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Brazilian tech innovation sector booming despite political and economic crisis

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

by Leonardo Dicker Although the ongoing political unrest helped drag the national economy to a steep recession in the past couple of years, the tech innovation and startup sector has…

New super materials: mile-wide breakthroughs, one atom thick

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

New super materials: mile-wide breakthroughs, one atom thick

Researchers from the University of Vienna in Austria reported in Nature Materials the discovery of a new super material, Carbyne. Created inside a Thermos tube of graphene, Carbyne is said to be stronger than both graphene and diamond, and around twice as stiff as the stiffest known materials. First isolated in 2004 by two Noble…

My audience or yours? The “on-demand audience” challenge

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

Facebook and LinkedIn do it. Outbrain and Taboola do it. AppleNews, Medium, Tumblr, Flipboard, and a million community content sites do it. It’s called vertical publishing, the game-changing approach…

Innovation in life sciences, genomics and precision medicine

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

One of the keynote addresses at next month’s Health 2.0 Conference in Barcelona will address the topic of personalized health and care in 2020, and how data and technology can…

Health 2.0: connecting the dots between technology, care providers and patients

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

The connected health ecosystem is growing rapidly, with the rise in wearable technologies and internet of things (IoT). In addition, over 50 percent of hospitals now use three or more…

Philadelphia as the Silicon Valley of health tech innovation

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

by Takara Small Is Philadelphia the Silicon Valley of health tech innovation? If local investors and healthcare providers have their way, it could be. The area already has a reputation…

Europe can create scale-ups, as shown by new list of Europe’s high growth 50 tech companies

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

It is often quoted that the European innovation and entrepreneur ecosystem is unable to create startup companies that can scale-up significantly in the same way that the US is able…

Space agency IP portfolio opened to spur development

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

Contrary to common belief, NASA did not invent Tang, Velcro or Teflon. But NASA tech spin-offs do include memory foam, insulin pumps, water filters, freeze-dried food, firefighting equipment, emergency space…

The Bloomberg global TMT brief #5

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Richard Wallace |

Companies and topics in this issue of the Bloomberg global TMT brief from Chris Lowe include MindMaze and its electronic headsets for stroke patients, IBM’s latest health tech acquisition, Snapdeal, Apple…