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NBS is a privately-owned holding company, which seeks opportunities to acquire and grow businesses that can generate long-term sustainable cash flow and attractive returns to maximize value for all stakeholders. We are a team of visionaries, enthusiasts and operators. We have a value investor mentality with a long-term investment outlook.
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– Jacob Bronowski
Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb has rejoined the venture world — but he hasn’t forgotten Juul
Technology Chrunch Scott Gottlieb, the former Food and Drug Administration chief, became known during his tenure for his efforts to regulate the tobacco and e-cigarette industries — and for his...
Microsoft’s new language learning app uses your phone’s camera and computer vision to teach vocabulary
Technology Chrunch Eight Microsoft interns have developed a new language learning tool that uses the smartphone camera to help adults improve their English literacy by learning the words for the...
Fresh off a $530M round, Aurora acquires lidar startup Blackmore
Technology Chrunch Aurora, the self-driving car startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, is in an acquiring mood. The company, founded in early 2017 by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew...
Vignette is a handy new app that keeps your iOS contact photos up to date
Technology Chrunch If there’s a special place in your heart for single-purpose utilities that solve a nagging problem, then you’re going to want to skip your daily Starbucks coffee and instead buy...
My desk doesn’t deserve the $600 Dyson Lightcycle lamp
Technology Chrunch Like many of you, I’m assuming, my desk was purchased at Ikea and is the center of my life. Such as it is, the desk is littered with bits of crackers, memory cards, branded...
Getaround, Facebook, AI chips, Nvidia, Africa, and immigration
Technology Chrunch Who helped your startup grow? Nominate a growth marketing agency. For those who have been members of Extra Crunch for a while now, you have seen us go through two cycles of...
US Post Office to Test-Drive Autonomous Trucks
Tech News World The U.S. Postal Service has announced a pilot project using self-driving trucks. It will conduct the two-week experiment in collaboration with TuSimple, an autonomous driving...
Tencent CEO warns companies must keep innovating to survive amid US-China tensions
Technology Chrunch On Tuesday, Tencent’s usually low-profile founder and CEO Pony Ma made rare comments to weigh in on escalating tensions between the United States and China, calling domestic tech...
In Ford’s future, two-legged robots and self-driving cars could team up on deliveries
Technology Chrunch Autonomous vehicles might someday be able to navigate bustling city streets to deliver groceries, pizzas, and other packages without a human behind the wheel. But that doesn’t...
Leak reveals Uber’s $9.99 unlimited delivery Eats Pass
Technology Chrunch What’s the cord-cutting equivalent to ditching your kitchen? Uber’s upcoming subscription to unlimited free food delivery. Uber is preparing to launch the $9.99 per month Uber...
The Rebirth of the Personal Computer
Tech News World I went to Lenovo Accelerate last week and feasted my eyes on one of the most innovative PCs I've ever seen. However, as I absorbed the rest of Lenovo's announcements, I realized I...
Budgeting Software Options to Keep Linux Users From Seeing Red
Tech News World Budgeting apps come in all sizes and shapes. Budget apps for Linux are part of a software category that has been all but abandoned. But take heart. A number of Web-based solutions...
Macron defends his startup-friendly policies
Technology Chrunch For the third year as president, France’s president Emmanuel Macron talked to the French tech ecosystem at VivaTech in Paris. This time, he used this opportunity to defend his...
China’s Luckin Coffee raises up to $651M in upsized US IPO
Technology Chrunch Another week, another cash-burning tech IPO in the U.S. Following on from Uber’s high-profile listing, ambitious Chinese startup Luckin Coffee has raised up to $650.8 million on...
Amazon leads $575M investment in Deliveroo
Technology Chrunch Amazon is taking a slice of Europe’s food delivery market after the U.S. e-commerce giant led a $575 million investment in Deliveroo . First reported by Sky yesterday, the Series...
Digging for Bitcoin Is a Labor of Love
Tech News World It would have been reasonable for those attending Josh Bressers' session at CypherCon -- myself included -- to expect a presentation by a cryptocurrency expert. It was billed as a...
Reality Check: The marvel of computer vision technology in today’s camera-based AR systems
Technology Chrunch Alex Chuang Contributor Alex Chuang is the Managing Partner of Shape Immersive, a boutique studio that helps enterprise and brands transform their businesses by incorporating...
Google’s Translatotron converts one spoken language to another, no text involved
Technology Chrunch Every day we creep a little closer to Douglas Adams’ famous and prescient babel fish. A new research project from Google takes spoken sentences in one language and outputs spoken...
White House refuses to endorse the ‘Christchurch Call’ to block extremist content online
Technology Chrunch The United States will not join other nations in endorsing the “Christchurch Call” — a global statement that commits governments and private companies to actions that would curb...
New Relic takes a measured approach to platform overhaul
Technology Chrunch New Relic, the SaaS applications performance management platform, announced a major update to that platform today. Instead of ripping off the band-aid all at once, the company has...
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