This post takes a look at the on-demand chef space. Food Tech startups Kitchit and Kitchensurfing have recently changed their business models from an online chef marketplace to an on-demand meal at your home model with less choice. With a combined funding of over $27 million, can these two startups survive the wrath of the chefs that work for them and a more complex model.

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In every era of technology-powered business, a new set of rules emerges. The pioneers discover them and shape them, and for the next period, the business world plays by those rules. The Kurzweillian victors will be companies that win the race toward finding the highest-level componentry to support a differentiated business model. Being first is the crucial factor for success; with first-mover advantage, you can leverage data engineering, network effects, and marketing. In other words, in the interconnected era, the most innovative companies will support a compelling vision for a product or service by using higher order components built on the power of existing platforms. Developing a wide understanding and vision of what’s possible and then crystallizing that vision into technology will be the key skill for companies in this era.

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Microsoft’s chief evangelist explains what can businesspeople and ‘average’ users learn about the way Windows and the firm’s wider platform is going to impact the way they use technology?

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In a bold move, Hillary Clinton is siding with Bernie Sanders and Republicans to repeal the Cadillac tax. The alliance may be unspoken, and she puts her own spin on it, supporting Obamacare, but just targeting this single tax. “Too many Americans are struggling to meet the cost of rising deductibles and drug prices,” she said. Obamacare’s 40% Cadillac tax is on high-priced health plans provided by employers.

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There are dozens of iPhone 6 battery cases out there and indeed cases that have a built-in QI wireless charging ability too. The latter allow you to use any QI wireless charger such as those already available for Google and Samsung’s latest devices as well as some Starbucks stores too.

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Gravitational waves are the last major prediction to be fulfilled from Einstein’s general theory of relativity. They are waves in the structure of space and time, created by black holes in orbit around each other, supernova explosions, and other extreme phenomena. We know gravitational waves exist, but for a number of reasons they’re hard to detect — though it’s a safe bet we’re within 5 years of finally seeing them.

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