The plunge in oil prices, accelerated by a recent OPEC decision to maintain production targets, will deal a new blow to efforts to commercialize advanced biofuels such as ethanol made from woody plant waste, or diesel made from plant oils. Lower oil prices may also help strengthen the case for scaling back the federal regulations equiring the use of biofuels.
Suddenly, music is a business again. After years of wallowing in the post-Napster/iTunes era, streaming is beginning to take hold and everyone’s phone is now an iPod. So while Sonos has been in the smart home audio business since 2002, now’s the time to push for mainstream adoption. That’s why it makes sense that Sonos just raised $130 million, according to an SEC filing. Sonos declined to comment on the news.
L'UCL innove en créant le Louvain Bionics, un centre d'expertise, unique en Belgique et en Europe, ayant pour objectif de booster la recherche autour de la robotique médicale. Ce centre a pu voir le jour grâce à un legs de 1,86 millions d'euros de Pierre De Merre, via la Fondation Louvain de l'UCL.
The founders of Flipkart, one of India’s biggest e-commerce companies, have led an investment of $1 million in Ather, a Chennai-based startup that makes electric scooters. In addition to Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, who launched Flipkart in 2007 (and are unrelated, despite their identical last names), Ather’s seed round also included participation from Raju Venkatraman, the CEO of healthcare company Medall.
Ya está publicado el estudio aurreTIK 2014, Encuesta de Innovación Tecnológica de Bizkaia. Tras la realización de la encuesta que hace el EUSTAT y que abarca los años 2010-2012,barrixe analiza los datos de aquellas empresas de 10 ó más trabajdores de Bizkaia y publica el estudio aurreTIK. Un 24,3% de las empresas de Bizkaia de 10 ó más empleados ha realizado en 2012 gastos en actividades relacionadas con la innovación tecnológica, un porcentaje ligeramente inferior al de 2011 (24,5%).
Humanity has arrived at a critical threshold in the evolution of computing. By 2020, an estimated 50 billion devices around the globe will be connected to the Internet. Perhaps a third of them will be computers, smartphones, tablets, and TVs. The remaining two-thirds will be other kinds of “things”: sensors, actuators, and newly invented intelligent devices that monitor, control, analyze, and optimize our world.
Over the last several years, stories of the technologies making up an Internet of Things have started to slip into public consciousness. As this is occurring, we believe the whole story of Smart Systems and the Internet of Things is not being told. Many of the dispatches coming in from the “front lines” of technology innovation are but fragments of a much larger narrative.
From our perspective, this story is not just about people communicating with people or machines communicating with machines.
People shop mostly on their desktop computers—but they live on their smartphones. For marketers, effectively reaching their target audiences requires making a connection between those two worlds.
Marketers want to know how effective their ads are on mobile devices. They would also love to be able to retarget a mobile shopper who began making a purchase on that device, and then gave up before providing payment information and a delivery address.
American researchers believe that 97% of people over the age of 66 should regularly take statins to reduce their risk of heart disease. But there is still no consensus within the medical community on the benefits of the drugs. EurActiv France reports.
It's already the biggest-grossing campaign in Indiegogo's history. With more than a week to go before its run on the crowdfunding site ends, the Solar Roadways campaign has more than doubled its $1 million goal.
