If your Amazon order gets delivered by a drone sometime in the near future, you'll know Canada helped make that happen. Here's why Amazon is testing its drones here rather than in the U.S.
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Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Amazon tests Delivery Drones at a Secret Site in Canada — Here's Why
If your Amazon order gets delivered by a drone sometime in the near future, you'll know Canada helped make that happen. Here's why Amazon is testing its drones here rather than in the U.S.
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Can Weather Data Alter Business Decisions? IBM Thinks So
IBM’s ongoing reorganization has birthed a new Internet of Things division, in which the giant tech company will invest $3 billion over the next four years. The unit’s first big move: an alliance with The Weather Company. The partnership will focus first on data services for retailers, insurance companies and utilities.
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McDonald's is testing all-day breakfast
McDonald's is going to experiment with serving breakfast all day. The chain will start testing a 24-hour breakfast menu next month at several locations in San Diego, the company told Business Insider. If the test is successful, McDonald's could expand it to other markets. Testing all-day breakfast "makes sense," Janney Capital Markets analyst Mark Kalinowski wrote in a recent research note. Some of the most "craveable" items on the McDonald's menu are the McMuffins and McGriddles, he noted.
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Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Something New April 30
Elon Musk certainly knows how to steal the thunder from his competitors. While other automakers are gearing up for big announcements at the New York Auto Show this week, the Tesla Motors chief just tweeted this: "Major new Tesla product line -- not a car -- will be unveiled at our Hawthorne Design Studio on Thurs 8pm, April 30"
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Why Does Nintendo Want This Superfan's YouTube Money?
YouTube game reviewers and gaming publishers battle back and forth over copyright issues, and YouTube's policies favor the big guys.
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Monday, 30 March 2015
Take a private jet to your college tour, for $43,000
If you're one of the lucky few for whom college won't break the bank -- or even make a dent -- a private jet company is offering to whisk you to all the colleges you wish to visit in a ten-hour span, for $43,500. That's nearly $15,000 more than the cost of the average tuition and fees at private universities, and $21,200 more than those at in-state public colleges, according to a College Board report.
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Ford's big Lincoln Continental is coming back
The Lincoln Motor Company, Ford's luxury division, unveiled a big, richly-appointed, luxury car called the Continental in New York City Monday. This car has a big job: To regain for Lincoln the respect it once had, decades ago, as a luxury car brand.
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The complex role of malls: private but sort-of-public spaces
Victor Gruen, inventor of Edina’s Southdale Mall, had dreams of saving ruined cities. As he saw it, postwar America had fallen on hard times, ruined by planners and their monolithic neighborhoods. Gruen wanted nothing more than to resurrect the vibrant street life of his native Vienna.
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Proponents of Raw Milk Are No Better Than Anti-Vaccine Advocates
There’s good reason to fear raw milk. A study from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland reported that raw milk consumption significantly increased the risk of foodborne illness. Detection rates of Listeria and Campylobacter—two common food-related bacteria—were seven percent and three percent, respectively, in raw milk samples. More alarmingly, rates of these dangerous bacteria rose to 20 percent and 22 percent in the milk filters used to remove specks of feces from the milk.
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Messaging apps shouldn't make money
Four days after Facebook announced its $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp on February 19 last year, an unadvertised six-month-old free messaging app called Telegram was downloaded 4.95 million times
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Will Periscope Kill Meerkat?
With Twitter's backing and a slew of features, will Periscope kill Meerkat's sudden rise to fame?
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Slack confirmed up to 500,000 users personal info has been leaked by hackers
Slack Technologies, creator of popular workroom chat service has been hacked, leaking up to 500,000 users personal information. The service allows employed to manage projects and work, using internal message boards.
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Sunday, 29 March 2015
Domino's policy changes on deliveries angers residents
There will be no more Domino's deliveries in the Lower 9th Ward after dark. It is one of the changes the pizza company is making after another one of its drivers was murdered in the Lower 9th Ward while on the job, but residents and one city leader say the policy change is a knee-jerk reaction that is singling out their community. "It just, again, puts a black eye on this community," said Vanessa Gueringer, a life-long resident of the Lower 9th Ward.
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Should You Tip on Takeout?
Americans feel strongly that tipping waiters and waitresses anything under 15% is perniciously cheap, yet most people seem equally certain that tipping on takeout orders is unnecessary. Is it really?
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Visiting King Nut - Snack Provider to the World's Airlines
King Nut and Summer Harvest: If you’ve ever enjoyed an airline snack at 35,000 feet and inspected the wrapper, chances are you are familiar with one, or both, of these name brands. They, alongside Peterson Nut Co., make up the King Nut Companies family. As a fan of the airline industry, and the companies that support it, I’ve long been familiar with King Nut, and have spotted their products on numerous airlines.
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Facebook, New York Times Deal Could Change News Business
In a scoop about itself this week, the New York Times reported the paper will give up some of its precious website traffic to Facebook, a move that some media observers call a power shift in the digital publishing landscape.
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New homeowner selling house because he can’t get Comcast Internet
One unlucky man who bought a house that can't get wired Internet service is reportedly selling the home just months after moving in.
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Saturday, 28 March 2015
Taking aim at tech industry inequality, Microsoft extends paid leave to thousands of contractors
Although people do many jobs at Microsoft’s sprawling campus in Redmond, Wash., there are fundamentally two types of workers. The first type is an employee, entitled to the generous pay and benefits Microsoft has long offered: paid parental leave, a 401(k) match, tuition assistance, discounted stock purchases, the list goes on. The second is a contractor, employed by one of Microsoft's 2,000 suppliers. Many of them do tasks similar to those of the employees...
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Something weird is going on in the US economy, and it's not good
Despite experiencing a healthy pace of job growth, the US economy has largely disappointed economists' expectations by delivering a series of weaker-than-expected economic reports. The unexpected plunges in retail sales and durable goods orders stand out as they reflect weakness in both consumers and businesses.
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Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelter is entering production
Ikea's line of flat-pack refugee shelters are going into production, the Swedish furniture maker announced this week, after being tested among refugee families in Ethiopia, Iraq, and Lebanon. The lightweight "Better Shelter" was developed under a partnership between the Ikea Foundation and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Each unit takes about four hours to assemble and is designed to last for three years...
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Money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it
Back in the 1930s, Henry Ford is supposed to have remarked that it was a good thing that most Americans didn't know how banking really works, because if they did, "there'd be a revolution before tomorrow morning". Last week, something remarkable happened. The Bank of England let the cat out of the bag.
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Meet The Cool Beans Designed To Beat Climate Change
A planet that is warming at extraordinary speed may require extraordinary new food crops. The latest great agricultural hope is beans that can thrive in temperatures that cripple most conventional beans. They're now growing in test plots of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, or CIAT, in Colombia. Many of these "heat-beater" beans resulted from a unique marriage, 20 years ago, of tradition and technology. The matchmaker was a Colombian scientist named Alvaro Mejia-Jimenez.
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The Invention of the Baby Carrot
Baby carrots are just regular carrots cut up and polished down. They're also the biggest thing to happen to carrots since orange. How did it happen? The year is 1986, and you operate one of the largest carrot farms and processing plants in California. The weather is beautiful, your farm is vast, and business is good. Life is perfect except for one thing: every day, you need to throw out tons of the vegetables you worked so hard to grow, because they just aren’t pretty enough to sell.
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What Happens When Apple Buys a Company You Depend On
Travis Jeffery is a software developer who’s been using a database system called FoundationDB for a project at his startup. Earlier this week, he noticed that the software had been pulled from the web. He soon received a terse email confirming that the software had been taken down intentionally, but little else. “We have made the decision to evolve our company mission,” it read. “And as of today, we will no longer offer downloads.”
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Amazon Hammers FAA For Lack Of 'Impetus' Over Drone Policy
Amazon.com is not pleased with the pace by which the Federal Aviation Administration is addressing the commercial use of drones and it let the public know in a congressional hearing on Tuesday. In a Washington, D.C. meeting with Senate members of the Subcommittee on Aviation, Operations, Safety and Security, Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president of global public policy, criticized the FAA for lacking “impetus” to develop timely policies for the operations of unmanned aerial systems...
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Friday, 27 March 2015
Diet Soda Drinkers Are Disappearing
Diet sodas are going back out of style. After four years of outselling Pepsi, Diet Coke is back in the No. 3 slot for top sodas in the U.S., according to the latest industry data, and other sugar-f...
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26 Blogging Tools to Simplify Your Life: An A-Z List |
Are you looking to improve your company blog? In this article you'll find some must-have blogging tools to help you get more out of your blogging.
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How a flailing startup became the world's biggest computing platform
Android is now one of the biggest computing platforms in the world. But it wasn't easy to get the industry to buy into Andy Rubin's radical vision.
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Tens of thousands of UK students turn to prostitution and sex work to pay off loans
Tens of thousands of students across the UK are turning to sex work to pay loans and fund upmarket lifestyles at university.
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Apple's Tim Cook to donate his fortune to charity
Apple CEO Tim Cook is going to give away his entire fortune multi-million dollar fortune to charitable causes.
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Meet Jevo, the Keurig of Jello Shots
Everyone who partied in college knows that Jello shots are tasty—but they take a frustratingly long time to set up. That’s why you typically make a big batch ahead of time, then accept the fact that you will run out. But what if there was a machine that automated the process? Better yet, what if that machine could crank out 20 Jello shots in just 10 minutes? That’s exactly what Oregon entrepreneur Jeff Jetton has done with Jevo, his newest creation.
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The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?
Both liberals and conservatives tend to resist the idea that poverty has fallen dramatically since 1964, although for different reasons. Conservatives’ resistance is easy to understand. They have argued since the 1960s that the federal government’s antipoverty programs were ineffective, counterproductive, or both... By Christopher Jencks
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The GOP Budget: Every Tax Loophole is Sacred
Every tax loophole is sacred. That's the prime guiding principle of the budget Republicans are trying to push through the Senate.
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Thursday, 26 March 2015
Hospitals Are Robbing Us Blind
Forget Obamacare. The real villains in the American health care system are greedy hospitals and the politicians who protect them. By Reihan Salam
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Taco Bell Turns Ronald McDonald Into a Dystopic Dictator, and It's Kind of Wonderful
Ronald McDonald is terrifying. The very first incarnation of him is terrifying, and even after the latest makeover, he’s still terrifying. This is not news. What is news is how Taco Bell brilliantly exploited the clown’s exaggerated features to turn him into an evil dictator for their latest campaign, “Routine Republic.”
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We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, because all human life depends on it
Imagine a wonderful world, a planet on which there was no threat of climate breakdown, no loss of freshwater, no antibiotic resistance, no obesity crisis, no terrorism, no war. Surely, then, we would be out of major danger? Sorry. Even if everything else were miraculously fixed, we’re finished if we don’t address an issue considered so marginal and irrelevant that you can go for months without seeing it in a newspaper.
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Apple's sales overhaul for Apple Watch will focus on building trust, offering fashion views, upselling bands
The job of Apple Retail Store employees will begin changing in profound ways next month. In order to showcase and sell the Apple Watch, retail employees will be trained to provide personal fashion and styling advice to customers, according to employees briefed on the plans. Until now, Apple Retail has been tasked with recommending iPads, iPhones and Macs with few styling options aside from limited color options.
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"It's a big deal": Rihanna on being the first black face of Dior
Rihanna is the gorgeous new face of Dior, which is a pretty big deal considering the French brand has never featured a black star in one of their campaigns.
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Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Google Working on Project to Let You Receive and Pay Bills Directly Inside Gmail
Google’s mission to organize the world’s information is now targeting your physical mailbox. The company is currently working on a project that will allow Gmail users to more easily receive bills in their email inbox instead of their mailbox. Called Pony Express, the service also is designed to let people pay their bills within Gmail, rather than having to go to a telecom or utility company’s website to complete a payment.
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Kraft and Heinz to Form North America's No.3 Food Company
Kraft Foods Group Inc, the maker of Velveeta cheese, will merge with ketchup maker H.J. Heinz Co, owned by 3G Capital and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, to form North America's third-largest food and beverage company.
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CN Rail Derailment Numbers Soared Before Recent Crashes
Canadian National Railway's safety record deteriorated sharply in 2014, reversing years of improvements, as accidents in Canada blamed on poor track conditions hit their highest level in more than five years.
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Cutting the TV Cord? Call the Anti-Cable Guy
The cable guy has a new competitor: the anti-cable guy. He helps you cut the cord on traditional television services and hooks you up with alternatives. .
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Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Apple soon to be worth more than $1tn, financial analysts predict
Apple has been valued at more than $1tn – almost three times as much as Google, the US’s second most valuable company. Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald on Monday said they thought Apple’s shares – which are currently trading at about $127, valuing the company at $733bn – could soon be worth $180 each, which would value the iPhone maker at $1.05tn.
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Why automation means we need a new economic model
It’s now possible to sell a new product to hundreds of millions of people without needing many, if any, workers to produce or distribute it. At its prime in 1988, Kodak, the iconic American photography company, had 145,000 employees. In 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy. The same year Kodak went under, Instagram, the world’s newest photo company, had 13 employees serving 30 million customers.
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We’re Frighteningly in the Dark About Student Debt
Imagine that a big, complicated company holds a huge portfolio of loans, many of which are in default or delinquency. The company’s leadership and some vocal shareholders demand a detailed review but receive a thin and incomplete report from the loan division. Financial analysts at headquarters want to scrutinize the data. But the loan division doesn’t turn it over. Without better data, the firm can’t move forward.
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The Largest Employer in Each of the 50 States
It is essential for a successful state economy to have a diverse array of employers. But the company that employs the most people in a state can have a disproportionately large impact on its economy and even influence an entire region.
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