Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

Accountants, get worried — Rimilia raises $25m growth funding

 Currently large enterprises require large accounting teams to do what’s known as cash matching and credit collection. This is very manual stuff. Some of the ERP vendors (most notably SAP) have their own modules to do this, but in this world the big players are firms like Hanse Orga which is focused on Germany and the SAP ecosystem, and US players HighRadius and Billtrust. However, much… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

'Insecure' Returns With a Secret Weapon: Agility

The show’s second season acknowledges issues other shows might obsess over—but never gets bogged down.
Source: Wired

Helix’s Bold Plan to Be Your One Stop Personal Genomics Shop

$80 and a spit sample gets you a spot on one of Helix’s sequencing machines and a chunk of its cloud storage for your exome sequence.
Source: Wired

Microsoft’s second-generation HoloLens will include a dedicated AI coprocessor

 Microsoft has revealed that it is preparing to equip the second version of its HoloLens VR headset with its own AI processing capabilities to enable more features and services. The firm said that it is customizing the current processor within the headset with an AI coprocessor that will allow HoloLens to analyze data without needing to use the cloud. That means faster processing times, and… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Zuckerberg fires up the Zuckergrill live on Facebook – CNET

Talk about multitasking — the Facebook CEO talked affordable internet and cancer research while cooking up a storm.
Source: CNET

Zero-G Blood and the Many Horrors of Space Surgery

Traumatic injury in space has a huge potential impact on a mission. And people barely know anything about how to deal with it.
Source: Wired

Telegram now sends disappearing messages, just like Snapchat – CNET

Sorry Snap, looks like someone else is stealing your ideas.
Source: CNET

Top 5 hidden Echo features video – CNET

Amazon’s Alexa-powered speaker has some perks beyond being a great little assistant.
Source: CNET

Kakao is putting speech recognition tech into cars from Hyundai and Kia

 Less than a month after announcing plans to spin out its transportation and mobility business, Korean tech firm Kakao has inked deals to put hands-free systems inside cars from Korea’s second largest automotive firm Hyundai and its Kia affiliate.
Kakao is best known for operating Korea’s top messaging app, Kakao Talk, which is installed on over 95 percent of the country’s… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

KKR said to be in talks to buy WebMD

 Private equity giant KKR is said to be in acquisition talks with medical site WebMD, according to a report from Reuters on Sunday. Shares of WebMD ticked up slightly in after-hours trading after the report.
The price of the potential offer could not be learned, but the public market cap last valued the company at $2.1 billion. Shares are down 10% compared to a year ago, but up 11% since the… Read More

Source: TechCrunch