”la Caixa”, a través de su gestora de capital riesgo, Caixa Capital Risc, y Bonsai Venture Capital han participado en una ronda de inversión de un millón de euros en la startup From the Bench. La ronda va destinada a consolidar el crecimiento de la compañía y posicionarla como líder en el desarrollo de videojuegos deportivos para todas las plataformas de móviles (iPhone, iPad, Android y Amazon).
La Fundación Eroski ha creado la Escuela de Alimentación, con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de vida de la ciudadanía a partir de la formación en los múltiples aspectos que inciden en una alimentación sana.
El propósito de la Escuela es trasladar el conocimiento científico y médico a la población, que necesita pautas claras, sencillas y en un lenguaje diáfano para poder aprender a vivir mejor a través de una alimentación saludable. Por tanto, la Escuela persigue informar y formar, pero también interactuar y ser un eje de participación como embrión de una comunidad de personas ligadas por el objetivo de aprender a vivir mejor.
Does anyone dispute that 2013 has been the year of the tech company? LinkedIn has surged over 100%. Twitter and Zulily popped more than 70% and 80% respectively on the day of their recent IPOs. Even Facebook’s stock, once completely out of favor, has doubled in value over the past six months.
La app de transporte público Moovit es elegida como ‘Best App’ en el concurso Open Data Tourism Hack-at-home del proyecto europeo Open Cities, que premia a las aplicaciones móviles que ayudan a las ciudades a ofrecer los mejores servicios a sus turistas
Today, the European Commission, together with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is launching a newonline self-assessment tool for universities to measurehow entrepreneurial they are.HEInnovate enables institutions to assess their performance in seven areas: leadership and governance, organisational capacity, teaching and learning, pathways for entrepreneurs, university-business exchange, the internationalised institution, and impact measurement. [+]
In response to the public outcry over mass Internet surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), the engineers who develop the protocols that underpin the Internet are deep into an effort to encrypt all Web traffic, and expect to have a revamped system ready to roll out by the end of next year.
The effort, by the Internet Engineering Task Force, or IETF, an informal organization of engineers that changes Internet code and operates by rough consensus, involves HTTP, or hypertext transfer protocol, which governs information exchanges between the Web browser on your phone and computer and the servers that hold the data of the website you are visiting.
By making the basic building blocks of batteries out of ink, Harvard materials scientist Jennifer Lewis is laying the groundwork for lithium-ion batteries and other high-performing electronics that can be produced with 3-D printers.
Although the technology is still at an early stage, the ability to print batteries and other electronics could make it possible to manufacture new kinds of devices. Think of self-powered biomedical sensors, affixed to the skin, that would continuously transmit vital signs to a smartphone. Or existing products could be made more simply and efficiently.
A startup called Iotera wants to let you track your pets, your kids, or your belongings without relying on commercial wireless networks.
The iPhone wouldn’t stop chirping. On a recent morning I was riding in a car through Silicon Valley with three people from a startup called Iotera. A small tracking tag was attached to the passenger-side sun visor. Our mission was to see how far we could drive from Iotera’s office building before the tag would stop transmitting its location to a small base station on the building’s roof—which meant the location-logging app on the phone would go silent.
Better insulation could shave 4% off European industry’s total fuel consumption and emissions bill, a sum worth €3.5 billion a year, says an unpublished report by the Ecofys consultancy.
The total cost-effective energy savings potential amounts to 620 petajoules (PJ), the equivalent of 37 million tonnes of CO2 emissions, according to the paper, ‘Climate protection with rapid payback’, which is due to be published next week.
"The lack of awareness of the energy savings potential of industrial insulation is surprising all around,” said Andreas Gürtler, director of the European Industrial Insulation Foundation, which commissioned the research.
