Startups
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State Street Experiments with Blockchain for Institutional Banking
74A new lab and research partnerships are helping the company make use of blockchain, which has the potential to make financial transactions more efficient. “Efficiency is one goal all banks are searching for,” says Hu Liang, senior managing director of State Street’s emerging technologies center, in an Q&A; with CIO Journal.
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Australian Software-Tools Maker Atlassian Planning U.S. IPO
666Business-software tools maker Atlassian Pty. Ltd., valued at over $3 billion privately, has filed for an IPO and expects to debut on the U.S. markets before the end of the year, people familiar with the deal said.
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See What Critics are Saying About ‘The Intern,’ ‘Everest,’ and More
Read the reviews of several new movies hitting theaters this weekend.
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The Daily Startup: Robotic Eye Surgery Developer Auris Surgical Snags $150M
86A roundup of venture-capital news and analysis from VentureWire and around the Web.
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Silicon Valley Woos India’s Narendra Modi
921The heads of America’s largest technology companies will meet Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi this weekend to discuss how they might contribute to—and benefit from—the continuing Internet revolution in India.
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What U.S. Startup Investors Want From India’s Narendra Modi
729Silicon Valley wants Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver on two of his government’s promises: making it easier to do business with India, and making the country’s taxes more transparent.
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How I Launched a Brewpub in Mumbai: An Expat’s Beer-Soaked Tale
1369A U.S. expat in Mumbai got it into his head to start an American-style microbrewery. Here's his story.
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Quixey Reaches Into Apps To Boost Mobile Commerce
360Advertisers have spent $69 billion on mobile ads this year so far, many of them geared to persuade consumers to make an immediate purchase. Yet few mobile users buy through their phones. .
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Oculus VR Adds TV, Movies and Games
242Facebook’s Oculus virtual-reality unit is lining up additional content, including movies and games, ahead of the planned launch of its consumer headset early next year.
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GM CEO Barra Says Company Is on Track to Improve Performance
168General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra said the auto maker continues to act with urgency even after resolving major facets of its ignition-switch crisis and said her focus is steadfast on improving profit margins.
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Cyber Risk Isn’t Always in the Computer
1336The threat posed by hackers to computers is well known, but less understood is how hackers can bring down a network by targeting the underlying equipment that support a data center.
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Live Video Is the New Data Hog
489Watching and broadcasting live video streams on the go has a consequence. Mobile video is the single biggest data hog on a smartphone, and live streaming isn’t designed to wait around for a Wi-Fi network.
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‘The Intern’ Review: Operating in a Void
Robert De Niro plays a 70-year-old widower who, as a senior intern at a web startup, shares his wisdom and experience with his young colleagues.
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Silicon Valley Woos Modi
535The heads of America’s largest tech companies will meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this weekend to discuss how they might contribute to—and benefit from—the Internet revolution in India.
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Ad Blocking’s Emerging Cottage Industry
1789Consumer interest in ad-blocking, fueled in part by Apple’s new mobile software release, has given rise to a cottage industry hoping to profit from it.
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Why So Many Indians Succeed in America
2643Talent and hard work tell only part of the story. It’s also about opportunity.
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IBM Moves to Expand Watson Unit
148IBM announced a second location for its artificial intelligence unit Watson, signaling an expansion of the business widely known for its artificial intelligence that beat human contestants on the “Jeopardy” quiz show.
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The Daily Startup: Google Ventures Backs Metabiota to Forecast Disease Outbreaks
135A roundup of venture-capital news and analysis from VentureWire and around the Web.
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Startups Power Tel Aviv’s Real-Estate Boom
927Wealthy Israelis have long bought property in cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, but young tech entrepreneurs are now snapping up property—and driving up home prices.
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Onshape Nabs $80M With Aim to Redesign CAD Market
128In 2012, John McEleney and Jon Hirschtick started Onshape, an online CAD startup focused on bringing hardware design into the cloud. On Thursday, Onshape disclosed it has received $80 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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