Today, the Google-owned purveyor of smart thermostats and smoke alarms announced that it is adding several “whole-home” automation systems to its “Works with Nest” developer program.
The systems — Control4, Creston, Remote Technologies Incorporated (RTI), and URC — offer various kinds of controls for home and businesses. Nest also works with Dropcam, maker of a home video surveillance system. In June, Nest bought Dropcam for $555 million.
Viento en popa a toda vela. Así es la velocidad con la que avanza Mapsa, cooperativa fabricante de llantas de automóvil, ubicado en Orkoien y perteneciente a la Corporación Mondragón. Las cifras son las que lo dicen. La empresa, con 450 trabajadores, tiene un plan previsto de inversión de 30 millones de euros entre los años 2013 y 2017. El objetivo es, por un lado, aumentar la capacidad de fabricación y mejorar la productividad y, por otro, hacer acabados de alta gama, según explicó Miguel Ugalde Barbería, gerente de la empresa. Esto último significa personalizar las llantas de acuerdo a las demandas de los clientes, para lo que cada vez más se introducen nuevas geometrías, colores, texturas... “Es algo que cada vez se pide más.
In the wake of Uber and Airbnb’s rapid growth and billion dollar valuations, everyone is talking about the sharing economy. Sharing marketplaces are experiencing tremendous growth, and today anyone who can rent out a room in their home, share their car, or even leverage their free time running errands can become a micro-entrepreneur.
The “sharing economy” is now moving into the “sharing services economy.”
This morning, Verizon Enterprise Solutions announced its “Auto Share” service, enabling any car company to become a Zipcar. A Verizon exec confirmed to VentureBeat that the company’s intention is to create a platform to share virtually anything.
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L'eau du robinet distribuée à Hong Kong est conforme aux critères physico-chimiques et biologiques de potabilité établis par l'OMS [1]. Cependant, les canalisations et les réservoirs des immeubles, parfois vieillissants et peu entretenus, peuvent être une source de contamination secondaire et de nombreux résidents ressentent le besoin de faire bouillir l'eau du robinet avant de la consommer, ce qui est très énergivore (et a pour effet secondaire de concentrer les polluants chimiques), ou ont recours à l'achat d'eau en bouteille, ce qui a des conséquences écologiques désastreuses.
Launching publicly on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage this afternoon is a company called StudyRoom, which aims to take student study groups and tutoring online, and make them more social. The company has already been running trials of its program in six universities, starting this spring, and now claims to reach 40,000 students across the U.S. who use it as a platform for social, peer-to-peer learning.
As more Americans become aware of the need to conserve water for environmental reasons, or due to drought-related water use restrictions, the water utilities have found themselves struggling to stay financially sound as they begin to sell less water to their customers. Valor Water Analytics is a company moving into this largely ignored sector in order to provide utilities with software that can help them better understand how customers’ changing water usage patterns will affect their bottom lines, and what they can do about it beyond just rushing to raise rates.
Algunas de las mayores empresas de renovables, entre ellas Abengoa, Acciona, Isolux, Elecnor y Gamesa han anunciado grandes operaciones empresariales y financieras en los últimos meses para poner en valor sus activos. Alianzas, salidas a bolsa, ventas puntuales de algunas instalaciones .En total, desde junio se han llevado a cabo, o se han anunciado, operaciones que suman más de 3.000 millones de euros.
