Xconomy

DECEMBER 17, 2018

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from technology leaders about 2018 trends and 2019 forecasts. But getting there will require designing software that can “think” and communicate more like humans—big challenges that A.I. “I think we’ve gotten to a point where.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2019

Venture capital investments rose in 2018 to levels not seen since the heady days of 2000, the last year U.S. startups collectively took in more than $100 billion. billion into companies.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

When it comes to developing and promoting innovation, external factors beyond the control of company founders, investors, and other business leaders can also determine whether a startup succeeds or fails. Xconomy: Has the Trump era been good or bad for your company? Manoj Saxena , CognitiveScale chairman. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

View the Slideshow On November 4-6, Xconomy organized a meeting of the minds—an elite gathering of leaders in technology, business, healthcare, education, and energy—to discuss and demonstrate the key trends in their fields, heading into next year.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 26, 2018

software startups to reflect on the trends that defined the sector in 2018—and where things might be headed in 2019. Meanwhile, A.I. developers continued to grapple with issues around transparency, trust, and ethics. As part of Xconomy’s series of year-end posts , we asked a pair of CEOs of Boston-area A.I.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2020

Our interview today is with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez of Ulevate (www.ulevate.com), a startup which is combining technology with the beauty and spa industry. Constantine is CEO of Ulevate, and Dmitri is an advisor, and also is known as the co-founder of email management and filtering software developer SaneBox.

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Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

View the Slideshow With the first quarter in the books, it’s time to step back and lay out Xconomy’s editorial map for the rest of the year.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

In mid-2018, Tom Bogan was the leader of business planning software company Adaptive Insights as it planned its own next steps. But like Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate,” the big enterprise software company Workday lured Adaptive Insights away from the IPO altar with a more attractive deal—a $1.55

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Xconomy

JANUARY 9, 2018

That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Call them tech hubs or startup capitals, they are drawing in our nation’s venture capital dollars. In July 2018, my venture capital firm, Alumni Ventures Group (AVG), encountered an investment opportunity in RealSelf, a marketplace that features reviews of providers of medical aesthetics and cosmetic treatments. Silicon Valley.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 8, 2019

When we have a chance to view it from a distance, the year 2018 may be seen as a period when innovations in a number of technological fields came together to transform not only the future of computing, but also the very structure of the Internet. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Below are the highlights from our e-mail exchange with entrepreneur and investor Andy Palmer, the co-founder and CEO of Cambridge, MA-based Tamr , a “data unification” software company. Xconomy: If you think public perception about the tech industry turned for the worse in 2017, what should the industry do to rebuild trust in 2018?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The experience was part of InCube 2018 , a global startup pitch competition organized by the ETH Entrepreneurship Club. We met for the first time the week before, and we were competing against four other cubes in Switzerland to solve a challenge.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2017

From Portland to Pittsburgh, it’s likely that every city in the U.S. with more than 1 million people has made its case to Amazon to locate the company’s second headquarters there. At least, hopefully they have already, because today—if you haven’t heard—was the deadline to apply.

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Xconomy

MAY 18, 2018

We can all agree that 2017 was a brutal year for cybersecurity. Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation Report identified passwords as the root cause of more than 81 percent of breaches in 2016 – an 18 percent increase from the previous year. And, it’s a safe guess that this year, the percentage will grow.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

All this is done while they guide startups through other external challenges such as fundraising droughts and overall market downturns. Venture capital firms invest in potentially disruptive technologies with the hope of profit, then keep watch for further advances that could overtake their existing portfolio companies.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2018

In March 2006, Amazon launched Simple Storage Service (S3). Although few people paid much attention at the time, the announcement of S3 marked the beginning of a great migration of data from on-premises storage to the cloud.

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Xconomy

JULY 9, 2018

companies through the first six months of 2018, according to the latest Venture Monitor report produced quarterly by Seattle-based PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). At this pace, 2018 venture investment is well on its way to surpassing last year’s $81.9 This year could be even bigger. billion into U.S.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

But when the financial oversight council published its 2018 annual report, it concluded that volatility in the cryptocurrency. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

In 2018, however, it is possible for someone to use a spoofed version of King’s home number. The phone number that called her, she later discovered, was startling. “It It was my home phone calling me, which was not possible,” says King, who recently finished a doctorate in information science and now works at Stanford University.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

By nearly every measure, 2018 was a banner year for the venture capital industry, particularly in the healthcare technology sector. While certain sectors may now be demonstrating bubble-like tendencies, the data also reflect the activity of SoftBank’s ~$100 billion Vision Fund and other late start cross-over investors.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 15, 2019

As Xconomy’s editors looked back at the year just passed, we asked technology leaders to comment on the trends they’d observed in 2018, and the developments they expected in 2019. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon will pick the city in 2018. Amazon sent cities across North America into a frenzy Thursday after announcing plans to build a second headquarters outside of Seattle, bringing with it tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic development benefits. Mexico is also part.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2018

As an Xconomist, I have been asked to predict what technology might really take off in 2018. My response is something of a “cheat” in that it relates to artificial intelligence (AI), a technology that has been poised to take off next year for the past several decades and a topic about which I have not written in decades.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

billion at the time of its last fundraising in mid-2018. Lyft sold 30.8 million shares at $72 apiece, according to Renaissance Capital —the top of a new range that Lyft originally set at $62 to $68. The company was valued at $15.1 Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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