Retailers everywhere are challenged to provide unique and outstanding customer experiences that combine personalized service with the power of digital, data-driven technologies. An up-and-coming category of startups are tackling technology solutions that can help retailers bridge the divide between physical and digital. Microsoft has the privilege of working with some of the emerging new leaders in this area and I’d like to share a few of their stories with you.
Tempered Networks, which aims to improve network security at manufacturing and industrial facilities, said it raised $15 million from Ignition Partners and IDG Ventures.
Glaucoma is a ripe opportunity for drug developers. Generics litter the field, yet it’s a roughly $5 billion market that will only grow with an aging population. What’s more, nothing out there cures the disease. Patients typically take eye drops, chronically, for the rest of their lives.
In other words, there’s room for innovation. That’s what led successful ophthalmology executive Vicente Anido Jr. to Bedminster, NJ-based Aerie Pharmaceuticals, one of the leading contenders with a new approach to the disorder.
From answering heath-related questions in its search results to a fitness data platform for developers, Google is becoming increasingly ingrained in the fabric of our daily health-and-wellbeing habits. But behind the scenes, the Internet giant is also working to expedite the discovery of drugs that could prove vital to finding cures for many human ills.
Automotive suppliers are under mounting pressure to satisfy two conflicting customer demands: to cut costs and to open more factories in fast-growing emerging markets so that they can be closer to their customers’ production plants. Striking the right balance between cost and proximity in global manufacturing networks will be one of the industry’s greatest challenges, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), conducted in partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA.
La firma bilbaína Warantum, que ha desarrollado una aplicación móvil pionera para el Registro de la Garantía, ha sido designada como firma ganadora en la categoría de comercio de los premios Start BiscayApp. Este concurso es una iniciativa de Fundación Biscaytik, creada por la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia para impulsar las nuevas tecnologías. Concretamente, a través de Start BiscayApp se busca promover los productos de software en Bizkaia, en el ámbito de las aplicaciones para smartphones y otros dispositivos.
Cyber-attacks dominated the headlines in 2014, highlighting the vulnerabilities we face in business, and personally. At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, one CEO after another issued warnings that the worst was yet to come. Security at the largest corporations and world governments has been breached in high-profile cyber-attacks, exposing the foundational weaknesses of a digital world. The convenience, efficiency and productivity offered by technological advances in the past two decades have overshadowed the fact that with each advance, new and unique security vulnerabilities arise. While perhaps previously overlooked, today these risks are rearing their heads in dramatic fashion.
Un drone développé par la société Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory Ltd, dirigé par Kenzo Nonami, professeur de robotique de l'université de Chiba au Japon, a effectué son premier vol le 20 février.
Samsung Group will develop about 400 ‘smart factories’ in Gyeongsangbuk-do in collaboration with the Gyeongbuk Creative Economy Center, by 2017. The partners will jointly develop fully automated assembly factories based on MES (Manufacturing Execution System) and IoT (Internet Of Things) technologies.
These factories will be also equipped with tailored intelligent ultrafine machining systems and simulation techniques. Samsung is planning to establish about 100 factories by the end of this year.
Disrupt Battlefield finalist Valor Water is graduating out of Y Combinator just in time to help solve the world’s water crisis. Valor provides a suite of business-intelligence tools for water utilities.
In a drought, consumers are encouraged to conserve water and they often do. In California this past December, conservation was up from 10 percent in November to 22 percent in December, in year-over-year water-use comparisons done by the State of California. Since July 2014, consumers saved 134 billion gallons of water or enough to supply 1.8 million residents with water for a year.
