UK’s Advertising Standards Authority is mulling an investigation into Amazon Prime after shoppers complain they’re not receiving shipments as quickly as advertised.
Source: CNET
Horizons Ventures, the VC firm founded by Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-Shing, has made a rare early-stage investment after it backed AI startup Fano Labs.
Horizons has invested in the likes of Facebook, Razer, Slack, Improbable, Spotify and more, and now it is putting undisclosed money into Fano Labs, which recently graduated AI accelerator program Zeroth. This deal also marks the… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Oracle will pay $1.2 billion in cash to buy construction software developer Aconex, the companies announced today. Based in Melbourne, Aconex’s cloud-based software allow teams working on building projects to collaborate and share documents. Oracle agreed to pay AUD $7.80 (about $5.97) per share in cash for a total of $1.2 billion. This price represents a 47% premium over… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
It’s been some time since Uber made its full service available inside messaging apps — most notably Facebook Messenger — but now it is rolling out to another one, BBM, with an eye on emerging markets. BBM is virtually dead in Western markets following the decline of BlackBerry phones, but it hasn’t died altogether. Now run by Indonesian telco Emtek, BBMÂ still maintains… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Tencent, the internet giant that recently became Asia’s first $500 billion company, is continuing its investment spree after it agreed to buy $604 million in shares of Chinese online retailer Vipshop. The deal is being made with long-time partner JD.com, which will invest $259 million into Vipshop, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. That takes the total between the two to… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
In a “watershed” attack, hackers used a malware program called Triton to to breach the security of an unnamed industrial facility, but tripped up when they tried to gain control of the safety systems.
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Source: Digital trends
Most team leaders will agree on the majority of decisions that need to be made and good startup teams seem telepathic at times, but there are inevitably going to be profound disagreements. It’s critical that entrepreneurs embrace these conflicts because solving them properly is often the difference between success and failure. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
La pÃldora incorpora un sensor ingerible que emite una señal cuando se disuelve en el estómago. Gracias a él, los médicos podrÃan saber qué enfermos abusan de su medicación o cuáles no han dejado de tomarla, algo especialmente importante en los tratamientos con opioides
Source: MIT
Aunque todas están destinadas al entretenimiento, destacan por su buen funcionamiento que no requiere los costosos y pesados cascos de alta gama. Todas pueden experimentarse desde cualquier ‘smartphone’ medio bueno
Source: MIT
El mundo es una fuente inagotable de datos pero es imposible acordarse de todos. Los humanos son capaces de priorizar la información más importante pero las máquinas, no. Eso acaba de cambiar gracias a un trabajo que ha conseguido aplicar la teorÃa Hebbiana a las redes neuronales
Source: MIT