Urbanspoon was one of the original restaurant review sites and it was a good resource for figuring out was good in an unfamiliar neighborhood.
Over time it fell behind and became irrelevant as other sites took over and it was neglected by its owners.
Now it’s been taken over and will be shut down by Indian startup Zomato.
The hospitality industry is tough and complex, something that’s not getting easier as keen young startups from unexpected places are entering the market.
The woes of BlackBerry continue with the company announcing it will be laying off an undisclosed number of staff in its device business.
It appears the resurgence isn’t happening.
Uber and other car services are claiming US disability laws don’t apply to them The Daily Beast reports.
It’s hard to think of how Uber can do more to alienate the community with the service pushing legal boundaries in many cities, avoiding taxes and trying to skirt employment laws.
The danger for all the new wave of companies in their trying to dodge laws is they are inviting restrictive legislation, particularly if they’ve alienated the community and electorate.
It may well be time for companies like Uber, SideCar and Lyft to start showing a bit of humility and tact. Hubris and arrogance may come back to haunt them.
The sudden and unexpected passing of Survey Monkey CEO David Goldberg at age 47 yesterday is a genuine shock.
Last year we interviewed David for Decoding The New Economy and found him to be a gracious and intelligent interviewee – a genuinely nice guy who wasn’t fazed by me constantly confusing Survey Monkey with Mailchimp.
With the passing of David the tech industry has lost one of the smart, good guys. Condolences to the his loved ones.
Security experts have hacked a teleoperated surgical robot Security experts hack medical robot.
In a recently published paper, a group of academics showed how they had been able to change the instruction sequences, override commands or even take full control of the Raven II medical robot.
That such a lack of security isn’t in the least bit surprising is a sad commentary on the world of connected devices and the Internet of Things.
At the root of this problem is the software running this equipment has security added, at best, as an afterthought given the designers work from the assumption operators are in the room with the equipment,
If we’re going to connect these devices to the public internet then security has to be built into them from the beginning.
Whether we’re discussing remote medical equipment, driverless cars or the smart home, hardening and securing IoT devices is going to be of today’s industrial challenges.