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ACE Takes 24% Stake in CoverHound’s Online Commercial Insurance Plans

Oct 5 2015 // CoverHound has raised $33.3 million in a financing round led by ACE Group, which the company plans to use to build an online commercial insurance platform starting with businessowners policy insurance offerings that could...

ACE Takes 24% Stake in CoverHound’s Online Commercial Insurance Plans

Sep 22 2015 // CoverHound has raised $33.3 million in a financing round led by ACE Group, which the company plans to use to build an online commercial insurance platform starting with businessowners policy insurance offerings that could...

Technology May Outpace Humans on Road to Automated Driving

Sep 14 2015 // From his laboratory at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, automated vehicle pioneer Raj Rajkumar says self-driving cars will evolve step-by-step, with humans staying in charge for a long time to come. More than...

NAPSLO Panel: Tech Disruption May be Good for E&S Market

Sep 10 2015 // “There are no rules. If you can figure out how to quantify a risk and define it, then you can insure it.” Hank Haldeman, president of the board of directors for the National Association of Professional Surplus...

Marketers Have Lost Control of Insurance Buying Process

Sep 7 2015 // After careers spent crafting and controlling their companies’ messaging to customers, insurance marketing and advertising professionals have lost control. Customers and prospects have taken over. Increasingly,...

Marketers Have Lost Control of Insurance Buying Process

Aug 18 2015 // After careers spent crafting and controlling their companies’ messaging to customers, insurance marketing and advertising professionals have lost control. Customers and prospects have taken over. Increasingly,...

101 Sales, Marketing & Management Ideas

Aug 17 2015 // Fellow agents, Insurance Journal readers, experts, educators, marketing professionals, along with Theodore Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Zig Ziglar, CNBC’s Kelly Evans, Harvard Business Review and Fortune magazine have been...

How Google Is Becoming 21st Century Berkshire Hathaway

Aug 10 2015 // Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page speaks affectionately of fellow billionaire Warren Buffett’s approach to business. With the decision to restructure the Internet-search giant, Page is putting...

Facebook’s Facial Recognition Software Draws Privacy Complaints, Lawsuit

Jul 30 2015 // When you are identified in a picture on Facebook, biometric software remembers your face so it can be “tagged” in other photographs. Facebook Inc. says this enhances the user experience. But privacy advocates...

Tech Firms Collaborating to Make Drone Air Traffic Safe

Jul 28 2015 // Google Inc., the company that brought order to the Internet, has set its sights on doing the same for the flocks of commercial drones expected to someday clog the skies. The search-engine pioneer is joining some of the...

M City: Where All Cars Are Driverless

Jul 21 2015 // A simulated city opened Monday on the north campus of the University of Michigan to test how self-driving cars will travel in the future without mowing down pedestrians or causing colossal crashes. “We had the...

Automakers Seek to Limit Data Sharing with Tech Partners

Jul 20 2015 // Carmakers are limiting the data they share with technology partners Apple Inc. and Google Inc. through new systems that link smartphones to vehicle infotainment systems, defending access to information about what drivers...

How the Insurance Industry Is Using Google Glass

Jul 20 2015 // Improved customer service may be just one benefit insurers could see by using Google Glass in their operations. Michael Clifton, vice president of Insurance for Cognizant, described some of the benefits in the...

Google Driverless Car Hit from Behind, Again

Jul 17 2015 // A Google Inc. driverless car was involved in the fleet’s first collision to result in injury. One of Google’s vehicles braked during a green light because of congestion, and the car behind hit it at 17 mph and...

California Judge Rejects Lawsuit Claiming Google Privacy Violations

Jul 16 2015 // Google Inc. users were blocked from suing over alleged privacy violations by a judge who said they failed to show any of their information had been disclosed. It was the fourth time U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal...

Auto Makers Seek to Limit Data Sharing with Tech Partners

Jul 10 2015 // Carmakers are limiting the data they share with technology partners Apple Inc and Google Inc through new systems that link smartphones to vehicle infotainment systems, defending access to information about what drivers do...

Google Tests Driverless Cars in Texas City

Jul 8 2015 // Google Inc. has selected Texas as the latest testing site for its self-driving car project, the company announced Tuesday. A modified Lexus SUV has already been seen on Austin roads, with safety drivers on board, according...

Google Offering Railroad Crossings Alerts for Drivers

Jun 29 2015 // Google will add audio and visual alerts to warn drivers about upcoming railroad crossings on Google’s navigation system, the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration announced on Monday. The agency also asked four other...

Two Self-Driving Cars Avoid Collision, Says Passenger

Jun 26 2015 // Two self-driving prototype cars, one operated by Google Inc. and the other by Delphi Automotive Plc, had a close call on a Silicon Valley street earlier this week, a Delphi executive told Reuters on Thursday. It was...

USAA Piloting Auto Insurance Quotes in California Through Google Compare

Jun 23 2015 // California drivers shopping for auto insurance online can now receive USAA rate quotes and coverage information in their Google search results through the Google Compare service that debuted in March 2015. USAA is piloting...