Damon Motorcycles develops great safety innovations for motorcycles

Damon Motorcycles was founded in 2017. The company won "Best in Innovation" Award at CES 2020. The company headquarters are in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The official website of Damon Motorcycles is damonmotorcycles.com

Damon is successfully reinventing personal mobility for 1.5 billion daily commuters. This company actually reverse engineered the problems that two wheel commuters face. The company built an experience that’s perpetually safer, smarter and more rider-friendly.

Reverse engineering is also called back engineering. This is the process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, or to extract knowledge from the object. This is similar to scientific research. The difference is that scientific research is about a natural phenomenon.

The company vision includes a self-learning mobility platform that will hopefully create a world with no fatal accidents on Damon vehicles by 2030.

Damon Motorcycles is working hard to achieve that vision. Damon put data-driven thinking at the epicentre of the company. Damon employs radical innovations in sensor fusion, robotics, and AI.

Sensor fusion is the important ability to bring together inputs from multiple radars, lidars and cameras to form a single model or image of the environment around a vehicle. The successful resulting model is more accurate because it balances the strengths of the different sensors.

The following is interesting news from April 8, 2020:

Vancouver-based Damon Motorcycles, a developer of safety innovations for motorcycles using sensor fusion, robotics, and artificial intelligence, has secured $3 million in additional financing.

Damon also acquired the IP portfolio of Mission Motors, developer of high-density EV powertrains.

Read more about these news here:

https://betakit.com/damon-motorcycles-raises-additional-3-million-acquires-mission-motors-portfolio/

Coconut Software and new remote meeting capabilities

Coconut Software company was founded in 2011. The headquarters are in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. In an important event, the company closed $6.5 million financing round in November 2019.

The official website of Coconut Software is coconutsoftware.com

Coconut provides an enterprise-grade appointment scheduling solution that redefines how customers interact with organizations. At the same time, it is maintaining unparalleled levels of security and compliance. Coconut is used by many of the world’s largest firms, such as Jackson Hewitt, London Drugs, Rogers and TELUS.

The following is an interesting news story from November 27, 2019:

Saskatoon-based startup Coconut Software has raised an additional $6.5 million CAD in what it is calling a Series A2 round.

Read more details about it here:

https://betakit.com/coconut-software-rasies-additional-6-5-million-cad-in-series-a-funding/

The following is an informative news story from Mar 26, 2020:

Coconut Software Sees Rapid Adoption as Financial Sector Struggles To Support Work From Home Model

Coconut Software, a leading enterprise level customer engagement technology provider, announced the priority release of their new remote meeting capabilities in response to the ongoing Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic health crisis.

Read more details about it here:

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/coconut-software-sees-rapid-adoption-as-financial-sector-struggles-to-support-work-from-home-model-825731061.html

Klue and the Global Competitive Intelligence Tools Market 2020

Klue company was founded in 2015. The headquarters are in Vancouver, BC. The company was named a 2019 Gartner "Cool Vendor." Gartner is a global research and advisory firm providing information, advice, and tools for leaders in IT, finance, HR, customer service and support, communications, legal and compliance, marketing, sales, and supply chain functions.

Klue is based in the city of Vancouver. Klue enjoys the Canadian Tech Community. As many people know, recent blocks of entry into USA have happened. However, Canada has successful teamwork and interconnectivity as much as it can create.

The official website of Klue is: klue.com

Klue says that it is competitive intelligence that wins business. What Klue does is kind of a difficult description, but here it is. Klue is the competitive enablement platform built to collect, curate, and deliver competitive and market intelligence across every department of every business. Klue can do the following things: 

- Track Competitors: Klue tracks relevant news and data and combines it with internal sources. You could get deeper competitive intelligence.

- Centralize Competitive Content: Don't worry about managing document versions, again. Update sales battlecards effortlessly, collaborate seamlessly, and deliver consumable competitive strategies in the tools your Sales reps use every day.

- Improve Sales Performance: Arm reps with sales strategies to be more effective in closing deals. Easily searchable sales battlecards give tactics to handle objections, deposition competitors, and leverage strengths.

Klue says that it "collects competitive intelligence." It could help lighten the load of tracking competitors and markets. Klue gathers and filters from millions of sources to keep you on top of competitor website changes, product/feature updates, customer reviews, and more. Internal intel from Slack, email, and Salesforce combine with external data to give you deeper competitive coverage of your market.

Klue says that it gets you insights to drive your competitive strategy. Gather market intelligence to inform your go-to-market strategy using Klue. Tracking competitors in your industry with website page monitoring, keyword insights, content tracking, and news monitoring arm you to build stronger positioning strategies.

Klue says that it provides a lens into a competitor’s world. It continuously updates and connecting dots to help users win more business. It’s a new way to capture, manage, and communicate market insights from the web and across the company, in platforms many already use.

The following is an interesting news story (May 29, 2020) about Klue and Global Competitive Intelligence Tools:

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Impact On Global Competitive Intelligence Tools Market 2020 Analysis By Top Key Players - Crayon, Brandwatch, SimilarWeb, Klue

Read the interesting news story here:

https://3wnews.org/news/1066817/coronavirus-covid-19-impact-on-global-competitive-intelligence-tools-market-2020-analysis-by-top-key-players-crayon-brandwatch-similarweb-klue/

Sept 27, 2017 - Vancouver-Based Klue Raises $4m USD in Seed Funding:

https://medium.com/@rhinovc/vancouver-based-klue-raises-4m-usd-in-seed-funding-1d8b37bec776

Klue's latest funding round in September 2017 was reported to be $4 m. In total, Klue has raised $4 m.

Watch these funny animals and try not to laugh

These are some of the funniest animals. Watch a dog having a nice time. There was a dog was doing the cat walk. Looks like the zebra wants some more food. These animals are pretty cute and adorable. Dogs can do excellent gymnastics. Some of these dogs have some pretty advanced positions. A dog skateboarding is incredible. The dogs show great talent here.

Many animals have fun. There are otters romping in the river, cats chasing lasers, or canines "play fighting." Sometimes, it's hard to tell if an animal is enjoying or not enjoying the activity. Animals have activities like defending territory or finding food. Consider whether the animal is under stress.

Toronto Zoo: Giant Panda Cub Fall Compilation

There sure are a lot of falling pandas at the Toronto Zoo. Probably they don't get too hurt by the falls. The joke is that this will make you fall for pandas all over again. It would be interesting to see a study about how often pandas fall.

Pandas are great at climbing trees. Pandas also fall out of trees often. A Zoo would agree that pandas are adept climbers. They climb and subsequently fall as a form of play. Pandas often climb again and again to fall again and again. It is like they only climb to fall back down again. It is like they are repeating it for eternity.

In Greek mythology Sisyphus or Sisyphos was the king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He was punished for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll down every time it neared the top. He repeated this action for eternity. Tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore described as Sisyphean.

The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca; Chinese: 大熊猫 ) is also known as the panda bear or simply the panda. It is really a bear native to south central China. It has large, black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. The name "giant panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the red panda, a neighboring musteloid.

Though technically it belongs to the order Carnivora, the giant panda is a folivore. Bamboo shoots and leaves make up more than 99% of its diet.

Giant pandas in the wild have been known to eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents, or carrion. In captivity, they may receive honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges or bananas. They may receive specially prepared food.

For many decades, it seems that the precise taxonomic classification of the giant panda was under debate because it shares characteristics with both bears and raccoons.

It appears that molecular studies indicate the giant panda is a true bear, part of the family Ursidae. These studies show it diverged about 19 million years ago from the common ancestor of the Ursidae. It is actually the most basal member of this family and equidistant from all other extant bear species. The giant panda has been often referred to as a living fossil.

11 raccoons removed from Toronto home under construction

This is pretty interesting wildlife. A Toronto wildlife control company says they were called to a home under construction to remove 11 raccoons that had found their way into the house overnight. A Gates Wildlife Control worker has his camera rolling during their removal. Some have said that Toronto has the most raccoons, out of all cities in the world.

Raccoons can be found in many places in Toronto, especially in the spring and summer months. Some have called Toronto: the raccoon capital of Canada or the whole world. Some call them Canada's "trash pandas." They certainly survive and thrive in Toronto.

The raccoon (Procyon lotor) is a medium-sized mammal native to North America. The raccoon is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of 40 to 70 cm. It has a body weight of 5 to 26 kg. Its grayish coat mostly consists of dense underfur which successfully insulates it against cold weather. The raccoon's most distinctive features are its extremely dexterous front paws, its facial mask and its ringed tail.

Raccoons are noted for their intelligence, with studies showing that they are amazingly able to remember the solution to tasks for at least 3 years. They are usually nocturnal and omnivorous. They eat approximately 40% invertebrates, 33% plants, and 27% vertebrates.

Toronto Zoo: Giant Panda vs Snowman

Toronto Zoo Keepers made giant panda Da Mao a snowman for entertainment. Watch as he plays with, or rather disassembles, their creation. The snow man is taken apart, bit by bit. The Panda sure seems to be having lots of fun. This is pretty amazing.

The giant panda is also known as the panda bear. It can be simply called the panda. It is a bear native to south central China. It has large, black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. The name "giant panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the red panda, a neighboring musteloid. A musteloid, in zoology, is any of many mammals of the superfamily Musteloidea, including the weasels, raccoons, red pandas, and skunks.

The giant panda is considered a pretty powerful symbol in the world when it comes to species conservation. In China, the giant panda is considered a national treasure. For WWF, the panda has been the organization’s symbol since 1961.

This peaceful, bamboo-eating member of the bear family was once certainly widespread throughout Southern and Eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar (Burma) and Northern Vietnam.