October 9, 2024

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg pledges refugee camp internet access | Amazon Echo learns some new tricks, can now control Insteon lights and more...

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg pledges refugee camp internet access | Amazon Echo learns some new tricks, can now control Insteon lights and more...

> Facebook is uniquely positioned to help refugees in camps access aid and Mark Zuckerberg fully intends to utilize Facebook to do so. Entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Richard Branson are supporting the campaign.
http://goo.gl/unnjLW

> Amazon and a bunch of other companies are working on creating voice controlled home automation systems, so you can ask your tea-pot for some warm tea, eventually...
http://goo.gl/dQBCZO

> Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that it will install high-speed public Wi-Fi in 400 stations across India making it possible one of the largest projects across the world.
http://goo.gl/BcczkF

> Google, headed by CEO Sundar Pichai is now seventeen!
http://goo.gl/XpW1fm

> Facebook's new advertising products are a bid to tap into the huge market for existing television advertisers.
http://goo.gl/5Tz0Eu

> In a welcome move Yelp has appointed Diane Irvine as its first Chairwoman. This move is a big push for gender equality and comes in the midst of a lack of women on boards.
http://goo.gl/84JNgp

> Gianfranco Casati, Chief Executive - Growth Markets at Accenture believes that India will become a source of innovation for the rest of the world.
http://goo.gl/wib2rU

> Venture Capitalists have a whole menagerie to chase to achieve high exit values and yet they never know what they will eventually come up with - Unicorns, Decacorns, Dragons, Black Swans or Ducklings!
http://goo.gl/Mx0hsG