Volkswagen has launched its own mobility services company, Moia, which will focus primarily on autonomous vehicles. The move will allow the German firm to compete with Uber and Lyft. Moia will connect the car with the new mobility ...
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Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, aims to collaborate with the world’s top technology start-ups, pushing the boundaries of connected lighting for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company has teamed up with Silicon ...
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BMW has detailed its incubator program dubbed BMW Startup Garage, which is designed to tap into the potentials of innovative startups. The automaker also highlighted that, with the program, startups will be able to get in touch with BMW ...
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British automaker Jaguar Land Rover has launched an 'Innovation Incubator' project in Portland, Oregon to support US based technology start-ups in the development of future infotainment technologies. The automaker is planning to ...
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Inkcups Now welcomes Karen Harris to the ICN family. Karen joins the finance organization of Inkcups Now as the new Manager of Finance. Karen brings with her over 25 years of accounting leadership experience. In the past, Karen has worked ...
A noteworthy tripartite initiative to stimulate technology start-ups by Sri Lankan university students and recent graduates gets underway in January 2014 with corporate sponsorship and participatory inputs from Brandix. Sri Lanka’s ...
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Guardian Life Insurance, a mutual life insurer and a provider of employee benefits, has appointed Caitlin Pincus as senior vice president of Strategy & Guardian Labs and Dean Del Vecchio as senior vice president and chief information ...
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Leaders at Tech City firms say their companies are struggling to gain capital, and are sometimes having to make people redundant as a result. A third of Tech City's business leaders said that their companies were hampered by a lack of ...
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INFORMATION technology start-ups have taken the lion's share of the government's innovation funding pool over the last three years. IT companies, mostly in start-up phase stage or in another early stage of operation, accounted for $77 ...
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Google will invest about US$10 million to nurture 10,000 new businesses in five years in India, says a report. Eric E. Schmidt, chairman of Google, will launch this ambitious programme for technology entrepreneurs in this week in New ...
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A cyber-security company was the big winner at a new awards event. The awards were part of a three day event called Innovate UK 2013, which is a joint venture by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) aimed ...
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One of Sweden’s top technology start-ups of 2012, Heliospectra AB, announced today that it has officially launched the L4A Series 10 LED light system aimed at giving researchers an advanced tool for making new discoveries in the plant ...
Business secretary Vince Cable acknowledges that engineering is central to building a strong economy. He was speaking following the publication of an influential new report by the Royal Academy of Engineering which estimates engineering ...
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Amazon will create 100 new jobs at its London-based global digital media development centre. The centre, which is located near The Barbican, opened in September and is home to the design and development teams for Pushbutton and ...
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Virtual Instruments is opening an office in London’s Tech City hub to develop new products and revamp old ones. The building on Rivington Street will initially house 20 software developers, with a further 10 being added by the end ...
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