Technology & Analytics
Autonomous Vehicles: InsurTech Investors Push for a Front Row Seat
Before manufacturers let autonomous vehicles loose on public roadways, they'll have to show that their driverless cars are a lot better than humans at getting from Point A to Point B without ...
Root Reportedly Nears Finish of $350 Million Financing Round: WSJ Report
Root Insurance is reportedly nearly finished raising $350 million in new financing, The Wall Street Journal is reporting. Roots' latest funding round is expected to be completed sometime this month, ...
Why Open Source, Blockchain-Powered Infrastructure Matters
I started my career as the first network administrator at the University of California, Davis. Part of my job was to help build the Bay Area Regional Research network, one of 10 National Science ...
Facebook Users Reportedly Not Told Contractors Transcribe Audio Clips
Facebook Inc. this week confirmed that it ran a program to allow contractors to listen to and transcribe some users' audio clips. The social network said that the only people who were affected were ...
California’s New Data Privacy Law Could Be a Game-Changer
As the nation's most far-reaching data privacy law, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), is set to begin Jan. 1, 2020, businesses and their insurers are preparing for a new era in cyber liability. ...
For Insurers, New Calif. Data Protection Regulation Offers ‘Tremendous’ Opportunity
More than a year after The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all citizens of the European Union, was implemented in May 2018, some ...
Carriers and InsurTechs Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate
If you had visited the Berlin Industrial Exposition of 1879, you would have been transfixed by a new kind of train that seemed to move by invisible means. It was powered not by steam but by ...
Data Science Startup DataCubes Is Ramping Up Carrier Partnerships
InsurTech DataCubes raised its first funding round of $2.5 million just under two years ago and continues on a growth trajectory today. (Hint: more fundraising is planned in the near future.) The ...