Amazon is soon to announce Alexa for Business, and WeWork is one of the first partners to have hopped on the platform. WeWork’s vision is to use technology to help businesses make the most out of their physical space, all while customizing that space to each individual’s personal needs. The co-working giant has been on the Alexa for Business platform for about a month now, as part… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Farmers Business Network has raised $110 million in new venture funding to support a business that may sound boring to some Silicon Valley technologists but which appears to have addressed a very real need: it’s a social network for farmers that invites them to share their data, pool their know-how, and bargain more effectively for better pricing from third parties.
It’s a real… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The friendly robots that science fiction has promised for so long are finally here, and leading the way is this adorable little machine from Mayfield Robotics.
Source: Wired
Think you know exactly how much Bitcoin will be worth next year? It might be worth taking advantage of NASDAQ’s futures contracts in early 2018, where you’ll be able to bet on the cryptocurrency’s future worth.
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Source: Digital trends
Volvo has a subscription car service, whereby you can get a new vehicle for a flat monthly fee, including insurance, maintenance and service. It’s not the first carmaker to provide this kind of ownership alternative, but it may have the best deal in the business at the moment, with its ‘Care by Volvo’ exclusively for the new XC40 SUV. The deal works thusly: Pay a monthly… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Worried that someone might use your computer and see some embarrassing things in your search history? In this guide, we’ll teach you how to clear browsing history to put your mind at ease.
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Source: Digital trends
Instagram announced this morning that it now has 25 million active business profiles, up from 15 million in July. The company throws out a lot of different statistics (back in September it said it had 800 million monthly active users, 500 million daily active users and 2 million advertisers), but this one’s significant as a measure of how many businesses see Instagram as an important way… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities by the end of this century.
Source: Wired
The first-ever graduate program for space miners-in-training is set to launch next year. And the inaugural class is already taking lessons.
Source: Wired
A company that is seizing the opportunity to provide predictive analytics to the industrial world — regardless of whether a business has made the (often costly) transition to internet-of-things “smart” systems — is today announcing that it has raised a significant round of growth funding to double down on the opportunity. Uptake, a SaaS startup that uses machine learning… Read More
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