An Israeli medical device is making inroads into the $12 billion diabetes monitoring and insulin delivery market.
There are hundreds of glucose meters on the market – needed by diabetics to measure their blood sugar levels and determine how much insulin they need to administer – but the Dario system is one of just a few that uses smartphones to manage the meter itself.
Across almost all sectors and regions, companies face unprecedented disruption. The competitive advantages that once gave companies a defensible position—their product lineup, scale, or legacy position—are no longer as secure as they were. Some upstart with a newer and more agile operating model will start taking market share—if it hasn’t already.
LKS colabora con el Gobierno de Uruguay en la introducción de la innovación en la dinámica de gestión de emprendimientos autogestionarios y otras empresas susceptibles de recibir ayudas del Fondo de Desarrollo (FONDES).
LKS está desarrollando un proyecto de consultoría para la Oficina de Planeamiento y Presupuesto (OPP) del Gobierno de la República Oriental del Uruguay. El objetivo del proyecto consiste en definir un modelo de trabajo que propicie la innovación entre los emprendimientos autogestionarios, algunos de ellos cooperativas, y resto de empresas susceptibles de recibir ayudas por parte del Fondo de Desarrollo (FONDES).
If you live in an apartment and don’t have roof space, you can still buy into solar power through shared ownership programs—a niche market that a number of solar startups are trying to open up.
Louisville, CO-based Clean Energy Collective said today that solar panel maker First Solar has invested an undisclosed sum in the company. Two First Solar executives, including CEO Jim Hughes, will sit on Clean Energy Collective’s board and the two companies will partner to offer what are called community solar projects to consumers, businesses, and utilities.
Kinsa, the company behind the world’s first app-enabled, FDA-approved smart thermometer, has today announced the close of a $9.6 million Series A financing round with participation from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, FirstMark Capital, and Andy Palmer, among others. This comes directly on the heels of the launch of a new program called Fluency, which lets Kinsa track the spread of illness at schools and in other small communities.
GE’s aviation business has a team of data scientists who spend their time sifting through gigabytes of aircraft data and seeking useful bits of information, sometimes even finding treasures they haven’t been looking for.
The machines are talking, and the conversation is getting bigger and more complex. That’s why last October, GE said it would open to developers its new software platform for the Industrial Internet, called Predix. Today, the Japanese telecom giant and the country’s third largest mobile carrier, SoftBank Telecom, said it would take a license to build Predix apps for shipping, manufacturing and other industries.
Los servicios contratados a LKS, División Ingeniería, permitirán a RC HYDRO, obtener la concesión definitiva para la construcción de una central hidroeléctrica con una potencia de 36 MW. El proyecto se ubica en la cuenca del río Cañete, a unos 290 km al sureste de la ciudad de Lima. RC HYDRO SAC pertenece al Grupo ARUNTANI, holding que aglutina más de 14 empresas, y son el segundo productor de oro en el Perú.
La División de Ingeniería y Servicios de la Corporación MONDRAGON ha puesto en marcha su 7ª generación de planes de negocio para la promoción de nuevos proyectos empresariales en MISE.
Finalmente serán tres los proyectos de nuevas actividades que integrarán esta 7ª generación:
La creación de la División Internacional de Formación de MondragonLingua.
Cloud Based O&M support para plantas de tratamiento de agua, presentado por MSI.
Instrumentación y Monitorización Geotécnica y Estructural, liderada por LKS INGENIERÍA.
Las propuestas han sido evaluadas atendiendo a los siguientes criterios de elegibilidad:
Vitastiq is preparing to launch a new portable device that measures your body’s vitamin content by passing a sensor over your skin. It works with a smartphone app that shows you whether you need more vitamins and minerals.
The Zagreb, Croatia-based company has been working on the technology for two years, and it just launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise $49,000 for manufacturing and an Android app version.
