More consolidation in the so-called big data space. Publicly-listed U.S. big data company Teradata has acquired London-based Big Data Partnership, a startup that provides big data solutions and training to help companies become more savvy in the use of, well, big data. You may have noticed a recurring theme here. Read More
After a months-long bidding process and many layoffs, Yahoo has finally found a buyer. Verizon (which owns AOL, which owns TechCrunch) is officially acquiring Yahoo’s core business for $4.8 billion, which includes Yahoo’s advertising, content, search and mobile activities. Read More
Researchers and companies have been exploring new ways to improve buildings through analytics software, prefabrication, connected devices, new materials and construction automation. It’s striking that most of these efforts are trying to patch problems within the legacy framework of “permanent” construction. Could it be that the one thing that is taken for granted is the… Read More
It was just a matter of time, really. With the new slate of Star Wars films on an annual schedule, and drones invading the skies all around us, the timing was right for this kind of synergistic force push. RC toy maker Propel is launching a quartet of drones modeled on some familiar modes of transportation from a galaxy far, far away. Launching this fall/winter, the Lucasfilm-approved… Read More
It wasn’t so long ago that venture capital was a suburban California phenomenon. Los Angeles didn’t have much in terms of a real tech scene — and even San Francisco only had a few VCs or tech companies. Now, VC offices have sprung up in San Francisco, moving more of the investment energy up there. That great migration of companies and activity touches upon what is now… Read More
Silicon Valley society showcased itself at Bloomberg’s late innovation confab in San Francisco as much as the organizations, items, business visionaries and investors on the dais and sidelines.
Speakers and participants alike exchanged remarkable dreams without bounds: colonizing different planets, driving to work in flying autos, utilizing self-programming PCs and expanding human life by hundreds of years.
One of the gathering’s most praised visitors, Marc Andreessen, offered a dream for enterprise itself, characterizing it as the capacity to perceive how the world conceivably could be, then imagining what is expected to change it.
What’s more, thus lies the enduring problem for Silicon Valley: The same inquiries that goad its business visionaries and their sponsor to revamp the world are regularly the same inquiries that lead it into struggle with the strengths that characterize reality for the larger part of individuals.
Why wouldn’t i be able to lease my home out for a day here or there? Is there a superior approach to arrange an auto than hailing a taxi? Shouldn’t autos have the capacity to drive themselves? Imagine a scenario where I could attach my cooler to the web. Who needs a console when you can converse with a PC?
Each of these questions has provoked driven, innovative individuals to begin “troublesome” organizations and develop new items that market innovation in ways that enhance regular encounters.
However, in the meantime, these inquiries — and the answers gave as connected tech — offer as much instability as they do upgrades.
Why wouldn’t i be able to lease my home for a day here or there? No reason, unless it triggers a pattern that saps moderate lodging in underserved markets to oblige vacationers. Without a doubt, there are better methods for requesting autos, or transforming vehicle proprietorship into wage — however shouldn’t something be said about the general population who have invested energy and cash getting authorized as expert drivers, the estimation of which is presently disintegrated? Should substantial machines that can go 150 mph truly control themselves?
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3D sound, it’s, ahem, all around you. From the look (or, rather, sound of it), hardware startups are convinced that the effect is set to be the next big thing in consumer audio, and Kickstarter, accordingly, is littered with headphones that promise a more immersive listening experience akin to the recent VR boom. Most companies went ahead and built the technology directly into a pair… Read More
The future is small in space: picture Cubesats the size of toasters and Femtosats an inch across crowding the skies. A newly invented motor that’s both tiny and powerful goes hand in hand with that vision, providing compact spacecraft with the ability to adjust their position without using a drop of fuel. Read More
Today there is enough data available to bring people of similar or adjacent profiles closer, and inform them about signals and contexts where they could either help, pay it forward or seek help. Over a period of time, a community (a micro-market network) will form that will prospect for each other — be it for a job or a deal or funding. Read More
