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Why initial coin offerings are exploding – and how companies can avoid the landmines

By Robert Hof Aug 25, 2017

Every other day, it seems, a new startup is raising millions of dollars by selling cryptocurrency coins or tokens to raise money — lots of money, really fast. In May, for instance, Web browser…

Cloud

Fillr proposes a cloud-based solution to the plague of abandoned shopping carts

By Paul Gillin Aug 25, 2017

Autofill is one of the most ordinary applications most of us ever use. Every browser has a function that can automatically populate web forms. So do most password managers and dozens of plug-ins and…

Emerging Tech

Google open-sources speech command dataset for TensorFlow

By Eric David Aug 25, 2017

Alphabet Inc.’s TensorFlow machine learning framework and AIY do-it-yourself artificial intelligence teams have released a dataset of more than 65,000 utterances of 30 different speech commands, giving developers a powerful toolset to implement their own simple…

Big Data

Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal

By Paul Gillin Aug 25, 2017

Apache Kafka has a reputation as a lightweight, fast and highly scalable message broker, which passes data between applications. But one feature has frustrated users over the five years since the platform graduated from its…

Big Data

Descartes Labs raises $30M for its satellite data platform

By Maria Deutscher Aug 25, 2017

It’s estimated that about 9,000 satellites will be launched into orbit over the next decade, six times the number sent up during the previous 10 years. Those new platforms will gather a massive amount…

Women in Tech

Blocking the ad blocker with smarter digital, social marketing

By R. Danes Aug 25, 2017

Despite the mountain of software tools and social platforms made available to marketers in recent years, conversion rates haven’t budged. E-Commerce conversion rates in the current year are 2.5 percent, according to Statista…

Apps

Google rolls out search feature to help people determine if they’re clinically depressed

By James Farrell Aug 25, 2017

Google Inc.and the National Alliance on Mental Illness want to help with the American epidemic of depression by rolling out a feature that will allow people to screen themselves online more easily. A Google mobile…

Emerging Tech

Animals are lesser than humans in proposed German self-driving car ethics law

By Duncan Riley Aug 24, 2017

Animals are lesser beings than humans. That’s the biggest takeaway from a newly proposed law in Germany that defines ethical standards with self-driving cars. The new law, proposed by the German Federal Ministry of…

Emerging Tech

HP and Deloitte bid to transform manufacturing with 3D printing

By Mike Wheatley Aug 24, 2017

HP Inc. is teaming up with the U.K.-based consultancy firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. in order to promote the use of its 3D printing technology in manufacturing. The PC maker will work with Deloitte…

Apps

Co-working firm WeWork raises a staggering $4.4B from Softbank

By Duncan Riley Aug 24, 2017

Co-working space provider WeWork Inc. has raised a staggering $4.4 billion in a venture capital round raised from Japanese telco giant the SoftBank Group and its venture capital subsidiary, the SoftBank Vision Fund. The round is split a…

the latest

Why initial coin offerings are exploding – and how companies can avoid the landmines

Fillr proposes a cloud-based solution to the plague of abandoned shopping carts

Google open-sources speech command dataset for TensorFlow

Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal

Descartes Labs raises $30M for its satellite data platform

Blocking the ad blocker with smarter digital, social marketing

Google rolls out search feature to help people determine if they’re clinically depressed

Animals are lesser than humans in proposed German self-driving car ethics law

HP and Deloitte bid to transform manufacturing with 3D printing

Co-working firm WeWork raises a staggering $4.4B from Softbank

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