The Boston area boasts hundreds of tech companies doing interesting things—tiny startups, publicly traded giants and every varietal in between.
Our recent 50 on Fire finalists in tech should give you some sense about the biggest achievers in Boston tech for 2014... But that's yesterday's news. So for 2015, here’s a look at 15 of the local companies we plan to keep an especially close eye on.
ven in drought-stricken California, San Diego stands out. It gets less rain than parched Los Angeles or Fresno. The region has less groundwater than many other parts of the state. And more than 80 percent of water for homes and businesses is imported from sources that are increasingly stressed. The Colorado River is so overtaxed that it rarely reaches the sea; water originating in the Sacramento River delta, more than 400 miles north, was rationed by state officials this year, cutting off some farmers in California’s Central Valley from their main source of irrigation. San Diego County, hot, dry, and increasingly populous, offers a preview of where much of the world is headed.
The first sophisticated electronic circuits made from germanium, a promising alternative to silicon, show a path for the computer industry to keep advancing beyond the physical limitations now being reached. Researchers from Purdue University demonstrated the circuits this week at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco.
El ministro de Transporte y Presidente del Consejo de la Saudi Railways Organization, Abdullah Al-Muqbel, ha pedido a los contratistas del AVE a La Meca que completen las fases restantes del proyecto tan pronto como sea posible y que presenten en los dos meses un plan de emergencia para evitar retrasos en las operaciones de ejecución, según publica Arab News.
L'ingrédient miracle contre l'obésité est peut-être déjà dans votre garde-manger... Un simple extrait de pommes de terre pourrait limiter la prise de poids qu'entraîne un régime riche en gras et glucides raffinés.
La Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a créé à la mi-2012 l'appellation "Breakthrough Therapy" (thérapie de pointe) visant à accélérer le processus d'autorisation de mise sur le marché de traitements dont l'impact sur la santé des patients serait majeur. Celladon, une jeune société de biotechnologie développant une thérapie génique pour patients insuffisants cardiaques, a été l'une des premières à bénéficier de ce label. Une action concrète du régulateur pour permettre le développement accéléré d'innovations importantes.
Celladon a obtenu le label "breakthrough therapy" pour Mydicar
It’s tough for people to implement what they don’t understand. Communicating priorities to the front line, especially salespeople, is highly correlated with business performance. Conversely, this “middle ground” is where strategy execution often breaks down. Yet, many executives resist making strategy explicit. The most common reason is fear that this information will get to competitors. As a consequence, the organization tends to become a “global mediocrity”: good at many things, but not very good at any particular things.
“En los momentos de crisis, sólo la imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. El conocimiento es limitado. La imaginación circunda el mundo” (Albert Einstein)
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Avanzamos las principales conclusiones del informe que el Departamento de Estudios de LABORAL Kutxa ha elaborado sobre “La confianza empresarial” apreciada en la Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco para el cuarto trimestre de 2014.
A few years ago, the most enthusiastic advocates of MOOCs believed that these “massive open online courses” stood poised to overturn the century-old model of higher education. Their interactive technology promised to deliver top-tier teaching from institutions like Harvard, Stanford, and MIT, not just to a few hundred students in a lecture hall on ivy-draped campuses, but free via the Internet to thousands or even millions around the world. At long last, there appeared to be a solution to the problem of “scaling up” higher education: if it were delivered more efficiently, the relentless cost increases might finally be rolled back. Some wondered whether MOOCs would merely transform the existing system or blow it up entirely.
