Immerse Learning and REWIND: VR Take Virtual Reality To Deeper Levels
The annual videogames show E3 is currently taking place in Los Angeles and even halfway through the conference, it is clear that Virtual Reality (VR) is carrying all before it. This technology has had...
View ArticleIsrael's Zebra Medical Vision Brings Machine Learning To US Healthcare
Once centers of Utopian socialism, Israel’s network of communal agricultural settlement known as kibbutzim have changed greatly since Jewish pioneers set them up at the start of the 20th Century. After...
View ArticleAfrica's Future Challenge Is For Power To Fuel Its Data Revolution
Much has been made of the mobile revolution in Africa, not least the success of mobile money platforms, which have forced Western banks to transform their digital offerings to customers. While mobile...
View ArticleColumbus Picks Up $50 Million From The White House As The US Smart City Of...
At this year’s SXSW Spring conference in Austin, there was the usual hullabaloo about which companies were going to be the so-called unicorns of the future, as well as the usual difficulty of arranging...
View ArticleSliide Airtime Unlocks Screen Content For Free Airtime In Africa
Earlier this week the founder of one of London’s best-known VC funds Playfair Capital decided he was moving to Africa to become an angel investor. Frederico Pirzio-Biroli previously worked for NGOs on...
View ArticleCat S60 Outhypes The iPhone 7 And Brings Thermal Imagery To Cellphones
It’s rare for any other cellphone other than the iPhone to cause hysteria among customers, but this year’s Mobile World Conference in Barcelona saw one such instance. An announcement was made by the...
View ArticleWembley And Wimbledon Serve Up Major Mobile Experiences
In less than a month the Rio Olympics will finally begin and the event’s sponsors will be hoping for a brand experience that will reflect well on them, their customers and the Olympics themselves. None...
View ArticleSan Diego's Smart City And Cybersecurity Cluster Means Smart Is Safe
San Diego has previously beenbetter known for being thethe headquarters of Qualcomm and the US Navy and Marine Corps , the latteremploying more than 130,000 people across the city andhome to the...
View ArticleLondon Tech Scene Remains Buoyant After 'Temporary' Brexit Setback
We need to talk about Brexit and the effect it is likely to have on the London tech sector. The immediate aftermath of the EU Referendum result was dominated by stories of recruitment and investment...
View ArticleChinese Consortium Acquires Media.Net For $900 Million In Third-Largest Ever...
AdTech pioneer Media.net, has been acquired by a Chinese consortium from serial internet entrepreneur Divyank Turakhia's Starbuster TMT Investments in an all-cash transaction of $900 million. The...
View ArticleSkills Shortage Means Salaries Soar As US Cities Vie For Cybersecurity Talent
The notion of a job for life appeared to have withered away from contemporary existence as surelyas Luddites were ejected from the workforce in the early 19th Century. The ongoing rise of automation,...
View ArticleBullguard Acquisition Of Dojo-Labs Shakes Up Fledgling IoT Security Market
Financial terms were not disclosed, suggesting the deal wasn’t major dollars; it seemed just another story that briefly dazzled on a summer day.
View ArticleUS Companies Acquire Transatlantic Startups At Rate Of Three Out Of Four
U.S. companies acquired a number of startups that is significantly higher than E.U. companies, approximately four times more with 4,880 deals out of 5925.
View ArticleColor Dating Brings People Together From Other Races To Date Equally
Color Dating openly encourages people of different ethnicity to date each other and to break down the passive cultural barriers that Tran experienced.
View ArticleThe San Diego Padres And Petco Park Get Smart On Energy
Whether smart technologies can be used to increase the playing performance of the San Diego Padres remains to be seen, but in sport it is always the margins that count.
View ArticlePodcasting In Australia Is Big Business As Subscription Models Dominate
Today is International Podcasting Day and it is also International Coffee Day, but the evolution of podcasting is much more interesting than any gratuitous shot of caffeine.
View ArticlePrivate Equity Floods Into Central And Eastern Europe Companies
It has been another desperate morning for Sterling on the world’s currency exchanges. Now at record lows for more than three decades against the dollar, the UK Brexit vote augurs more woes ahead. The...
View ArticleAmid War And Turmoil Lebanon's Robust Tech Scene Continues To Prosper
Beset on all sides by enemies, adversaries and strife, overwhelmed by refugees and historically fragmented by politics and religion, Lebanon would not appear to be the most attractive country for...
View ArticleLike Coachella, TechStars Music Will Shake Up The Music Industry
For two weekends earlier this month, the music industry was shaken yet again. Over three nights, sixof the world's biggest acts played at a polo club in Coachella, a venue close to the the desert...
View ArticleThe World Demands We Fix Technology Devices And Not Discard Them
Too much technology is discarded when it can be easily repaired and passed on to others, especially in emerging economies. Now one country, Sweden, is giving its people tax breaks if they repair, not...
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