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GM To Acquire Self-Driving Kit Developer Cruise Automation
Mar 15, 2016General Motors announced that it is acquiring Cruise Automation, a startup company that makes self-driving kits for certain types of cars. With this deal, General Motors will add Cruise Automation's software talent and rapid ...
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Goldman Sachs-LED Group S Set to Invest Krw40bn
Nov 28, 2014American multinational investment banking firm Goldman Sachs-led group of investors is set to invest KRW40bn ($36.1m) in South Korea's largest online and mobile food ordering service. The country's most popular food-delivery service is ...
Tags: Online Food Startup, Agriculture
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Ompanies That Endured The Waves of Economic Disruption Have Gained Maturity
Oct 27, 2014The bio-based materials and chemicals industry is poised to attract nearly $1 billion in investment this year, led notably by later-stage funding rounds, according to Lux Research. The estimated $974 million investment represents a 28 ...
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Health R&D Spending Moves Slowly Upward Driven by Industry
Dec 20, 2013Health R&D Spending Moves Slowly Upward, Driven by Industry, Philanthropy and Voluntary Health Associations Federal R&D Funding Remains "Woefully Inadequate" to Address Health Threats and Global Competitiveness ?Highlights: ?Overall ...
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Health-related R&D Spending in The U.S.Increased by $4.3 Billion in FY11-12
Dec 20, 2013After declining in FY10-11,health-related research and development(R&D)spending in the U.S.increased by$4.3 billion(3.5%)in FY11-12,according to Truth and Consequences:Health R&D Spending in the U.S.(FY11-12),the 10th edition from ...
Tags: Health R&D Spending, R&D of Health
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Current Solar Technologies Will Not Meet The "Sunshot" Targets of Us$1/W by Lux Research
Oct 9, 2013A look at disruptive solar innovations finds that technologies built around crystalline silicon (x-Si) modules are the most likely to find commercial success even though they will not meet the "SunShot" targets of US$1/W installed set by ...
Tags: Solar Technologies, Energy
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The Large Corporations Must Partner with Academia to Innovate
Sep 26, 2013Analyst: existing solar tech to miss 'SunShot' goal 25 Sep 2013 Lux Research says that large corporations must partner with academia to innovate. PV adoption roadmap through 2030 The US Department of Energy's ambitious "SunShot" ...
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Nginx Is Releasing a Commercial Edition of Its Namesake Open Source Web Server Software
Aug 22, 2013Nginx is releasing a commercial edition of its namesake open source Web server software, called Nginx Plus, which it will market as a software alternative to application delivery controllers (ADCs). "The features that have been added are ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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Yahoo Has Concluded a $1.1bn Deal to Acquire Tumblr
May 21, 2013Yahoo has concluded a $1.1bn (£725m) deal to acquire Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, which achieved revenues of just $13m (£8.56m) in its last financial year. The deal is the largest undertaken by ...
Tags: Computer Products, Yahoo
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Twitter Has Acquired Lucky Sort
May 16, 2013Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a Portland, Oregon-based start-up with a data visualisation engine that helps to discover patterns in live data streams. Lucky Sort's chief executive officer, Noah Pepper, announced the news on the ...
Tags: Twitter, Computer Products
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Self-Destruct After 10 Seconds :a Sort of Security Idea to Help Secure Online Transactions
May 6, 2013The popular Snapchat photo-messaging app used mainly by Android and iOS mobile device owners to share images that then self-destruct after 10 seconds is the sort of security idea that businesses say can help them secure online transactions ...
Tags: Companies, Self-Detonating Data
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Funds Have Sold Their Stakes in Javelin Semiconductor Inc of Austin
Apr 27, 2013Investors Silverton Partners and Sevin Rosen Funds have sold their stakes in Javelin Semiconductor Inc of Austin, TX, USA, which was one of the first firms to develop 3G wireless communications power amplifiers (PAs) based on ...
Tags: CMOS PAs, Electronics
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Yahoo Announced Monday That It Is Buying Summly, a London-Based Company
Mar 26, 2013Yahoo announced Monday that it is buying Summly, a London-based company that developed an app that condenses information and makes it easily and quickly readable on mobile devices. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but it ...
Tags: Yahoo, Mobile App Company, Computer
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Pay Rates for Software Engineers Are Defying The Downturn Amid Concerns
Dec 28, 2012Pay rates for software engineers are defying the downturn amid concerns that the UK faces a growing shortage of skilled programming professionals. Over a quarter of in-house software engineers have seen pay rises of 10%or more during the ...
Tags: software engineers, pay rates, UK
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Tower Bridge in London Receives Olympic LED Makeover 31 May
Dec 26, 2012Tower Bridge in London receives Olympic LED makeover 31 May In preparation for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games,London's Tower Bridge has been fitted with an LED lighting system from GE.Philips Ledalite announces TruGroove LED-based ...
Tags: Tower Bridge in London, LED