Uber's Revenue Hits $6.5 Billion In 2016
According to Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies generated $6.5 billion in revenue last year and its gross bookings doubled to $20 billion. As a private company that is now worth $68 billion, Uber...
View ArticleWhiteland Community High School robotics team finds success in inaugural year
One year ago, robotics enthusiasts at Whiteland Community High School had no outlet for their interest. Other schools in the area had robotics programs, but Whiteland hadn’t started one. So a motivated...
View ArticleNew report shares details about the warehouse robotics industry forecast to 2022
Global Warehouse Robotics Industry Report covering market by types, Regions, Application, and leading vendor’s profile based on sales, price, sales regions, products, profile. Global Warehouse Robotics...
View ArticleInternet and computing pioneer Robert Taylor dies
The technology world just lost one of its most prominent innovators. Robert Taylor, best known as the mastermind of ARPAnet (the internet’s precursor), has died at 85. As the director of the US...
View ArticleUnderstanding Cybersecurity, Beyond the Russian Hacking Scandal
It’s difficult for anything to cross international borders faster than digital information. But the convenience of technology that allows more than 2.6 million emails, nearly 60,000 Google searches and...
View ArticleA Latino Is Called To Help The Tech-Sun Rise In Arizona
He did it in Boulder, Colorado. He did it in Silicon Valley, California. Now he’s been tapped — called — to help accelerate the startup scene in Tucson, Arizona. Remy Arteaga was the subject of several...
View ArticlePatent troll with an “Internet Drink Mixer” and a nonexistent office could be...
This February, Garmin International got sued (PDF) by inventor Leigh Rothschild and his patent-holding company, Rothschild Connected Devices Innovations LLC (RCDI). RCDI had already sued 68 other...
View ArticleApple receives permit in California to test self-driving cars – DMV
REUTERS – Apple Inc has secured a permit to test autonomous vehicles in California, fueling speculation that it is working on self-driving car technology in a crowded arena of companies hoping to offer...
View ArticleEx-Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins: We're 'beginning to see some Uber moments' in...
Former Barclays Chief Executive Antony Jenkins. Andrew Matthews/PA Wire LONDON — Former Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins believes the global financial system is beginning to undergo the “Uber moments” he...
View ArticleCummings Says Nimbaians Deserve Proper Healthcare
Residents cheerfully welcome Mr. Cummings (center) with entourage to Sanniquellie Alexander B. Cummings, opposition political leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), has said that the people...
View ArticleA startup CEO who watched his 84-year-old mother struggle after leaving the...
John Kao’s mother was having a heart attack. The now-84-year-old called her son on a Sunday two years ago, Kao recalls, telling him to come over. By the time he made the 15-minute drive, the paramedics...
View ArticleProcedures for Dental Implants
Well, a dental implant is a proven technology to replace a missing tooth. If the patient presents with the tooth present, the option is to plan the procedure so that we remove the tooth, and at the...
View ArticleFinancial Technology Start-Ups to Get a License to Bank
Regulators are planning to create a new type of banking license that will allow upstart financial technology companies to expand more quickly across the country. The plans for the new type of bank...
View ArticleDisruptive Innovation vs Incremental Improvement
Christensen has repeatedly said that not all disruptive innovations are successful. Looking at the above statements, it’s not hard to see why. In healthcare if patients or physicians do not buy into a...
View ArticleMassachusetts Announces $5M Grant to Launch Digital Health Innovation Lab
Governor Karyn Polito joined executives from GE for the announcement of a $5 million grant from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative toward the construction of a new digital health innovation lab...
View ArticleYour 2017 Guide to The Alternative Minimum Tax
The alternative minimum tax, or AMT … You are still allowed to use the deductions for mortgage interest (but not on home equity loans), as well as charitable contributions, when calculating your AMT....
View ArticleHow Payday Lenders and Check Cashers Help the Poor
There are more payday lenders in the U.S. than there are McDonald’s locations and Starbucks combined. Yet their business practice of charging extremely high fees and interest rates is widely condemned....
View ArticleInterval Funds: Pros & Cons of an Alternative Investment You May Have Never...
Those markets include catastrophe bonds, hedge funds, real estate securities and small-business loans. Other reasons to own interval … trying to find the next alternative investment,” said Cole...
View ArticleSeychelles: IFC, Central Bank Promote Leasing as Investment Financing Tool
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, the Central Bank of Seychelles and the Seychelles Investment Board, have conducted a two-day investment forum to promote leasing as an alternative financing tool....
View ArticleFactorTrusts FlexFormat™: First Industry Standard for Credit Reporting for...
As part of its continued commitment to the needs of short-term lenders and the alternative financial services industry, FactorTrust announced today FlexFormat, the first industry standard in reporting...
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