Many among the Detroit auto media were skeptical of Tesla Motors for years, correctly noting just how hard it is to start a car company and build a genuinely appealing product–electric car or not.
But as Tesla continues to sell Model S electric luxury sedans, expanding into Europe and China as well as North America, some of those skeptics seem to be coming around.
Most recently, John McElroy, a strong proponent of natural-gas vehicles, suggests that Tesla is not in fact only a car company, but an energy-storage enterprise.
Basque Culinary Centerrek, goi sukaldaritza eta gastronomiarekin loturiko enpresagintza sektoreen arteko ikerketa eta jakindurien transferentziaren promozioan eginiko lan garrantzitsuagatik lortu du saria. Saria, Basque Culinary Centerreko zuzendariak jasoko du, Joxe Mari Aizeagak.
Maitzaren 15ean egingo da Eskoriatzako campusean, "Hezkuntza berrikuntza" jardunaldiaren bigarren edizioa. Eskola munduko eragileak biltzea, hezkuntza arloan esperientziak trukatea eta berrikuntza sustatzea xede dituen ekitaldia, hurrengo lelopean egingo da: "Irakasleen prestakuntza: eraldaketa bilatuz. Beharrak, erronkak eta esperientziak". Ekitaldiak sarrera irekia izango du, eta maiatzaren 12ra arte egongo da aukera izena emateko.
Social writing platform and writer’s network Wattpad has been at it for a while now, and they’ve quietly amassed a massive user base that engages regularly with the site, posting their own stories and reading the stories of others, all the while engaging with one another through feedback, criticism and support. Now, the startup has raised a Series C round of funding worth $46 million, led by OMERS Ventures, and including August Capital, Raine Ventures and Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund, and all of the company’s existing investors.
Connected devices are on the rise, but there’s one big reason we haven’t yet realized the Internet of things: a failure to communicate.
For all of their network-enabled smarts, our connected gadgets can’t easily talk to each other. Right now, we have Things Connected to the Internet, which is far from a true Internet of things.
Prodea, an eight-year old company with $100 million in funding, believes it has the solution with its Residential OS (ROS), a white-label platform that aims to unite the disjointed world of connected devices. It’s launching today in the U.S. after nabbing several customers over the years in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
La iniciativa empresarial en el País Vasco gana dinamismo. El pasado mes de febrero, se crearon en Euskadi 341 nuevas sociedades mercantiles, lo que supone un incremento interanual del 10 %. De ese total, 89 surgieron en Gipuzkoa; otras 194, en Bizkaia y las 58 restantes, en Araba. Al mismo tiempo, la disolución de compañías vascas descendió un 14,9% en comparación con febrero de 2013, pues apenas desaparecieron 117 compañías, según las cifras publicadas hoy por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Ine).
Though Europeans’ life expectancies are increasing, a growing number of elederly people is also experiencing more years living with a chronic disease, which is a big challenge for future societies.
At the EU’s summit on chronic diseases (3 April), member states shared good examples, initiatives and best practices to illustrate how to tackle chronic diseases when the number of cases rise.
New medicines that shrink tumors and have beneficial effects lasting for months to years in some cancer patients are helping breathe new life into an old idea: using a patient’s own immune cells to attack malignant cells.
A blood sample could one day be enough to diagnose many types of solid cancers, or to monitor the amount of cancer in a patient’s body and responses to treatment. Previous versions of the approach, which relies on monitoring levels of tumor DNA circulating in the blood, have required cumbersome and time-consuming steps to customize it to each patient or have not been sufficiently sensitive.
