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NASA | July 01, 2020

NASA has selected 409 technology proposals for the first phase of funding from the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program. The contracts will provide approximately $51 million to 312 small businesses in 44 states and Washington, D.C. "NASA depends on America's small businesses for innovative technology development that helps us achieve our wide variety of missions," said Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NA...

PYMNTS | June 17, 2020

A U.S. House panel is investigating if multiple banks gave preferential treatment to large, well-funded firms compared to companies in minority or isolated areas when making loans meant for providing COVID-19 relief, Bloomberg reported. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Jovita Carranza, several U.S. representatives said that some big lenders reportedly made a system with two levels to handle Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) ap...

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Scylla | September 08, 2021

Scylla, the leading real-time physical threat detection solution, has launched Scylla Asteria, a smart edge device that makes home and small business security more accessible for everyone. Scylla Asteria features a compact, low power consumption edge device that will help customers filter out up to 99% of non-actionable events and enable powerful motion detection for video management systems and cameras that lack this functionality. This will help users see only validated and acti...

Breaking News from Perth & Western Australia | February 10, 2020

Two Australian robotics engineers and a medical doctor have won backing from the CSIRO's innovation fund for a plan to use predictive analytics and machine learning to speed up treatments for prostate cancer and hepatitis C. After boot strapping for seven years, Australian healthcare data startup Prospection on Tuesday announced it had raised $10 million from the CSIRO's innovation fund, Main Sequence Ventures, and Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures. Co-founders Eric Chung and Ricky Chen ...