When the startup Qordoba first met with California venture capitalists to share its software idea, its founders faced an uphill battle for attention. Its chief executive was a female ex-banker. Its chief technology officer was Syrian and had taught himself English. And their business was based in Dubai. But Qordoba was operating in a market … Continue reading The Startup Postmates and Visa Use To Watch Their Language Just Raised $11.5 Million To Expand – Alex Konrad
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How To Improve Your Digital Journey With The Right Partners – Derek Klobucher
https://youtu.be/0N4iAWoT764 Compared to a classic IT solution, [partnership] enables you to go much further along the way in a short period of time,” Carlo Schots, from The Netherlands-based IT service provider Ordina, stated in a video shown at SAP Leonardo Now last month. “Together they enable you to innovate digitally.” Ordina partnered with SAP to … Continue reading How To Improve Your Digital Journey With The Right Partners – Derek Klobucher
Despite What Anti-Vaxxers Say, Vitamin K Shots Are Safe For Newborns – Lauren Strapagiel
Babies are born with a deficiency in vitamin K, an important factor for proper blood clotting. So most newborns are given a shot of vitamin K soon after birth to prevent potentially life-threatening hemorrhages in the brain or intestines. It's been standard practice since the early 1960s, but the rise in anti-vaccination rhetoric has also … Continue reading Despite What Anti-Vaxxers Say, Vitamin K Shots Are Safe For Newborns – Lauren Strapagiel
Why You Shouldn’t Share Your Goals – Aytekin Tank
The race to get the world’s first plane in the sky was a hard fought battle between The Wright Brothers and a lesser-known gentleman by the name of Samuel Pierpont Langley. You will discover why you’ve never heard of the latter here shortly. As you probably read somewhere inside that history textbook you were forced … Continue reading Why You Shouldn’t Share Your Goals – Aytekin Tank
Africa Renewables Fund awards $1.6m for solar home lighting to 7,000 homes in Zambia —
Kazang Solar, Azuri Technologies’ official distribution partner in Zambia, has been awarded $1.6 million from the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) under its Renewable Energy and Climate Adaptation Technologies (REACT) window. Azuri is a leading commercial provider of pay-as-you-go solar home systems to off-grid homes in Africa and has been working with Kazang in Zambia… via … Continue reading Africa Renewables Fund awards $1.6m for solar home lighting to 7,000 homes in Zambia —
The Robot Will See You Now: Could Computers Take Over Medicine Entirely – Tim Adams
Like all everyday miracles of technology, the longer you watch a robot perform surgery on a human being, the more it begins to look like an inevitable natural wonder. Earlier this month I was in an operating theatre at University College Hospital in central London watching a 59-year-old man from Potters Bar having his cancerous … Continue reading The Robot Will See You Now: Could Computers Take Over Medicine Entirely – Tim Adams
How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can – Mae Ryan
A robotic hand? Four autonomous fingers and a thumb that can do anything your own flesh and blood can do? That is still the stuff of fantasy. But inside the world’s top artificial intelligence labs, researchers are getting closer to creating robotic hands that can mimic the real thing. The Spinner Inside OpenAI, … Continue reading How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can – Mae Ryan
Amazon Shakes Up Drugstore Business With Deal to Buy Online Pharmacy PillPack – Angelica LaVito/Lauren Hirsch
Amazon shakes up drug store industry by acquiring online pharmacy company PillPack 7:34 AM ET Fri, 29 June 2018 | 01:36 Amazon is acquiring online pharmacy PillPack in a deal that is already shaking up the drugstore industry. The move is the strongest indication yet of Amazon's intent to push further into the health-care … Continue reading Amazon Shakes Up Drugstore Business With Deal to Buy Online Pharmacy PillPack – Angelica LaVito/Lauren Hirsch
The Best Blockchain Jobs And Careers Available Today – Bernard Marr
Blockchain expertise captured the No. 1 position on the latest skills index by Upwork for being the hottest in the U.S. job market. This is just one of the many indicators of how high the demand is for people with blockchain skills. Blockchain may have begun in finance to support cryptocurrencies, but now blockchain technology … Continue reading The Best Blockchain Jobs And Careers Available Today – Bernard Marr
What It Takes To Make IoT Implementation A Success – Robert Plant & Cherie Topham
Organizations around the globe understand the importance of IoT. In fact, in a recent Forbes Insights/Hitachi survey of more than 500 executives worldwide, over 90% said IoT will be important to the future of their business. What’s more, of all emerging technologies, executives said IoT would be the most critical, ranking it above others like … Continue reading What It Takes To Make IoT Implementation A Success – Robert Plant & Cherie Topham