vTime, one of the first ever VR social networks, appears to still be going strong; the team behind the app just raised $7.6 million in a series A round of funding.The investment was led by Deepbridge Capital and also included UK-based loan and equity provider, MSIF. According to a press release, these funds will be used to “accelerate global growth and product development” as well as assist w...

The future of work is poised to bring better, more fulfilling jobs to health care—if provider organizations adapt fast enough. The future is hereRapidly evolving digital technology is driving increased automation, affecting the proximity of where work is performed, and giving rise to new and open talent models.With so much change in the air, many provider organizations are understandably appre...

Augmenting reality can be tricky. So far we’ve worked with screens, trying to layer objects over the world as we perceive it, and that’s incredibly challenging because A. transparent screens haven’t really become mainstream (or cheap) yet, and B. real-time motion tracking is a computer’s worst nightmare and one of its biggest hurdles. While our vision of AR has been limited to display-scree...

How to Win in Southeast Asia's Booming E-Commerce Market.Infographic : http://www.bain.com/infographics/sea-ecommerce/Infographic-Sea-Ecommerce-FINAL.png[bain]

Data-driven transformations—in which companies apply sophisticated data analytics to all aspects of their operations, from R&D to manufacturing to supply chain to marketing to sales—are a potentially game-changing phenomenon, promising massive gains for successful companies. But concerns about data misuse have led to various efforts to regulate the handling of shared data.In the EU, one m...

A recent patent shows some of the thinking about fully autonomous cars, which might look nothing like cars do now.Whenever we have shown self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles as imagined 50 or 60 years ago, people are always playing board games or cards, because they didn't have iPads or phones to play with then. But as we know, millennials are driving a board game revival. That's why it is...

Initial Coin Offerings: 1Q 2018 in Review. There's a bear narrative in the air about ICOs and crypto currencies. It starts out by suggesting that last year was a bubble around Bitcoin, that many unscrupulous parties tried to jump on the bandwagon and take naive investors' money. This spilled out in the fintech, crypto and public markets. See, for example, Long Island "Blockchain" being de-liste...

The European human resources services company Adecco Group said that is acquiring the New York-based, programming, design, and management training startup General Assembly for $413 million.With the acquisition, Adecco adds to its ability to provide job training and re-skilling services for businesses. It’s proof that General Assembly’s own business has come a long way since its early days as...

Former Apple chief executive Steve Jobs holds an original iPhone, one of the biggest technological breakthroughs of modern times. - Since 1760, productivity has increased almost 30 fold.- That is largely down to technological innovations like electricity, telephones, and the internet.- Barclays chronicled the world's rising productivity in its latest Equity Gilt Study.Humanity is always moving...