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The 8 biggest product debuts you'll see at CES 2025
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 00:30
GUEST: The Consumer Electronics Show is just around the corner and is expecting over 165,000 attendees and more than 3,800 product demos. But as exciting as CES always is, the changes we'll see there will be incremental....
Microsoft Cortana is about to become your all-purpose productivity bot
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 23:15
Microsoft Cortana is playing catch-up with Siri and the Google Assistant, but that’s about to change that. The company Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded in 1975 has made no secret of the fact that they intend to become...
This mouth guard could show your concussion risk immediately after a nasty hit
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 16:00
Prevent Biometrics is creating a mouth guard that can sense impacts during sports events and tell you via a mobile app if there’s risk of a concussion. The Minneapolis-based company will show the mouth guard and mobile...
Charging Order Gives Creditor Priority Claim To Defeat A Receiver In Detroit Memorial
Forbes - 17 Dec 2016 06:17
Long story short, Angelo Alleca started a series of investment funds, and allegedly used the money from the newer funds to cover investment losses in the older funds, while concealing all losses from investors. The fraud...
The Italian startup dilemma
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 19:10
GUEST: Throughout history, Italy has been recognized as an excellence for creativity, style, and outstanding entrepreneurship. This creativity, however, hasn’t translated to tech startups. Italy trails behind every oth...
4 questions to ask about artificial intelligence in your business
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 00:10
GUEST: Everyone seems to be talking about artificial intelligence these days, and you’re probably wondering why it’s suddenly such a hot topic. Is it the prospect of creating autonomous robots and self-driving cars? ...
Why you should be afraid of Google's expansion into hardware
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 21:05
GUEST: Google first made waves in the hardware market when it purchased Motorola in 2011 for $12.5 billion. A company on the scale of Google getting involved in hardware put some established manufacturers on edge, though...
Linden Lab's Sansar will take virtual worlds far beyond Second Life
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 20:25
Second Life is by far the most successful virtual world ever created. And with Project Sansar, the creators of Second Life believe at Linden Lab believe they can use virtual reality to create a far more immersive experie...
Tesla starts fining people who abuse Supercharger stations
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 03:43
Carmaker Tesla today said it will start making people pay money when they don’t pick up their Tesla vehicles from Supercharger charging stations after the vehicles have been fully charged. The idea is this will mean wh...
Oculus' funding of Robo Recall nearly match what Epic Games spent on Gears of War
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 18:02
Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today. The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games and projects for years now through Oculus Studios. In October, Faceboo...
The No. 1 Danger In Virtual Reality Gaming Nobody Wants To Talk About
Forbes - 17 Dec 2016 23:25
Whether or not this current iteration of VR is video games' next evolutionary step has yet to be proven. Cartoon by Steve Napierski.
These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 09:44
This week, Tech.eu tracked 16 technology M&A transactions, one IPO and 74 tech funding deals (totaling €395 million, $413 dollars) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news it...
Uber Doubles Down On Decision To Defy California On Self-Driving Car Rules
Forbes - 17 Dec 2016 02:29
The ride-hailing giant appears to be initiating a legal fight with regulators to avoid a $150 permit
Airbnb seeks to raise an additional $153 million to boost its war chest
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 06:12
(Reuters) – Airbnb Inc is looking to raise an additional $153 million as an extension of a recent funding round, boosting its coffers as the company pushes forward with global expansion. Airbnb on Friday authorized the...
Interview with Byron Deeter on SaaS Metrics and Measuring Growth
Forbes - 17 Dec 2016 22:11
The SaaS market's rapid growth shows no signs of slowing down. According to data from Statista, the industry is worth approximately $93 billion today and could be worth more than $150 billion by 2020. We've already seen ...
Here's why Uber doesn't think it needs a permit for its self-driving cars in San Francisco
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 01:40
Uber has fired back at California state regulators over demands that it halt testing of its self-driving cars in San Francisco. The company’s head of its advanced technology group and cofounder of autonomous trucking c...
Everything May Be Broken But This CEO's Glasses Are A Rose Hue
Forbes - 17 Dec 2016 01:32
SheEO is re-engineering funding for women entrepreneurs with a plan to take #radicalgenerosity and roll it out, city-by-city, over the next five years. Their ambitious goal is to get to one million women committing $1,00...
Gusto launches survey tool to help companies measure employee happiness
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 01:29
At its core, Gusto wants to be a people platform, service businesses will want to rely on for anything relating to their employees. The company once known as ZenPayroll once centered on processing payroll, but has since ...
Sweden's Stillfront Group buys Dubai-based Babil Games for up to $17 million
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 23:45
Sweden’s Stillfront Group, maker of games such as Call of War, has acquired Dubai-based Babil Games for $17 million. The deal shows that the Middle East and North African games market is becoming a significant market o...
The King & Wood Mallesons Collapse: Déj vu All Over Again
Forbes - 17 Dec 2016 16:55
Global law firm King & Wood Mallesons is dissolving. It's motto, 'The Power of Together' did not work out for its thousands of attorneys and staff. What does the failure of its 'bigger is better' strategy portend for oth...
What Google, Microsoft, and Amazon did this week in the race to be everyone's favorite virtual assistant
Venture Beat - 17 Dec 2016 15:38
Take a step back for a look at the big picture and it’s clear that 2016 was a remarkable year for bots and virtual assistants. Within the span of a few months this spring, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft all mad...
Home Designer And Builder Kim Gordon's Unconventional Path To Success
Forbes - 17 Dec 2016 23:51
Kim Gordon is taking the Southern California housing market by storm. Her homes sell quickly and secure a price that is $1 million to $2 million above comparable properties in the area. In this Q&A, Gordon discusses her ...