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"Vicarious buys standard industrial robots, enhances them with its software, and contracts them out the way a temp agency does workers-charging per task completed or at an hourly rate. In Baltimore, Vicarious robots assemble sampler packs for makeup company Sephora, work previously done exclusively by humans. Vicarious CEO and cofounder D. Scott Phoenix says the deal demonstrates his business model: Create artificial intelligence software that makes industrial robots smart enough to perform jobs previously done only by people. Vicarious hasn't previously discussed its customers or robots publicly but has earned itself an air of mystery among AI and robot experts since its founding in 2010. The startup has raised more than $130 million, according to data service PitchBook. Its investors include some of Silicon Valley's most famous names and deepest pockets-venture firm Founders Fund, cofounded by early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, and billionaire entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos. "

Could have implications for advertisers

another good article on color app

Sony is bringing ad-supported movies from Crackle (its online video venture) to its set top TV/Blu-Ray Players and Roku, the only non-Sony product it will be available on.

When nine of Slovakia's leading news organizations went behind a collective paywall in May, the world's eyes turned on this small eastern European country and waited impatiently for the public's response. Now we know. Unique visitors to most of the publications' sites have actually increased since the paywall went up, and Piano Media, the company behind the venture, claims to have met its subscription target within two days of launching the system.

Wow, there is a LOT of venture capital flowing right now. This bubble is surely going to burst at some point.

Mo money, mo money: https://www.google.com/search?q=million+funding+2014#q=million+funding+2014&tbm=nws