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• The iPhone turns 10: here are 10 industries it reshaped

  by Steven Loeb, June 29, 2017

  The smartphone has altered industries ranging from transportation to education to media

  While mobile has the ability to disrupt e-commerce, it also has the ability to enhance the brick and mortar experience. There have been numerous companies popping up in recent users, which use mobile, specifically geolocation, to send targeted advertisements to smartphones. A survey from 2015 also found that 90 percent of shoppers use their phones in-store for price comparisons, to look up product

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• Personal Invite: Modvation#DiversityVentures on 7/6, join us

  by Sponsored Story, June 29, 2017

  Use code "vatormembers" for 20% off TIX

  ModVation is an intimate twilight tech talk and mixer where top influencers and gamechangers share their valuable lessons and experiences.and this year concluding with a fashion show featuring the latest in tech, innovation and wearables. Our event is an international networking community event, that brings people together to celebrate peace, cultural diversity, highlighting local artists, fashion

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• GPU database provider Kinetica raises $50M Series A

  by Steven Loeb, June 29, 2017

  The company's ultimate goal is to displace competitors like Oracle and SAP

  The world is being saturated with data, especially as the Internet of Things, which use sensors generating torrents of streaming data, continues to grow. Of course, businesses want to be able to take advantage of that stream of information, and are looking for a platform that can ingest data and turn it into something useful for them. The problem is how to actually do that, since there's so much of

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• Senate healthcare bill: the healthtech community speaks out

  by Steven Loeb, June 28, 2017

  A vote on the bill has now been delayed in order to get conservative Republicans on board

  "The ACA wasn’t really healthcare reform, it was insurance reform. The Senate GOP bill introduces forces to push better economics and test a free market approach. No matter what gets passed, health systems are under intense pressure to reduce their cost structure. This will require fundamentally modernizing the underlying technology infrastructure and the process with which they work with insurers,

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• With 2 billion users, Facebook is bigger than China

  by Steven Loeb, June 27, 2017

  Facebook has more users than all the dogs and cats put together and inches around the world

  I remember back in the days when Facebook was only for college students, and it was a big deal when your friends signed up. That was quite a long time ago now, and the company has grown quite a bit since those early days. It's so big that it has now surpassed a whopping two billion monthly active users, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday. That includes a Facebook user who logged in and visited F

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• How does trivago make money?

  The hotel search engine charges hotels for referrals on a cost-per-click basis

  Thanks to search engines like Expedia, Orbitz, Hotels.com, Priceline and Travelocity, we've all gotten used to buying our own flights and hotel rooms at the click of a button. It's hard to believe that ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Accelerators focused on Smart Cities

  Some focus on companies in the smart city space, while some work directly with the cities themselves

  For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular method to get a foot in the door, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• With Kalanick out at Uber, here's what he might do next

  Gates went philanthropic; Ballmer bought a sports team; Phil Libin went the VC route

  Perhaps the most famous post-CEO life belongs to Bill Gates, who left Microsoft in 2000, and stopped working full time at the company in 2006 to instead work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Gartner recognizes noHold as a 2017 Cool Vendor

  The company was recognized for their innovation and impact in conversational platforms

  Every year the American research and advisory firm Gartner releases a report that details different SMBs that are doing innovative and original things in the world of tech. They have been doing this since ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Uber makes an appeal to keep drivers, starts allowing tips

  Uber has seen a slew of bad press recently, including the departure of Travis Kalanick

  The company is currently reeling from multiple scandals, including those involving rampant sexual harassment, as well as the departure of numerous executives, including founder and CEO Travis Kalanick, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Welltok's Michelle Snyder reveals new healthcare paradigm

  Keys to building a consumer centered healthcare platform: Interview with Reena Jadhav

  Reena Jadhav interviewed Michelle Snyder of Welltok at Vator Splash Health on the new paradigm of building a consumer centric healthcare platform. Welltok is a leading consumer health enterprise SaaS company ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• Sports-centric streaming TV service fuboTV raises $55M

  FuboTV offers a package of 65 channels, including NBC, Fox, Bravo, USA and MSNBC

  As more people turn to cord-cutting [aka: cancelling cable TV], we're increasingly seeing new viewing options, including online-only subscriptions from HBO and Showtime, and offerings from cable companies, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Travel app, FinalPrice, raises $4 million in funding

  The subscription-based travel app will use the funding for product development and scaling

  There are quite a few services that cater to travelers of all kind, services that will save you money on flights, hotels, and rental cars, but most of them have to make money on the individual purchase, ...
  By Josiah Motley
  

• Meet Elizabeth Galbut, Founding Partner at SoGal Ventures

  Galbut also founded A-Level Capital, a student-led venture capital firm, while at Johns Hopkins

  Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh how times have changed. While there are more startups than ever, there's also more money chasing ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Looking for an AI focused accelerator? This list is for you!

  These accelerators include Eonify, Rockstart, Techcode and Zeroth

  For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular method to get a foot in the door, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Podcast: Dr. Robert Pearl on his new book Mistreated

  Innovation opportunities in Digital Health & the Truth about why we are not getting care we deserve

  Reena Jadhav interview with Dr. Pearl, who offers every American critical information on how to get better healthcare as a consumer and how to pick the right doctor among other key insights. Packed with ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• Peter Hames, CEO Big Health, on Digital Medicine and Sleepio

  Reena Jadhav interviews Peter on emergence of evidence based non drug therapy at scale

  Reena Jadhav interviews Peter Hames, CEO of Big Health about emergence of "Digital Medicine" and Big Heallth's first product Sleepio, which addresses sleep problems digitally to help manage the deeper ...
  By Reena A Jadhav
  

• When Wikipedia was young: the early years

  Wikipedia, launched in 2001, was an offshoot of online encyclopedia Nupedia

  It's a look back at the modest days of startups, what traction they had in their first few years, and how they evolved. In the end, we hope to provide a glimpse into what great startups looked like in ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Your guide to accelerators focused on the FinTech space

  These accelerators include Plug and Play, Barclays and Wells Fargo

  For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but another popular method to get a foot in the door, ...
  By Steven Loeb
  

• Algolia raises $53 million in Series B funding round

  The Search-as-a-Service company will use the funding to continue to invest in search innovations

  The French startup, Algolia, has just finished their Series B round of funding, closing at $53 million raised. Their first round of funding happened back in May of 2015 with Accel as the leading investor. ...
  By Josiah Motley
  
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