Technology company’s shares priced above previous rangeTwilio Inc. raised more than it expected in its initial public offering, an optimistic sign for the dozens of other technology companies that have been valued at more than $1 billion in private fundraising.The San Francisco company’s IPO priced at $15 each, raising $150 million by selling 10 million shares, the company said in a release l...

Summer has officially arrived, and many consumers across the U.S. are finalizing their seasonal travel plans or have already embarked on their summer vacations. With school out of session and the weather more pleasant, summer nearly always tends to see a boost in travel activity. Interestingly, consumers’ online activity reflects this ‘real-life’ behavior quite accurately, as we see an incre...

Temporary urban "hacks" are restoring life to quiet areas.Most small architecture interventions in cities require a well-trafficked area to actually get implemented. But the enterprising experiments of NO studio, which is a collaboration between Polish designers Magda Szwajcowska and Michal Majewski, brought attention to forgotten corners in the city of Wrocław during the Lower-Silesian Festiv...

The industry needs to change; here’s how to manage it.The construction industry is ripe for disruption. Large projects across asset classes typically take 20 percent longer to finish than scheduled and are up to 80 percent over budget (Exhibit 1). Construction productivity has actually declined in some markets since the 1990s (Exhibit 2); financial returns for contractors are often relatively...

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a system that uses a depth-sensing camera and a deep-learning network to translate physical hand movements into VR environments. The VR arms race is in full flight, and hands seem to be the next front line in the battle, whether that's fought with infrared cameras, electromagnetic sensors, handheld controllers like those used by the HTC Vive, Play...

It seems patients aren’t quite getting the message when their doctors recommend incorporating wearables and other fitness trackers into their lives.About 30,000 US patients were asked if their primary care provider had recommended using wearables, in a Nielsen study (pdf) commissioned by the Council for Accountable Physician Practices (CAPP). Only 4% said yes. The year before, Nielsen posed th...

German beer Bergedorfer Beer wanted to embody its slogan, “Brewed with love”, in its ads, and what better way to show it than through an intimate moment between mother-to-be and her unborn child? Except in this case, the company used fathers-to-be proudly gazing down at their beer belly. After all, what more does a man love more than beer? Apparently, according to Bergedorfer Beer, nothing. [...

The Rolls-Royce led Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) today published a whitepaper to coincide with its presentations at the Autonomous Ship Technology Symposium 2016 in Amsterdam. The whitepaper outlines the Project’s vision of how remote and autonomous shipping will become a reality.Speaking at the Symposium Oskar Levander, Rolls-Royce, Vice President of Innovatio...

You can already read a news article and order a cab from a bot, so it was only a matter of time until you could place a weed order through one.Over the past couple of months, Canna Freedom—a dispensary located in Monterey, Calif.,—has been experimenting with a chat bot within Flok, a mobile app that works with 50,000 businesses to power their loyalty programs to improve customer service and u...