December 12, 2019 No Comments bill.com, Emergence Capital, Enterprise, Exit, IPO, payments, SaaS, Startups, TC
Why Bill.com didn’t pursue a direct listing Bill.com went public today after pricing its shares higher than it initially expected. The B2B payments company sold nearly 10 million shares at $22 apiece, raising around $216 million in its IPO. Public investors felt that the company’s price was a deal, sending the value […]
December 12, 2019 No Comments 3d printing, carbon, Hardware, Science, TC
Carbon’s new CEO discusses local manufacturing, funding and a potential IPO Last month, Carbon announced its first new CEO in the company’s history. With $260 million worth of investments and a $2.5 billion, it’s a big job. But Carbon’s 500-person headcount is small potatoes compared to Ellen Kullman’s last gig. For six […]
December 12, 2019 No Comments Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
Why Ring Doorbells Perfectly Exemplify the IoT Security Crisis A new wave of reports about the home surveillance cameras getting hijacked by creeps is painfully familiar. Source: www.wired.com Why Ring Doorbells Perfectly Exemplify the IoT Security Crisis
December 12, 2019 No Comments Science, Science / Environment
Greta Thunberg Blasts ‘Creative PR’ in Her Climate Speech In her latest talk at a major climate change conference, the Swedish activist accused politicians and big business of misleading the public. Source: www.wired.com Greta Thunberg Blasts ‘Creative PR’ in Her Climate Speech
December 12, 2019 No Comments business, Science, Science / Physics and Math
Revolt! Scientists Say They’re Sick of Quantum Computing’s Hype A Twitter account called Quantum Bullshit Detector reflects some researchers’ angst about overhyped claims and other troubling trends. Source: www.wired.com Revolt! Scientists Say They’re Sick of Quantum Computing’s Hype
December 12, 2019 No Comments Ads, Adtech, Advertising, Advertising Tech, Mobile, Pandora, voice
Pandora launches interactive voice ads Pandora has begun to test a new type of advertising format that allows listeners to respond to the ad by speaking aloud. In the new ads, listeners are prompted to say “yes” after the ad asks a question and a tone plays. The ads will then offer […]
December 12, 2019 No Comments Artificial Intelligence, data science, DataRobot, Enterprise, Fundings & Exits, M&A, machine learning, Paxata, Startups, TC
DataRobot is acquiring Paxata to add data prep to machine learning platform DataRobot, a company best known for creating automated machine learning models known as AutoML, announced today that it intends to acquire Paxata, a data prep platform startup. The companies did not reveal the purchase price. Paxata raised a total of […]
December 12, 2019 No Comments Science, Science / Health
Anti-Vape Laws Could Do More Harm Than Good Banning vaping just might drive teens to the black market—and send adult smokers back to their cancer sticks. Source: www.wired.com Anti-Vape Laws Could Do More Harm Than Good
December 12, 2019 No Comments Artificial Intelligence, bigquery, Cloud, cloud analytics, cloud computing, cloud infrastructure, computing, fedex, google, machine learning, petabyte, software as a service, TC, web services
Google makes moving data to its cloud easier Google Cloud today announced Transfer Service, a new service for enterprises that want to move their data from on-premise systems to the cloud. This new managed service is meant for large-scale transfers on the scale of billions of files and petabytes of data. It […]
December 12, 2019 No Comments Ideas
The War on Polio Just Entered Its Most Dangerous Phase Though victory is close, the eradication campaign is on some very fragile ground. Source: www.wired.com The War on Polio Just Entered Its Most Dangerous Phase
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