Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, an image flashed up on the screen behind VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi. It was a screen shot from Apple’s new Health app (or a mockup thereof), showing a user’s blood glucose level.
Yext, a company that helps local businesses manage their listing information online, is gearing up to break out of the U.S. with its latest funding round.
The New York City-based company announced today that it has received a $50 million round of funding led by Deven Parekh of Insight Venture Partners. This is Yext’s sixth round of funding, bringing its total to around $115 million.
Yext plans to invest the new funding in upcoming products and international expansion, cofounder and CEO Howard Lerman told me in an interview. The company plans to launch in Germany, Australia, Canada, and the U.K. later this year. It will hit the rest of Europe and Asia in 2015.
Las empresas guipuzcoanas Gurutzpe, de Itziar, y FAGOR AUTOMATION, de Mondragón, fueron reconocidas este miércoles con sendas menciones especiales en la undécima edición de los Premios de Innovación de la 28 Bienal de Máquina Herramienta que, hasta el sábado, se celebra en el BEC de Barakaldo. Junta a ellas, los dos máximos galardones en las categorías de máquina por arranque o deformación y de accesorios y componentes fueron a parar a la empresa Ona, de Durango, y Zayer, de Gasteiz, respectivamente.
IK4-IKERLAN participará en Eurobat AGM & Forum 2014, el principal encuentro anual que organiza la asociación de fabricantes de baterías de Europa, que se llevará a cabo entre mañana y el día 6 en Bruselas. En este evento, en el que tomarán parte empresas líderes del sector, el centro tecnológico vasco presentará sus capacidades como actor de vanguardia en la investigación de tecnologías y desarrollo de soluciones para el campo del almacenamiento eléctrico.
Apple may not have wowed consumers with the latest software offerings at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this year. But it unveiled something that could have a much bigger impact than a new version of its iOS mobile software or even a new iPhone: a new programming language.
Called Swift, it’s meant to offer a faster, easier way to build software for Apple’s products than its existing programming language, Objective-C. And so far, developers like what they see, saying it will be especially helpful for inexperienced coders who may have shied away from developing iPhone apps in the past.
WritePath, an editing company that serves college applicants, technical writers, and academic researchers, has raised $525,000 in seed funding led by B Dash Ventures. The Singapore-based startup will use the capital to set up offices in Japan, Korea, and the U.S. WritePath operates three online editing services called Topadmit.com, Topsciedit.com, and Bizeditors.com that each serve different verticals.
With tens of thousands of miles of solar-power generating roads, parking lots, sidewalks and other open spaces–without needing to clear space in untouched, natural areas–it seems like an ideal, if expensive solution.
It’s one that’s caught the public’s imagination though. The company proposing the idea, Solar Roadways, has smashed its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign target of $1 million.
ORKLI y el IESE firman un convenio por la Iniciativa Excelencia en las Operaciones – INEO, iniciativa en la que Orkli participará en calidad de sponsor colaborando en la definición de las actividades, las líneas de investigación y las prioridades de INEO.
Ekainaren 4an, EikenTalent 2014 ikus-entzunezko proiektu eta ideien sari banaketa ekitaldia egingo da Mondragon Unibertsitateko Aretxabaletako campusean. Eikenek (Euskadiko Ikus-entzunezkoen Klusterra) bultzatzen du EikenTalent lehiaketa, eta bere xedea da sustatzea gazte unibertsitarioen artean ekintzailetasuna eta enplegua.
