After launching early last year, True Link Financial just pulled in $3.5 million in funding to help America’s elderly from getting roped into scam charges.
The technology is simple enough in concept. True Link provides its clients with a pre-paid credit card. The card not only puts in place a spending limit, it also guards against potential spending pitfalls — like unauthorized additional charges companies sometimes stick consumers with.
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Fertility rates in the United States have dropped to an all-time low in recent years, a trend many experts believe is tied to the economic aftershock of the Great Recession in 2007. In order to address fertility problems, many women turn to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) methods, which involve removing eggs, fertilizing them with sperm in the lab and re-injecting them into the woman’s ovaries. Other women have taken to regular hormone treatments in order to up their egg count, and still others use traditional thermometers and holistic methods.
Here’s a little known fact: having green thumbs doesn’t necessarily mean you have the most environmentally friendly home. While maintaining a garden may be good for the soul, it can lead to serious resource waste, not to mention water and electricity bills through the roof.
Two companies that offer smart gardening technologies, GreenIQ and Parrot, have joined forces to provide garden lovers with an efficient, eco-friendly and economical way to keep plants healthy. Their collaboration not only paves the way for a new sector of home-use Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies, but gardens and our planet could become greener because of it.
Norwegian tech firm Thinfilm has cut a deal with Xerox to mass produce “printed electronics,” or electronic chips that can be fabricated by printing their features on top of thin surfaces. Under the deal, Thinfilm will be able to print as many as a billion chips a year for applications such as processors, memory, and sensors for the Internet of Things, or smart and connected everyday objects.
After extending an angel round of investment, security startup Bastille just scooped up an additional $1 million in funding from investors including David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners.
The company first raised $1.5 million in September of last year, but kept the round open. Tom Noonan and John Huntz provided much of the initial investment.
The home security industry once dominated by complicated, expensive systems is in for a rude awakening. Piper, Canary and Scout are all offering affordable options to keep an eye on your home’s safety, and Piper just announced a new system equipped with night-vision called the Piper NV.
El colectivo de investigadores en España representaba a 123.224 personas con jornada completa en 2013, lo que supone 11.429 menos que en 2010 (un descenso del 8,5%), cuando el sector de Investigación y Desarrollo (I+D) alcanzó el techo en cuanto a gasto y personal dedicado a estas actividades.
