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Lumoid, a startup founded to help Best Buy offer gadget rentals has shut down after four-and-a-half years. The startup graduated from the Y Combinator incubator program in 2013 and went on to raise a few million dollars in venture capital. The business model was interesting: Best Buy would provide Lumoid […]

Best Buy’s digital partner for gadget rental, Lumoid, shuts down

22 Dec, 2017 in failedStartup tagged Accelerators / Angel / Angel investing / blockchain / book / bookreview / consulting / contract management / crowdfunding / crowdfundingexpert / digital / digital innovation / digital technologies / digitization / eCommerce / entrepreneur / failed startup / failedStartup / failure / incubator / lessons / Q & A / shut / small business / Startup / venture by mydigitalstatrup

MyDigitalStartup.org announces the release of the report “Top 10 technology ...

17 Dec, 2017 in Press Release tagged Accelerators / Angel / Angel investing / artificial intellegence / blockchain / book / bookreview / bots / consulting / contract management / crowdfunding / crowdfundingexpert / digital / digital innovation / digital technologies / digitization / drones / eCommerce / entrepreneur / failed startup / failedStartup / failure / incubator / lessons / Q & A / robots / shut / small business / Startup / venture / virtual reality by mydigitalstatrup

Roads and traffic management pose unique challenges for researchers and many are testing the technology capabilities of latest techniques to solve urban traffic problems. A few weeks ago, I blogged about Indian Roads: the final frontier for Autonomous and Self-Driving Cars This week came news that researchers at Texas Advanced […]

Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers to Help Alleviate Urban Traffic Problems

13 Dec, 2017 in Articles tagged Accelerators / AI / Angel / ArtificialIntelligence / consulting / contract management / crowdfunding / crowdfundingexpert / digital / digital innovation / digital technologies / digitization / eCommerce / entrepreneur / incubator / Q & A / shut / small business / Startup / Supercomputers / venture by mydigitalstatrup

Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 10th December News you can use Alexa for Business service brings Voice services to your office – Thus far, voice based technologies like Alexa, Siri and Cortana were consumer novelties, and the response has been overwhelming. At […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 10th December

10 Dec, 2017 in WeeklyStartupNews tagged #ArtificialIntellegence / Accelerators / AI / blockchain / consulting / contract management / crowdfunding / crowdfundingexpert / digital / digital innovation / digital technologies / digitization / eCommerce / entrepreneur / incubator / lessons / matrimonial / matrimony / Q & A / shut / small business / Startup / venture by mydigitalstatrup

This week, the user-generated video hosting service, Vid.me announced it was shutting down. Vidme confirmed it was shutting down because it can’t see a way to make money in the face of internet giants Google and Facebook. The company said that new signups and uploads to the Vidme site and […]

Video hosting service, Vid.me shuts down

9 Dec, 2017 in Uncategorized tagged Accelerators / Angel / Angel investing / blockchain / book / bookreview / consulting / contract management / crowdfunding / crowdfundingexpert / digital / digital innovation / digital technologies / digitization / eCommerce / entrepreneur / failed startup / failedStartup / failure / incubator / lessons / Q & A / shut / small business / Startup / venture by mydigitalstatrup

Tech giant Google announced that it was taking a small stake in a Bengaluru-based daily task management app called Dunzo. This is the first direct investment in an Indian startup by Google. Dunzo is receiving the $12 investment as a part of Google’s Next Billion Users (NBU) commitment. Dunzo had […]

Google’s First investment in an Indian startup – invests $12 ...

6 Dec, 2017 in Articles tagged #ArtificialIntellegence / Accelerators / AI / alexa / amazon / blockchain / consulting / contract management / digital / digital innovation / digital technologies / digitization / Dunzo / eCommerce / entrepreneur / google / incubator / NBU / Q & A / small business / Startup / venture by mydigitalstatrup

At the recent tech conference AWS re: INVENT 2017, Amazon announced “Alexa for Business service,” a move that tries to get Alexa into the corporate world. Thus far, voice based technologies like Alexa, Siri and Cortana were consumer novelties, and the response has been overwhelming. Companies like Amazon are hoping […]

Alexa for Business service brings Voice services to your office

4 Dec, 2017 in Articles tagged #ArtificialIntellegence / Accelerators / AI / alexa / amazon / blockchain / consulting / contract management / crowdfunding / crowdfundingexpert / digital / digital innovation / digital technologies / digitization / eCommerce / entrepreneur / incubator / Q & A / small business / Startup / venture / voice by mydigitalstatrup

Amazon, at its big cloud conference AWS Re:invent announced two key developments in the area of artificial intelligence. AWS is opening a machine learning lab, ML Solutions Lab, to pair Amazon machine learning experts with customers looking to build solutions using the AI tech. It is also releasing new features […]

Amazon offers A.I focused consulting services

3 Dec, 2017 in Articles tagged #ArtificialIntellegence / Accelerators / AI / blockchain / consulting / contract management / crowdfunding / crowdfundingexpert / digital / digital innovation / digital technologies / digitization / eCommerce / entrepreneur / incubator / lessons / matrimonial / matrimony / Q & A / shut / small business / Startup / venture by mydigitalstatrup

Startup News roundup for Week ending 3rd December News you can use Facebook attempts to address fake news by nurturing digital startups in Canada – The Facebook Journalism Project recently announced that it is partnering with the DMZ university incubator and the Ryerson School of Journalism to advance innovation in […]