One of the more interesting products to appear in the IoT space of late is Protonet's ZOE, a smart home hub that's competing with Amazon's Echo for the home market. You may remember Protonet as the company that broke the internet back in 2014 by crowdfunding $1 million in 89 minutes...
In case you haven’t heard, there is a lot of hype right now about virtual and augmented reality. Three months into 2016, investors have already spent $1.1 billion to get a piece of the action. All this money, but no revenue and, in large part, no clear market. There are...
It's interesting how many people recoil at the idea of implanted wearables. Cochlear implants have been around since the 1980's, contraceptive implants since the late 1990's and a plethora of implanted devices have either kept people alive or improved their quality of life from knee replacements to pacemakers. Meanwhile, wearable...
Guest author Chris Haroun is a venture capitalist at ARTIS Ventures, an award-winning business school professor, and the author of 101 Crucial Lessons They Don't Teach You In Business School. It has been 30 years since the first Back to the Future movie was released. I watched it recently with my...
Mapping created by Arriving in BerlinRecently it's become rare to turn on the television or click on a news website and not see articles or news stories about refugees and asylum seekers. In past months, people fleeing the violence of Syria have captured the public attention, as people cross country...
Google just unloaded a slew of announcements Tuesday in San Francisco, at an event covering new hardware products, new software features, and some new capabilites of interest to its enormous community of Android app developers.In between all the new-hardware announcements, the company also slipped in some updates for its own...
Jaunt, one of the companies at the vanguard of the coming virtual reality invasion, aims to pull away from the pack. It just might succeed, now that it's infused with a new round of investments totalling $65 million. The company says the fresh influx of money is going to enable it to "significantly...
As far as consumers are concerned, virtual reality headsets have been in the pipeline for a long, long time. Consider the Oculus Rift, one of the most well-known of the new breed—it met its Kickstarter funding goal in September 2012, but won't be on general sale before 2016, making for...
Guest author Hugo Messer is the CEO of Ekipa and a global IT staffing expert.When compared to office-dwelling counterparts, managing a remote team has always been a challenge. But at least these days, modern technology helps the cause more than ever. Today's tools enable communication and work in ways previously...
Guest author Carol Broadbent is the cofounder and principal of Crowded Ocean, a Silicon Valley marketing agency. She wrote this post with cofounder Tom Hogan.Industry pundits like to talk about how we’re now inhabiting the post-PC, post-desktop, post-software world. Recently, after launching our 36th startup, we sat back and looked...
While gamers wait patiently for their virtual-reality headsets to go on sale, there's another industry ripe for the VR picking: movies. That means, as VR technology matures, filmmakers have to work out a new approach to their craft. But if they get it right, audiences are in for a far more immersive...
Blocks Wearables, a UK-based startup that’s been working on a modular smartwatch since early 2014, announced its plan Tuesday to release its first product through a crowdfunding campaign set to launch this summer. The company earned a finalist spot in Intel’s Make it Wearable contest in late 2014, and the...
MediaTek, a Taiwan-based semiconductor company, took to the Wearable World Congress floor last week to show off a new way for makers to bring their ideas off the drawing board and into the real world. Priced at just $79, the LinkIt One development kit seems geared specifically for tomorrow’s Internet...
The major European mobile operators are weighing up a blanket ban on mobile advertising, enforced through ad-blocking software installed at the carrier level, according to the Financial Times.Such a move would have a potentially calamitous impact on both apps and websites funded by mobile advertising—the vast majority of them, in...
We knew it was coming, and now it's here: Google Fi is the tech giant's disruptive move into the wireless telecom market. Like many other Google projects before it, from Glass to Loon, it's both experimental and innovative at the same time.See also: Google's Latest (Potential) Disruption: Pay-Per-Gigabyte Wireless DataThe...
Spotify offers a library of 30 million songs.Today, with $9.99 in your back pocket and a working Internet connection, you can sign up for Spotify and get instant access to some 30 million songs, all ready and waiting to be played at the push of a button.For today's teenagers, that's...
Since it launched to the public at the end of 2005 (the very first video is still online), YouTube has come to dominate online video in a way that few businesses manage to dominate anything on the Web. Today, it boasts more than a billion users, who are uploading more...
It’s bad enough that the government can order up user data from services like Google and Twitter without any judicial oversight—even on people not suspected of a crime. To make matters worse, federal agencies can also forbid these companies from ever mentioning the request in public.But some unhappy tech companies have...
Looks like the theory that smartphone kill switches discourage theft may be graduating to fact.Three cities—London, New York and San Francisco—all saw fewer iPhones reported stolen since Apple began putting kill switches into its smartphones, Reuters reports. The drop in crime wasn’t just a subtle downward slope either. Think of...
Guest author Scott Gerber is the founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.In a mentorship relationships, questions are usually more important than answers. After all, how can you help prepare someone if you don't know exactly what they want to accomplish?That said, not all mentors are created equal, which is why...
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