[Casetext in VentureBeat] Casetext raises $12 million for legal research assistant CARA
Using natural language understanding, Casetext scans the text of legal briefs to locate and analyze case citations. Read more on...
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[mPrest in The Jerusalem Post] Iron Dome startup to provide critical support to New York Power Authority
The startup responsible for the command and control system behind the Iron Dome missile defense system is now supplying critical infrastructure support to New York’s largest public power organization. The Petah Tikvah-based mPrest, a provider of mission- critical monitoring, control and analytics software for utilities, has deployed a predictive health analytics application to enhance the operational reliability and cost effectiveness of the New York Power Authority’s assets network, the partners recently announced. Read more on The Jerusalem Post...
Read More[Social Bicycles in Medium] Bike share: The dawn of the Smartbike (and the death of dock-blocking)
At the conference, I met a shaggy-haired ex-transportation planner named Ryan Rzepecki, who had even bigger goals for improving bike share globally. His company, Social Bicycles, was developing a new type of bike share system with bikes that could be locked to any public bike rack or street sign, had real-time GPS to track the bicycles’ locations, and, most importantly, users were not limited to beginning and ending their trips at docking stations. He’d designed a model to solve the biggest problems with bike share: reliable dock availability, expensive equipment, and inefficient operations. For a moment I almost laughed because I had literally just written the book on bike share and I knew, as everyone else did, that bike share bikes required docking points…unless they didn’t. Read more on Medium...
Read More[Neverware in Yahoo Finance] Neverware debuts CloudReady: Office 365 education edition
Neverware, the New York-based developer of lightweight desktop operating systems built to optimize security and manageability, announced today the release and general availability of CloudReady: Office 365 Education Edition, a new solution developed in partnership with Microsoft that features a native integration between Neverware’s CloudReady operating system and the Office 365 suite. Read more on Yahoo Finance...
Read More[Neverware in Engadget] Neverware’s Chrome OS for old computers now includes Office 365
Neverware has made a name for itself with its CloudReady software, which essentially transforms any old PC or Mac into a Chromebook. But while that’s a nice way to breathe new life into aging computers, it’s naturally reliant on Google’s online services. Now, the company is offering a new version of Cloud Ready for schools that integrates Microsoft’s Office 365 online suite instead. It might seem blasphemous, but it could be useful for schools and other organizations that are already deeply integrated with Microsoft’s software. Read more on Engadget...
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