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I could wax poetic about how even garbage truck manufacturers have to continually innovate to stay ahead of their increasingly international competition, or I could tell you how our desire for fuel efficiency has given cars made out of lightweight materials more easily capable of being crushed. Hell, I could[...]
Paypal’s Here service is serious about taking the mobile payments war straight to Square, and yesterday’s announcement was a major escalation in that war. You can now get your Paypal Here processing free for the remainder of 2013. No processing fees for the rest of the year. That’s a big[...]
Yesterday Microsoft announced that they have enabled Google Talk functionality on their Outlook mail service. This means live messaging with your Google contacts while you are anywhere inside the Outlook or even SkyDrive services. To say the least, this is an unexpected move for Redmond to make. The blogosphere has[...]
That Batman is the greatest hero ever invented in the history of great heroes is an undebatable and widely known fact. It’s basically science. What is less well known is that he is also a branding genius. Batarangs, the Batmobile, the Batcave – Batman has done what any good branding[...]
The YouTube paid subscriptions announcement last week ruffled quite a few feathers in the blogosphere and many predictions on the impending death of cable TV. In short, YouTube is now allowing a select group of 53 premium video channels to erect a paywall of at least .99/mo for their content.[...]
Neo-EV automaker Tesla is the toast of the town this week. The company released news that they have achieved their first quarterly profit ever, and as a result the stock price soared $20 to $72.30/share in after-hours trading. Yesterday, notoriously fickle magazine Consumer Reports gave the Model S a score[...]
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a modern-day scourge, with more lives lost in the US to these superbugs than are lost to AIDS. One bacteria alone, MRSA, accounts for 19,000 deaths every year. Identifying these strains is key to combating and stopping their spread through the population. Currently, testing takes hours using[...]
There is now another incubator making waves, but unlike so many that claim to be different, Prebacked actually seems to have implemented a novel approach. Rather than teach startups the ropes and help them find companies/customers whose problems they solve, Prebacked solicits problems from companies and sectors and then challenges[...]
This video went up in the first month of 2007 and STILL the ideas espoused within it are rare. How can it be that what Richard Leadbeater calls Open Innovation and the idea that the consumer is no longer passive not have reached every manager in the country yet? The[...]
I think this is the beginning of a massive M&A wave in the YouTube ecosystem So says Mark Terbeek, AwesomenessTV’s lead investor and Board Director. He should know, he just steered AwesomenessTV’s acquisition by DreamWorks for $33M. This marks the first premium YouTube channel to be acquired by a[...]
What you’re looking at here is an honest-to-God 3D printed bionic ear. We’ve covered printed organs before, even printed ears before, but this is a world first for researchers to have successfully implanted functioning electronics during the biological printing process. This bionic ear includes a coiled antenna capable of picking[...]
