Professor-led startups at the University of Austin at Texas just got a big boost in seed stage funding this week. Bob Metcalfe, director of the Innovation Center at UT and professor of innovation, and Robyn Metcalfe, director of Food+City at UT, donated $100,000 through their Metcalfe Family Foundation to supportInnovation […]
Monthly Archives: December 2016
The New York-based company gives us a behind-the-scenes peek at how it created a custom VR app for Sony’s Bravia Android TVs. Smart televisions are big business. Televisions in millions of American homes are internet-connected, hooked up to Netflix and Hulu via Rokus and Apple TVs. As smart TVs become […]
How The Virtual Reality Startup Littlstar Built An App For ...
1
The Volkswagen Group is joining the eRoaming platform Hubject GmbH as shareholder. With the strategic investment in the Berlin-based company, Europe’s largest car maker will push ahead with the digital interconnection of charging stations for electric vehicles starting in early 2017 as well as the expansion and internationalization of Hubject […]
Volkswagen Group opts for charging network intercharge Hubject
2
New 3.0 Version Allows Skiers, Snowboarders to Easily Stay in Touch on the Slopes [San Francisco, Calif.] – Perfectly timed for the Christmas holiday season, SkiLynx today unveiled an upgraded version of its popular ski and snowboard app that enables friends and family to easily stay connected on the […]
SkiLynx, the Best New Ski App, Expands to Android and ...
For all of it’s limitless pivots, funding rounds and in-office football tables, Startup culture can teach established companies a thing or two. Every engineering department has moments it’s not too proud of. That one major bug that made it into production, the code deployed to the real world instead of […]
What we’ve learnt from Startup Culture
Traditional companies in banking and insurance can use data science to survive the era of internet giants and financial technology startups. Over the course of many centuries, the banking and insurance industries have developed processes, products and infrastructures that have shaped the economic structure of humankind. But now, they are […]
How Data Science Can Save Traditional Banking and Insurance from ...
TEMPE, AZ, December 14, 2016 – VisualVault, a SaaS-based Business Process Automation/Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software company, has released a true “Zero Footprint,” high performance document viewer as a part of its core platform for all clients. Consistent with VisualVault’s focus of managing high-value document and data-intensive processes for […]
VisualVault Releases true “Zero Footprint” high performance document viewer.
A Michigan-based startup named Rivian is about to move one step closer to becoming a full-fledged automaker. The company’s top executives are involved in talks to buy a former Mitsubishi plant located in Normal, Illinois. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images The Normal facility produced the Outlander SUV until the […]
A secretive startup wants to build self-driving electric vehicles in ...
Dublin-based start-up Foreign Exchange Clearing House (FXCH) is turning to crowdfunding to raise €8.5m, to expand its operation that uses blockchain and overhaul how currency is exchanged between financial institutions. While initiatives like the euro have reduced the risks involved in foreign exchange (FX) between banks among EU member states, […]
Irish blockchain start-up FXCH aims to overhaul foreign exchange
A weekly roundup of top news for Startups and Entrepreneurs Aussie VR start-up Zero Latency takes its zombies global after raising $7 million – Melbourne-based Zero Latency, which has developed a unique way to allow groups of friends to roam freely together in virtual reality, has closed a $7 million […]