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Original Source: http://tcrn.ch/1RxAvOJ Peter Thiel’s decades old Founders Fund pulled together another $1.3 billion dollars today for Founders Fund VI. Thiel, a billionaire investor in Facebook and SpaceX and co-founder of PayPal, will remain at the helm, with partners Lauren Gross, Ken Howery, Geoff Lewis, Scott Nolan, Luke Nosek and Brian Singerman. Founders Fund is known toRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/1UzYNOn There is a race on to develop analytics software that can turn the vast amounts of data generated these days into something useful for businesses—and it will likely get harder to keep up. Not only is there more data to deal with, new sources of information continue to emerge, further complicating the matter,Read more

Original Source: http://apne.ws/1Mw6NwI In this Friday, March 25, 2016, photo provided by Flirtey, an independent drone delivery company,… Read more RENO, Nev. (AP) — A drone has successfully delivered a package to a residential location in a small Nevada town in what its maker and the governor of the state said Friday was the firstRead more

Original Source: http://on.wsj.com/1nWpIoH Move is part of Chinese tech giant’s effort to develop a commercially viable driverless vehicle by 2018 http://on.wsj.com/1R52LIc Chinese search giant Baidu will soon start testing autonomous vehicles in the U.S., according to the company’s chief scientist, who called on governments to make small infrastructure changes to accommodate robot cars. Photo: Baidu ByRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/1WqVQgd Accel Partners blog on Medium.com A fascination with a technology-driven future There are a lot of big and compelling ideas that fascinate us. For example: The march towards a quantified, autonomous future continues thanks to the confluence of predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision technologies. These areas will continue toRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/1WqUQsz BLAISE ZEREGA MARCH 15, 2016 4:12 PM TAGS: ACCEL PARTNERS, FUNDING DAILY, RYAN SWEENEY Image Credit: Steve Bowbrick/Flickr Even with all the talk these days of investors having short arms and thin wallets, money from limited partners continues to flow into venture capital funds. Accel Partners earlier today announced the closing of a pair of U.S. funds totaling $2Read more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/1WqTduT PAUL SAWERS MARCH 16, 2016 4:00 AM TAGS: FUNDING DAILY, RING, TOP-STORIES Above: Ring: Video Doorbell Pro Image Credit: Ring Smart doorbell startup Ring has raised a further $61.2 million in a series C round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation from existing investor Sir Richard Branson. VentureBeat first discoveredRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/1RVDeUq The competition to capture big industrial customers is heating up By Ben Popper on March 7, 2016 12:47 pm The drone business is booming, and companies which manufacture these aerial robots are increasingly trying to produce units that can straddle the divide between the consumer and enterprise market. 3D Robotics, one of the biggest USRead more

Original Source: http://for.tn/1U6XTb9 by Dan Primack , Kirsten Korosec    @danprimack MARCH 11, 2016, 9:36 AM EST Automaker spends big to help cars drive themselves. General Motors GM 1.27% this morning announced that it will acquire Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based developer of autonomous vehicle technology. No financial terms were disclosed, but Fortune has learned from a sourceRead more

Original Source: http://bit.ly/227bl0l JORDAN NOVET MARCH 10, 2016 11:06 AM TAGS: MICROSOFT, MICROSOFT RESEARCH, QUANTUM COMPUTING, STRUCTURE DATA, TOP-STORIES Above: Peter Lee, left, corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, speaks with Bloomberg’s Jack Clark at the Structure Data conference in San Francisco on March 10. Image Credit: Sam Charrington Microsoft spends a lot of time andRead more