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Google-founded Calico teams up with AbbVie to research treatments for age-related diseases

Sep03
by on September 3, 2014 at 6:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

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Calico, the Google-founded research and development company with a healthcare focus on diseases of the aging, has announced a new collaboration with AbbVie, the biopharmaceutical research offshoot of Abbott Laboratories. This R&D collaboration is designed to assist the companies with creating, developing and eventually marketing new therapies for age-related diseases, such as neurodegeneration and cancer. Calico plans to build a new R&D facility in the San Francisco Bay Area to focus specifically on aging and the diseases associated with it, and both companies say they may invest up to $1.5 billion to accelerate the development of new drugs and therapies. Calico will…

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Box unveils Box Workflow for business users coming in 2015

Sep03
by on September 3, 2014 at 6:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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At Boxworks 2014, Box CEO Aaron Levie announced that the company is building a suite of features to better serve its business customers. The new Box Workflow adds a workflow process on top of the Box platform using rules-based tasks and machine learning. Using open APIs, the Box Workflow employs automation and metadata features to create workflows. For the rules-based features, the metadata can be mined to create IFTTT-type triggers. For example: if your business needs to separate credit card charges from cash charges, it can create a rule that automatically finds those different types of charges and send the cash charges to…

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Box unveils Box Workflow for business users coming in 2015

Sep03
by on September 3, 2014 at 6:07 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

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At Boxworks 2014, Box CEO Aaron Levie announced that the company is building a suite of features to better serve its business customers. The new Box Workflow adds a workflow process on top of the Box platform using rules-based tasks and machine learning. Using open APIs, the Box Workflow employs automation and metadata features to create workflows. For the rules-based features, the metadata can be mined to create IFTTT-type triggers. For example: if your business needs to separate credit card charges from cash charges, it can create a rule that automatically finds those different types of charges and send the cash charges to…

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Amazon Fire TV available for pre-order in the UK and Germany for £79

Sep03
by on September 3, 2014 at 5:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates, UK

Amazon has confirmed that customers in the UK and Germany will soon be able to get their hands on its Fire TV streaming device. First launched in the US in April, it’s the first time the device has been made available outside the US. It arrives first in Germany on September 25 and in the UK on October 23. In Germany it costs €99 and in the UK it’s available to pre-order for £79 from today. For Prime subscribers, that price is cut to £49/€49, but only for the next five days. While the device is designed for TV and film…

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Amazon Fire TV available for pre-order in the UK and Germany for £79

Sep03
by on September 3, 2014 at 5:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates, UK

Amazon has confirmed that customers in the UK and Germany will soon be able to get their hands on its Fire TV streaming device. First launched in the US in April, it’s the first time the device has been made available outside the US. It arrives first in Germany on September 25 and in the UK on October 23. In Germany it costs €99 and in the UK it’s available to pre-order for £79 from today. For Prime subscribers, that price is cut to £49/€49, but only for the next five days. While the device is designed for TV and film…

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