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(Video) Drone Shows Startup, Verity Studios Raises $18M in Series A Financing
[Investing]
2018/06/20 11:36
Verity’s safe, ultra-reliable autonomous drones bring industry-changing technology to live events and commercial applications.ity Studios AG, the global leader in indoor drone technology, announced today that it has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round, making Verity the world’s most well-funded company in the rapidly emerging commercial indoor drone market. Fontinalis Partners, a v...
New Credit Card Startup, Brex Lands $50M From PayPal Mafia
[Investing]
2018/06/20 11:36
Brex, a San Francisco company that offers a corporate credit card for startups, has launched its first product and raised $50 million in new investment, bringing its total funding to $57 million. PayPal founders Max Levchin and Peter Thiel contributed to the Series B financing round, in addition to fintech venture capital firm Ribbit Capital, early Facebook investor Yuri Milner and former Visa...
(Infographic) How 10 Billionaires Surmounted Failure to Build Massive Empires
[Investing]
2018/06/20 11:36
Overcoming gut-wrenching failure is often a surprising prerequisite for achieving phenomenal success. In fact, it’s actually quite the rarity to have an impeccable track record like the legendary investor Warren Buffett that dates all the way back to the very early years.It’s far more normal for entrepreneurs to experience incredible amounts of adversity through their careers, whether it’s a...
Byton Unveils Second Prototype Self-Driving Electric Car
[Product]
2018/06/20 11:35
The Byton K-Byte follows on the Byton Concept (now called the M-Byte), shown in January of this year.Byton, a self-described "intelligent electric vehicle maker" based in California, has unveiled the K-Byte. This self-driving sedan will be shown at the upcoming CES Asia as a premium sedan concept built on the Byton EV platform. Its main feature is integrated, retractable sensors.Byton has partn...
Pax’s Clever New App Stops You From Getting Too High
[Product]
2018/06/20 11:35
Pot is increasingly legal, but newb smokers need help. Enter the power of good design to get you high with less risk.Pax, the pocket vaporizer company that’s sold more than 2 million units to date, is announcing a major update to help its customers get high. Called Session Control, it’s an update to the company’s app that lets you set how much you want to vape at once. Previously, you could...
(Video) Wingdo Backpack Features a Seat to Unfold Wherever
[Product]
2018/06/20 11:35
Portuguese startup releases a piece every traveler desires — a wingdo backpack which turns into a seat. made of durable fabrics, the bag features an aluminum frame to support your back while the seat is unfolded.The simple wingdo becomes a seat with just one sweep — the cushion covered with durable and waterproof cordura fabric reveals from the backpack and lets you sit outdoors, be it a beac...
Blackberry's New Concept Phone is Perfect for Their Target Audience
[Design]
2018/06/20 11:35
The Blackberry has always maintained its reputation of being the ideal businessman’s phone. It’s handy and useful, comes with all the apps you need to stay productive, doesn’t distract with games or social apps, is quite secure, and until the touchscreen trend took over, it had its own qwerty keyboard that made typing out emails on the phone a literal breeze… however, somewhere down the lin...
(Patent) Apple Patent is for an Autonomous Vehicle Guidance System
[Tech]
2018/06/19 11:26
Apple Invents an Autonomous Vehicle Guidance System that Recognizes Intent Signals from Authorized Drivers.Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to systems and algorithms for using various types of signals from authorized Drivers for controlling the motion of autonomous or partially autonomous vehicles. Considering that the patent was...
(PDF) Deloitte - Executing an Open Innovation Model
[Business]
2018/06/19 11:25
Cooperation is key to competition for biopharmaceutical companies.Biopharma companies’ reliance on a traditional, closed R&D model might stifle true innovation. However, companies that adopt a cooperative, open innovation framework are likely to spur product development, speed time to market, reduce costs, and increase competitiveness.Executing an open innovation modelMany biopharmaceutica...
