Can David replace Goliath in shipping your packages?
Ron Johnson, the former head of Apple’s retail division, once said “E-commerce today is primarily logistics and convenience” And yes it is! Giants like Amazon or Alibaba have played a major role in...
View ArticleThe Next Wave of Computation – Machine Intelligence
[This article discusses some of the highlights of a new report by OSV, Learning from Machine Learning: the next wave of digital transformation.] Would you trust artificial intelligence to help raise...
View ArticleEvent Recap: Ingressive and African Tech Innovators at OSV
With seven of the top ten fastest growing economies originating from the African continent, it is no surprise that there has been a renewed focus on Africa as an engine for global growth in the next...
View ArticleStart Spreading the News – Technology and Innovation is Thriving in New York
As a visitor to the Orange Silicon Valley website (thanks!) you may have noticed Orange Institute. This is the Group’s think tank on the Digital Economy that was founded in 2009 right here in the Bay...
View ArticleEvent recap: SF Hardware Startup Meetup at Orange Silicon Valley
What’s the coolest new thing in Software? The Hardware. Last night, Orange Silicon Valley hosted 75+ hardware developers, electrical engineers, product managers, and hardware enthusiasts at the San...
View ArticleHealthcare intelligence: Interview with Foy Savas, co-founder of Auxoid
Auxoid is an early stage company out of New York that provides clinic intelligence tools for healthcare providers. By using data analytics, machine learning, and computer vision, Auxoid helps providers...
View ArticleSDN? NFV? Orange Silicon Valley at KAZOOcon 15
The guy sitting next to me drove all the way from Kansas City and hadn’t slept yet. But here he is at 2600hz’s KAZOOcon conference questioning OSV network specialist Christos Kolias on the relative...
View ArticleGigaStudio, CivicMakers, and the City of San Francisco tackle municipal...
#gigabit this is a network geeks dream crowd, NFPs Muni PUCs incumbents all under one @Orange_SV roof! diversity is good for ecosystems Is the Internet an Economic Right? Discuss. We are here in the...
View ArticleVideo: CivicMakers – SF Public Broadband + Gigabit Apps
We’ve posted the video from our recent event exploring municipal broadband. From the Orange GigaStudio YouTube channel: On October 8th, CivicMakers, the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic...
View ArticleIoT prototyping is easier than you think, with LittleBits & Arduino
There’s a lot of promise in the capabilities of the Internet of Things (IoT), so we wanted to build these networked devices to see for ourselves. Specifically, the IoT team at Orange Silicon Valley is...
View ArticleHelping reduce energy poverty with 3D-printed windpower at COP21
At this year’s Paris Climate Change Conference – COP21 – our own Soumik Sinharoy presented our collaboration to develop low-cost 3D-printed wind turbines that address the energy poverty still...
View ArticleDesign for Digital Senses
Design is always in the air here in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. This week the city is hosting the O’Reilly Design conference, a platform for diving deeper below the generalities of user...
View ArticleBig Bird comes to Silicon Valley – Sesame Street launches venture fund
Sesame Street, a children’s entertainment show, launched a venture capital program of $10MM called “Sesame Ventures”, ostensibly to “make kids stronger, smarter and kinder”. Some might, as they...
View ArticleOrange and SF Hardware Meetup host hardware startups
It was a full house last night here at Orange Silicon Valley. We hosted and sponsored the San Francisco Hardware Startup Meetup to showcase new products to a community of entrepreneurs and enthusiasts....
View ArticleTaking stock of Unicorns & Workhorses: Innovation gets serious in 2016
At the dawn of 2016 there’s a growing sense that the fuel of innovation is becoming more conservative. Amid significant macroeconomic factors, capital is getting nervous. Numerous indicators suggest...
View ArticleThe (Responsible) Customer Experience
What does the customer want? Privacy or personalization? My job is to be alert for trends. I look for patterns in the form of repeating vocabulary, business relationships, and announcements. I listen a...
View ArticleOrange deep learning work featured in Wall Street Journal
Fighting fraud with intelligent algorithms The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Report recently featured the work of Orange Silicon Valley in piloting deep learning efforts to fight fraud. Led by senior IT...
View ArticleInnovation with Orange Silicon Valley and Homeland Security
Federal agencies are increasingly looking to Silicon Valley for paths to innovation. Last week, senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) visited Orange Silicon Valley to...
View ArticleAlexa and the conversational interface
Amazon is driving a new conversational interface for the smart home. Amazon’s Alexa is winning the smart home because it does what other consumer-focused internet-of-things (IoT) products don’t: Alexa...
View ArticleVirtual Reality Gets Real with Tony Parisi and Wevr
I’m about 10 meters below the surface, held in the gaze of a large, warm eye about the size of my head. The whale is 40 feet long and just a meter away from me, its eye panning and inspecting my...
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