Nathan Eagle was a Fulbright scholar from MIT, teaching at the University of Nairobi, when he had his "aha moment." Specifically, Eagle was teaching a mobile phone programming curriculum at the school when he and his students built an SMS system that enabled rural nurses to text information about low blood supply levels to centralized blood banks. (Earlier, the nurses depended… Read MoreSource: TechCrunch
While the Nest founders came into Kleiner Perkins with nothing more than a makeshift prototype, it was their passion and vision for a connected home that swayed Randy Komisar and the firm to make an early investment. Five years after launching the smart thermostat and other connected devices for the home, Google acquired Nest for $3.2 billion in 2014. On a recent KPCB ventured podcast, I spoke…
Google is building its first engineering team devoted to Southeast Asia, and the search giant has gobbled up Pie, a Slack-like team communications app based in Singapore, to kick start things off.
The conventional onboarding method for opening new accounts inside app is often broken in emerging because it requires an email address. Truecaller wants to fix that with its new SDK for developers.
A year ago, SoftBank teamed up with IBM to bring its supercomputer Watson to Japan. Now Watson has learned enough Japanese for developers to take advantage of its new skills.
Reaping what they've sown
Apple Pay has today launched in China, a move that takes Apple's digital payments service into its fifth country worldwide.