(M&A) Cisco Acquires Conversational AI Startup MindMeld for $125 Million
[Investing]
2017/05/16 11:27
This morning Cisco announced that it is buying MindMeld for $125 million. Founded in 2011, MindMeld helps businesses to build conversational interfaces with cloud-based services.MindMeld, originally called Expect Labs, was launched on the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012. At that time the startup wanted to build an iPad app that could listen in on your conversations and provide relevant cont...
Apple - Predictably Profitable, Unpredictably Valuable
[Investing]
2017/05/16 11:27
Predicting Apple’s yearly revenues has been fairly easy. The following graph shows the relationship between budgeted spending on Machinery, Equipment, Internal-use software, Land & Buildings and the shipment of iOS device revenues.The company conveniently publishes a full-year forecast of these expenditures every fiscal year so by October we know roughly how sales will be during the follow...
Sympfiny System for Dispensing Multiparticulate Medications
[Product]
2017/05/16 11:27
Multiparticulate medications can consist of beads, mini-tablets and microspheres encased in a coating that hides their flavor and prevents them from being dissolved before they reach the stomach. Benefits include the ability to make these medications have just about any flavor, to make them release the drug at a pre-programmed rate, and even release it in regular bursts.Because these medication...
High Definition Dental Care - MTG Dental Camera
[Design]
2017/05/16 11:26
How are you supposed to keep your teeth in tiptop shape if you can’t see ’em?! It’s an unreal expectation… until now! The MTG Dental Camera is specialized to link patients with dentists without the need for inconvenient office visits.The system is like SnapChat for dental care! The camera works with a mobile app which allows the patients to take pictures of their teeth whenever they are exp...
(Infographic) How 5 Tech Giants Make Their Billions
[Business]
2017/05/15 10:40
The Revenue Streams of the Five Largest Tech Companies.Here are the latest market valuations for those same five companies:Together, they are worth $2.9 trillion in market capitalization – and they combined in FY2016 for revenues of $555 billion with a $94 billion bottom line.BRINGING HOME THE BACON?Despite all being at the top of the stock market food chain, the companies are at very differen...
(PDF) Russian Scientists Slowed Down Aging
[Tech]
2017/05/15 10:40
A new study by Lomonosov Moscow State University and Stockholm University focuses on the role of mitochondria in the aging of organisms. According to researchers, the study opens the way to the treatment of aging with mitochondrially targeted antioxidants.Synthetic compound developed in the Moscow State University slows down aging of mice with mutatingA group of Russian and Swedish scientists j...
(PDF) Mckinsey - What’s New with The Internet of Things ?
[Business]
2017/05/15 10:40
Adoption of the Internet of Things is proceeding more slowly than expected, but semiconductor companies can help accelerate growth through new technologies and business models.Niccolò Machiavelli, one of history’s great futurists, might have predicted the Internet of Things (IoT) when he wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in i...
(M&A) Apple Acquires Lattice Data for $200M (Their Third Major AI Company in 3 Years)
[Investing]
2017/05/15 10:40
Apple acquires AI company Lattice Data, a specialist in unstructured ‘dark data’, for $200MLast Summer Apple acquired Turi a Seattle based artificial intelligence (AI) start-up for roughly $200 million. The year before that Apple acquired Vocal IQ whose artificial intelligence focused on specific markets such as automotive via Auto-Pilot Driver Assistance, wearable devices, smart homes and ro...
Photorealistic 3D Body Scanner Could Change How We Measure Health - Shapescale
[Product]
2017/05/15 10:39
A typical scale gives us a measure of our weight, which many of us take as an indication of how healthy we are. However, there are so many more factors in determining our health. Recognizing this problem, Alex Wayenberg and Martin Kesller decided to create a personal body scanner and scale that gives an accurate reading and realistic visual of our bodies. Shapescale gives an in-depth view of ho...
This Bus-Stop Ad for The Young Pope Gives Off Puffs of White Smoke
[Business]
2017/05/15 10:39
In addition to being the first-ever American Pope, the youngest one, and Jude Law, The Young Pope’s got a big responsibility on his shoulders: Keeping HBO rolling in viewership while Game of Thrones takes a dragon nap.Its capacity to do this from a storytelling perspective is debatable (even if it’s already given us a delightful collection of memes), but its launches in other countries have p...
Chinese Millennials Increasingly Use Smartphone Apps to Buy Homes Abroad - Uoolu
[Business]
2017/05/15 10:39
Millennials acquire real estate in other countries as hedge against a weakening currency, homes for their own children when they study abroad.Zheng Xiaohei, a marketer from Urumqi in western China, made his first overseas property investment without so much as a visit.Mr. Zheng, 29 years old, in March purchased a studio apartment in Thailand for about 650,000 yuan ($94,255) using his smartphone...
Thomas Dambo Hides Six 'Forgotten Giants' Across the Danish Woodland
[Design]
2017/05/15 10:38
In often overlooked wooded areas on the outskirts of copenhagen, danish artist thomas dambo has installed six, oversized ‘forgotten giants’. Forming an artistic, open air treasure hunt for the public to experience and enjoy, dambo’s huge wooden creatures are ‘hidden’ in rødovre, hvidovre, vallensbæk, ishøj, albertslund and høje taastrup. all six sculptures have been carefully crafted f...
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