Editor’s note: Court Turner was a speaker in the bootcamp for biotechnology entrepreneurship at this week’s BIO 2014 Convention in San Diego. —BVB By Court Turner Xconomy As a venture partner at San Diego’s Avalon Ventures, I divide my… Read More
Forbes There has been much attention given recently to indoor positioning systems and the value they bring to application and device creators. Apple ’s iBeacon initiative is perhaps the best known example – the technology enables push notifications to be sent to… Read More
VentureBeat Kia Kokalitcheva Cute little drones are really cool right now — Box’s Aaron Levie even brought one out onstage at the BoxDev conference two months ago for no reason other than to entertain the audience. In fact, they’re so… Read More
Written by: Juliana Casale, Content Marketing Manager @Nanigans The transition between one season to the next is a retailer’s time to shine when it comes to eCommerce. The Facebook News Feed and Right Hand Side are valuable real estate… Read More
Leading Video Platform Adds Wowza Streaming Engine™ to Give Customers Seamless Live Video Delivery and Advanced Live Video Capabilities May 13, 2014 New York City, NY and Evergreen, Co Wowza® Media Systems and Kaltura today announced a new partnership that… Read More
by Nell Greenfieldboyce For the first time, scientists have expanded life’s genetic alphabet, by inserting two unnatural, man-made “letters” into a bacterium’s DNA, and by showing that the cell’s machinery can copy them. The advance means that scientists have a… Read More
Enables Business Listings, Directories and Software Providers to Immediately Capture Consumers’ Intent to Purchase BOSTON, May 07, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) Creating an entirely new e-commerce layer, Pingup today announced the industry’s first mobile API that enables directories and software providers… Read More
First example of in vivo replication of a synthetic DNA base pair published in Nature SAN DIEGO, May 7, 2014 — /PRNewswire/ — Synthorx Inc. announced today the official launch of the company, which will be focused on using synthetic… Read More
Once-secret project developed by Juliet Marine Systems By Jennifer Crompton WMUR Channel 9 New Hampshire STRATHAM, N.H. —A Seacoast entrepreneur said that after terrorists bombed the USS Cole in 2000, he wanted to do something to help. What resulted is… Read More
TV Technology Volicon and Kaltura today announced a technology partnership that enables an end-to-end workflow for bringing live broadcast capture and captioning to the full range of digital and social media platforms quickly and cost-effectively. The companies’ integrated solution unites… Read More
Kids can now access full-length episodes on the move using the OTT video platform. Mobile Entertainment by Phil Tottman Sesame Street has announced Sesame GO – a new subscription service that provides an ad-free platform in-which kids can access… Read More
Digital Journal Kaltura, the leading open source video platform, announced today that it has released its Smart Video Monetization Suite, the most advanced, comprehensive set of video monetization tools available from a single provider. The Suite includes in-player advertising –… Read More
by Joe Mandese, Media Post At a time when Madison Avenue is shifting toward a device-centric view of consumers, some key parts of the ad industry’s supply chain are unifying around a single source to measure and analyze the so-called… Read More
by Pankaj Mishra TechCrunch Indix is among a growing breed of startups that are helping consumer brands tackle the challenges of real-time commerce. On one hand, online retailers such as Amazon are pushing the limits with ideas such as “anticipatory”… Read More
Six teams in six cities took to the streets to put ride-sharing apps to the test Wall Street Journal Sometimes, it’s OK to get in a stranger’s car. Using apps, tens of thousands of people every day pay for rides… Read More
Washington Post By Mohana Ravindranath IBM on Monday announced an agreement to acquire Cloudant, a Boston-based tech company providing Internet-based database services. Financial terms were not disclosed. Cloudant’s technology — which helps developers create mobile and Web apps — involves… Read More
ARMONK, N.Y. – 24 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. … Read More
CNN By Lauren Hockenson (gigaom.com) — Ride-sharing app Sidecar launched a new marketplace model on Wednesday that allows users to connect with drivers in new ways, including naming a price and “favoriting” drivers. The company also announced a $10 million Series… Read More
IBM Beacon Awards recognize IBM Business Partners for driving business value with smart, innovative solutions. PR Web NoSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider Cloudant was named a winner of a 2014 IBM Beacon Award for Best IBM SoftLayer-based Cloud Solution. Each year,… Read More