikaziorako prozesu eta ekipoen Nazioarteko Erakustazokan.
Google Ventures is the leading investor in a $15 million round of funding for the Farmers Business Network, a company that is using big data to show farms large and small how to make the most of their business.
Farmers Business Network is the brainchild of Charles Baron, a former program lead of energy innovation and geothermal projects at Google. For $500 a year farmers can contribute to and access FBN’s giant store of farming data that tells them which products and methods deliver the highest yields for a specific crop in a given location.
LKS Abogados y OSARTEN presentan una jornada a la que asistirá, como invitada, la INSPECCIÓN DE TRABAJO y SEGURIDAD SOCIAL en la que se tratará la problemática de la práctica, cada vez más habitual en cualquier actividad empresarial, surgida con la externalización de servicios correspondientes a su actividad, tanto desde un punto de vista laboral como desde la prevención de riesgos laborales.
En el curso de la jornada se responderá a cuestiones como…:
