Important Innovations Collection

Spotify Founder/CEO To Invest in European Tech Startups                                                       Source:  Spotify Seed Money For European Entrepreneurs The founder and CEO of Europe's most valuable technology company - Spotify's Daniel Ek - is building a European Silicon Valley. Speaking at a technology conference, he said he will invest one-third of his personal wealth - 1 billion euros or $1.2 billion - into European technology startups.  The highly successful entrepreneur says he will focus on "moonshot projects" in biotech, materials science and machine learning. Spotify 37 year old Ek's Spotify is a media services provider and audio streaming platform that recently offered a series of podcasts by former First Lady Michelle Obama. Spotify just announced an upcoming podcast series with Prince Harry and M...

IGNITE Program to Jumpstart AI, Autonomous Systems & Data Centric Technologies Source:  INTEL Chip Innovations Come Mostly From Start-Ups Intel's vision of the future of innovation drives their new program IGNITE.  They are starting the program to support, guide and mentor promising tech, early stage startups in Israel.  But Intel intends to expand this innovation incubator project to other countries.  It's an important notion from CEO Brian Swan that today's breakthrough innovations aren't coming from big global companies but from the insights, drive and passion of inventors with unique ideas that are creating early stage start-up companies. It's innovation at the very cusp. The focus dovetails Intel's interests:  AI, autonomous driving systems and data centric technologies. Intel in Israel Intel, which is US based, is one of the biggest employers and exporters in Israel, where many of its new technologies are being developed.  It is also a...