The last mile. The concept has a finality to it, a sense of completion. But in business, as in any endeavor that spans time, place, relationships and tasks, the last mile can be obscure — clouded, even, by distractions and obstacles. So it is in B2B, where activity crosses borders and currencies, and where regulations […]
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The Amazon Alexa Fund has invested in Plant Prefab, a leading home design and prefabrication company. The Southern California startup announced it has raised a $6.7 million Series A funding round that also included participation from Obvious Ventures. The funds will be used towards new senior hires, building the marketing and sales team, and developing […]
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Maybe Isaac Newton — the hopelessly hopeful alchemist who came up with some solid rules of physics — was a genius of business and even B2B payments, too. After all, one of his main rules concerns the tendency for objects (by which he means everything in the universe) to remain in a state of inertia. […]
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To supply retailers such as Whole Foods and U.S. Foods with greens, 80 Acres Farms is constructing a “fully automated indoor farm.” The project’s reported cost is in the range of $10 million to $15 million, CNBC reported. “With the … facility, we will achieve the next-generation of indoor vertical farming,” 80 Acres Farms’ CEO […]
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Some failures of technology are very serious. On Jan. 13, 2018, an emergency alert text went out all over Hawaii telling residents and tourists that an incoming ballistic missile attack was imminent, tipping off waves of panic and terror as people scrambled for cover. There was no attack, of course, just a crossed wire between […]
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It’s no secret that blockchain technology is being adopted for a variety of use cases. Traditional databases are generally centralized and data may be added, deleted or updated. Blockchains are generally decentralized, and the data is immutable. Once a record has been added to a blockchain, it theoretically exists forever. If a public blockchain becomes […]
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