100 different channels and nothing on? Microsoft has just licensed semantic video discovery technology from Israeli startup Jinni to help you find the perfect movie.
At the heart of Jinni is a movie genome comparable to Pandora’s music genome, which …
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We’ve had local food, organic food, slow food and even urban farming. Now get ready for disco farming.
The Dutch “plant control freaks” behind PlantLab want to farm indoors under purple light. It’s not just for the looks, though. PlantLab …
The humble barnacle may seem an unlikely villain in the war on climate change, but those little crustaceans are not as innocent as they look. Ships encrusted with barnacles experience turbulence, which can increase the fuel they use by up …
Ever wanted a dashboard for your life? GravityEight wants to become the “Mint.com of your entire life” by tracking everything from your health to your community contribution and displaying the results in a wellbeing wheel.
The company just signed a …
“Wine is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey” said Thomas Jefferson. Copenhagen-based Vivino helps you identify and locate your favorite antidote for future consumption. The company just received an angel investment from Skype co-founder Janus Friis …
Do European venture capital funds perform better than their U.S. rivals? German VC fund, Earlybird Venture Capital, just published an analysis that claims European venture capital has been producing higher exit multiples than U.S. venture capital in the last two …
CloudBees, which offers a Java platform as a service (PaaS) for developers, has raised $10.5 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
CloudBees was founded by Sacha Labourey, the former chief technology officer of JBoss. Its first …
Tired of overflowing bins and roads blocked by waste vans? Quebec’s new Cité Verte (green city) eco urban development will use a vacuum-powered (pneumatic) underground waste system from Swedish company Envac.
A system of underground pipes will connect directly to …
It’s hard to get the famously phlegmatic Dutch excited but Mike Lee had a room full of them (and other nationalities) clapping and whooping Saturday in the style of an old-school preacher. Why? Appsterdam, Lee’s attempt to create a new …
Usabilla, a Dutch startup producing web site usability tools, raised $1 million Wednesday in a round led by local venture fund Boralis and five undisclosed investors in Europe and the U.S.
Usabilla helps marketers, analysts and designers define usability tests …
This article is part of the series “Conversations on the Global App Economy” which is sponsored by Nokia.
In developing countries, where large numbers of people don’t even have access to electricity, much less the Internet, ecommerce is something of …
US company Nuvve will use Denmark as the first test market for a new technology allowing electric vehicle (EV) owners to sell energy stored in their EV batteries back to the grid.
The first pilot will consist of 30 cars. …
Fits.me aims to increase clothing sales online and reduce returns by showing female shoppers clothing on a mannequin matching her exact dimensions. It does this by using robotic mannequins with artificial muscles that can simulate the shape and size of …
Avantium just raised $43 million (30 million EUR) from a group of investors including Sofinnova Partners, Aster Capital and De Hoge Dennen.
Avantium’s YXY technology enables the cost effective production of a 100 percent plant-based, recyclable plastic called PEF. PEF …
Fundamo, one of the biggest vendors of mobile financial services technology for the unbanked and underbanked has just been acquired by Visa for a reported $110 million dollars. Fundamo operates in over 40 emerging markets, in particular Africa and the …
Why is a mobile phone number tied to a SIM card (and often a device) rather than a person? My sister lives in Brooklyn but has never owned a mobile phone (she still has an answering machine like in Sex …
You may think that a tech blogger’s life is a glamorous whirl of free lunches, great gadgets and being bought drinks at conferences. If so then you are probably following the wrong bloggers. In fact, it’s more like a long …
Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. hit $7.3 billion for the first quarter of 2011, a 23 percent increase over the same period in 2010, according to figures released today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. This is the …
The Guardian is reporting that prisoners in labor camps in China were forced to play online games like World of Warcraft in 12 hour shifts in order to earn virtual credits, currencies and goods which could then be sold by …
As any security expert will tell you, all security systems can be cracked. The issue is more whether the value of the information revealed justifies the effort required to do so.
Russian security company Elcomsoft just demonstrated that it can …
