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Buzzy British augmented-reality startup Blippar has collapsed into administration.
It crumbled after Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional blocked an emergency cash injection from another shareholder, property tycoon Nick Candy.
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Berlin -
Internet giant Google confirmed Thursday morning it is abandoning plans to establish a campus for tech startups in Berlin after protests from residents worried about gentrification.
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EIT Digital has named Europe's ten best deep technology scaleups. This was part of the fifth edition of the EIT Digital Challenge. The winners were named during a final pitch event in Brussels.
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Copenhagen -
Next week the world’s leading event in sustainable energy innovation, The Business Booster, will take place in Copenhagen from 17-18 October. Attendees will gain insight into more than 150 sustainable energy start-ups - under one roof.
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Each week hundreds of new startups are launched. Many of these will fail, a few will succeed. Working out those with the best prospects can be challenging. To assist with this, ten of this week's hottest startups are presented.
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San Francisco -
Once upon a time, telemarketing reigned supreme. Today, it’s dying a slow death before our very eyes. Budgets are being slashed, personnel are being reassigned or let go and fewer and fewer prospects are actually picking up the phone to answer calls.
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A new survey seeks to understand the impact of digital disruption on incumbent, non-digitally native organizations. The report predicts that these firms will become the next major tranche of digital disruptors.
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Toronto -
NEXT Canada ran their 2018 Demo Day, which took place on Tuesday, August 14, with the focus of this year's event is on 12 early-stage startups, drawn from across a wide range of industries.
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Motion-gesture technology is set to take over where voice-recognition technology left off as the new frontier of human-machine interaction, and Canadian startup Motion Gestures says it wants to bring this tech into the consumer mainstream.
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ProjectDiane publishes a report every two years that provides a closer look at the state of black female founders in the US.
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Israel’s PlantArcBio has isolated the genes that help desert organisms survive. Now, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will test the genes’ impact on soybean yields.
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The United States Department of Defense has launched a new competition, with prize money, to "(link) innovators directly with the army to spur innovation."
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Toronto -
Toronto is becoming synonymous with innovative technology startups and there’s talk about the city coming to rival Silicon Valley. A spokesperson from startup support community OneEleven helps interpret this dynamic.
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Toronto -
OneEleven is ready to welcome Toronto’s startup community and technology innovators to its fifth annual Technology Summer Social, an event that takes place on July 19.
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The insurance industry may not be entirely prepared for digital transformation, but insurtech is coming. Here are a few of the startups disrupting the insurance industry.
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Raleigh -
Valencell, the leading innovator in wearable biometric sensor technology, announced on June 13, it has secured $10.5 million in Series E financing.
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A study released by the Boston Consulting Group and MassChallenge found that female-founded startups receive less than half as much as their male counterparts, but do more with the money they're given.
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The past seven days saw some truly massive funding rounds across all sectors. From a new way to sell property to an insurtech startup, here are three big winners from this week.
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A University of Toronto study found that the Canadian innovation sector is lagging behind the U.S. because of the amount of money being invested into the space, and at what rate startup companies get that money.
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By AFP
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African high-tech startups are minuscule compared with their US and European peers but they are finally gaining momentum and attention in some of the world's most promising economies.
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One of the UK's best-funded startups, augmented reality firm Blippar, is abandoning Silicon Valley after shutting its third office in the space of two years.
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A venture capital firm that invests in "underestimated" and underrepresented founders has just announced a new $36 million fund that will invest exclusively in black female founders.
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We have talked about grocery shopping in the past and how it has changed in the digital age. But besides bringing the shopping experience online for customers, there are other technologies having an impact on the industry.
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Microfiber pollution is unknown to most people, but they pose a risk to our marine and freshwater aquatic habitats and humans. Several products have come on the market recently that tackle this problem, one laundry room at a time.
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This week saw Apple acquire Canada-based Buddybuild, a cloud service for building, testing, and deploying mobile apps and Microsoft purchased cloud solutions and data platform Avere Systems.
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Kelowna -
Kelowna, British Columbia is becoming a Canadian hub for the high-tech industry. Not only are local entrepreneurs launching start-ups, but established companies are moving to the Okanagan Lake city.
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Quebec -
Canadian Insurtech company Ubios has been selected to join an accelerator program in the U.S., established to assist startups attempting to disrupt the insurance sector.
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The future of improved telecommunications services is being driven by startups. From AI integration to cloud security, startups are showing big telcos how to innovate through the use of digital tools and grow the industry.
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The fintech arena is perhaps the fastest growing area of all digital disruption technologies. This is most notable with those firms offering artificial intelligence solutions that take on or support big banks.
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Peter Thiel, an influential investor who drew ire from many in the tech community due to his fervent support for President Donald Trump, has left his role at Y Combinator.
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"Digital transformation is the change associated with the application of digital technology in all aspects of human society," Wikipedia. Digital Journal
Shiva Bhardwaj presents Pitstop Predictive Maintenance at INFINITI Lab Toronto.
During Lab's panel discussion, Mayor John Tory and INFINITI's Dane Fisher spoke of the need for cities to embrace startup culture.
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Photo-coverage from mesh13, Canada's premier digital conference
File Photo: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the OneEleven offices in Toronto, the company helping Canada’s most promising, high-growth startups commercialize their technologies. PMO
NEXT Canada's Venture Day featured some of Canada's most promising startups. NEXT Canada
Photo from Canada's digital conference
People now live in a world where mobile digital office is everywhere. Digital Journal
Digital transformation is the transformation of business to the concept of "going paperless", which affects the whole segments of economy and society.
Photo-coverage from mesh13, Canada's premier digital conference
Seen here with Michael Gerber of "The E-Myth" Business Coach turned author learned a lot from Gerber. Courtesy of Alex Alexander
Elevate Toronto CEO Razor Suleman says it's Toronto's time to shine. Digital Journal Staff
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