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Infosys writes off investment in Waterline as third startup bet turns sour

March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 Loknath DasAs, bet, In, Infosys, investment, Off, Startup, Third, Turns, Waterline, writes

India-based multinational information technology services provider Infosys Ltd. has written off its investment in a United States startup that offers data discovery and governance software. The California-based startup called Waterline Data Inc., founded in 2013, will be acquired by a subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi by the end of this month. This is the third startup bet that has turned sour for Infosys. The IT major had invested in Waterline through its $500 million Innovation Fund, launched in 2015. It first invested $4 million in January 2016. In March 2018, it bet a further…

3D-Printed Clip-On Turns Smartphones Into Microscopes

February 22, 2018 Loknath Das3D-Printed, Clip-On, Into, Microscopes, Smartphones, Turns

Australian researchers have developed a 3D-printed “clip-on” that can turn a smartphone into a fully-functional microscope to visualise specimens as tiny as 1/200th of a millimetre. The “clip-on” microscope, developed by researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics at the University of Adelaide requires no external power or light source to function. Described in the journal Scientific Reports, the device is powerful enough to visualise specimens, including microscopic organisms, animal and plant cells, blood cells and cell nuclei. Photo Credit: CNBP The “clip-on” has “internal illumination tunnels” that use light…