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SmartThings in Wired
You will be hearing A LOT about "The Internet of Things" or "The Internet of Everything" or "Industrial Internet" this year and next. But it was this month's Wired magazine who devoted the issue's … [Read More...]
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SOPHIA and Bill Nye “The Science Guy” Launch Operation College Success
SOPHIA.org, the "social education platform that empowers students to learn in their own way, helps teachers to innovate and puts college students on a path to a lower-cost degree" just announced that … [Read More...]
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3M ‘Quantum Dots’ Add 50% More Color to LCDs
Quantum dots, discovered in the early 1980s, are semiconductors whose characteristics produce more luminance and chroma (i.e., brighter and more color). While discoveries like this are always an interesting academic breakthrough, none of us get too excited about technology until it’s close to being leveraged [...]
Deloitte’s “TMT” Predictions for 2013
Thought you might be interested in a report by Deloitte, LLP, the U.S. branch of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), a UK private company. This global organization (57,000 people just here in the States) sends out an annual predictions report covering the Technology, Media & Telecommunications sectors. [...]
What Hospitals Charge – Some $8k, Others $38k
One of the reasons healthcare costs have spun out of control is that most consumers are blind to those costs. There isn’t an easy method of shopping for price and little-to-no incentive for doing so since most consumers only care about their small co-pay. That [...]
Fargo Roadtrip: Midwest Mobile Summit
There are very few reasons for me (a 6′ 5″ guy) to want to drive for four hours. Family is usually the only reason…with Iowa and (gulp) Kansas frequent destinations. With destinations like that, I’m never looking to see more flat terrain like that found [...]
Bruce Sterling’s Talk to Startups
Always on the hunt for thought leaders who are thinking strategically about the future, I watched the video below last night and it sparked so many thoughts I was compelled to share it with you. Bruce Sterling is one of the founders of the cyberpunk [...]
Minnesota Cup Application Process Now Open
The ninth annual Minnesota Cup competition – the largest statewide new venture competition in the country – will close its application window on May 17 at 11:59 p.m. Entrepreneurs, inventors and small businesses have two weeks to enter their breakthrough business ideas on Minnesota Cup’s website for a chance [...]
What Comes First in Fargo – the #MidwestMobileSummit or the Spring Floods?
They’re both coming soon! And they may actually be arriving about the same time. But, no worries, the first-year Midwest Mobile Summit will be held April 28-29 in downtown Fargo ND, which I’m told is a pretty safe area of town from the rising waters [...]
Mobile Fans Have a Big Day at the Farm
A whole bunch of busy tech professionals dropped everything on Thursday and headed to the farm — the Earle Brown Farm, that is (now called Earle Brown Heritage Center – a very cool place). Okay, it wasn’t all that far out of town, only Brooklyn [...]
W3i Rebrands, Launches Native Ad Platform for App Devs, Adds Trip Hawkins as Senior Advisor
W3i, one of Minnesota’s largest and fastest-growing Internet companies, with headquarters in St. Cloud and offices in Minneapolis and San Francisco, just made a major announcement today. The company has changed its name to NativeX and completely rebranded around a new platform to help developers [...]
Me and My Pebble
If you’re a regular listener to our Minnov8 Gang Podcast you’re aware that I was a major…er…one of the first…um…ok, an investor in the Pebble watch Kickstarter campaign. You also know that I get a good deal of questions like, “Have you got that Pebble [...]
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