October 9, 2024

Our Earth Tax | Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department and more...

Our Earth Tax | Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department and more...

> Patagonia now has a VP for environmental activism. Wish other corporate organizations especially oil companies, food companies etc. would follow suit. Wishful thinking isn't it??
https://goo.gl/ycgtZQ

> Today's Bell Labs ARE Google X, Uber Labs and the likes. They need researchers if they are serious about disrupting existing businesses. This piece on how Uber went and recruited the entire Robotics team of CMU is a peek into how this will pan out.
http://goo.gl/JQbqqz

> The convergence of tech and medicine is happening fast and Google is betting heavily to take a lead.
http://goo.gl/3w2h4B

> A new spate of start-ups is creating actionable threat intelligence that can be used by banks, financial service companies and governments to protect themselves against potential hackers. Gartner predicts that the market for threat intelligence will expand to $1 billion in two years.
http://goo.gl/ZtQUkI

> Dlibert nails seed investing!
https://goo.gl/yJVppQ

> Interesting strategy to move from search to services. But search is monetized through ads which have high margin while services are typically cost plus. Is Baidu 's valuation justified then??
http://goo.gl/Lt3DjF

> Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced a town hall with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India could be one of Internet.org's biggest markets with its huge capitalization.
http://goo.gl/uUhqUP

> John Krafcik former Hyundai President and Chief Executive Officer will head Google X's Self-Driving Car project. Parent company Alphabet may spin out the division soon.
http://goo.gl/13uytg

> Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of Late Steve Jobs is crowd-sourcing new ideas on education. She joins Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as well as Bill and Melinda Gates who are also pushing for large scale reform in education
http://goo.gl/pb94aw