The average apple in a U.S. supermarket is 11 months old when bought. So much for “fresh.” “By the time it gets to our grocery stores all of the antioxidants are gone,” said Caleb Harper, a food technology research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at a recent conference. “They are basically balls of…
Top 25 Mobile Start Ups To Watch 2016
To identify the most promising global mobile start-ups Informilo asked some of the most active investors around the globe to nominate and evaluate companies outside their own portfolios. Some are well-known, others are below the radar but unlikely to stay that way for long. Here are our 2016 picks for the Top 25. B2B Aircall…
Hyperloop CEO’s Pipe Dreams
You shouldn’t think this, but when talking to the remarkably modest Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and the man charged with making Elon Musk’s dream of a supersonic transport system a reality, you cannot help but hear in your head a song from The Simpsons: “There’s nothing on earth like a genuine, bona…
Corporates Looking To Start-Ups For Help
Corporate investments in mobile payment and IoT start-ups are soaring
Connecting The Next Billion Users
In 2012, the Internet Society conducted a study of more than 10,000 Internet users in 20 countries and found that 83% of respondents believed access to the Internet should be considered a human right. Today, more than four billion of the roughly seven billion people on Earth have the ability to get online, and that…
Can 5G Deliver Its Promises On The Digital Future?
There is a lot riding on 5G, the next generation of mobile networking. Can it possibly deliver on the hype by 2020?
Top 25 Mobile Companies To Watch In 2015
Which are the hottest mobile companies? We polled investors and insiders to draw up the definitive list.
Ebola: How Big Data Failed To Help Curb Its Spread
Cell records could have helped tackle Ebola but the industry couldn’t agree what to hand over
Google Faces Backlash Over Android
Google’s bundling of its apps and services with the Android operating system is leading to antitrust probes in the EU and Russia
Zero2Infinity Uses Balloons, Rockets To Launch Satellites
It costs upwards of $100 million to put a satellite into orbit. A Barcelona start-up wants to slash that, using balloons not rockets