Amazon will acquire startup Emvantage to develop its Indian e-commerce site's payment platform. In a press announcement, Amazon said the Noida-based company's employees will start working for Amazon's payment team after the transaction is completed. Read MoreTuesday, 16 February 2016
Amazon Acquires Emvantage To Build Its Online Payment Platform In India
Amazon will acquire startup Emvantage to develop its Indian e-commerce site's payment platform. In a press announcement, Amazon said the Noida-based company's employees will start working for Amazon's payment team after the transaction is completed. Read More
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
Uber To Allow Some People With Nonviolent Convictions To Become Drivers
Uber is going to ease up on some of its driver-screening requirements in California in order to make room for people convicted of nonviolent crimes, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today. Under Proposition 47, a California ballot measure that passed in 2014, people with low-level, nonviolent felonies for things like theft, check fraud and possession of drugs can apply to remove… Read MoreSunday, 10 January 2016
Elegance, illustrated: heliocentrism vs geocentrism
In a gorgeous animation, Malin Christersson shows how much simpler it is to plot out celestial mechanics when you assume that all the bodies in our solar system are in orbit around the sun, rather than the other way around. (more…)
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Dog brothers promise to stop fighting, but only for a treat
Dog brothers, human brothers: essentially the same creature
In a video posted by Kyoot Animals, two Dachshunds, believed to be brothers, are engaged in a brutal tug-of-war. Nothing — not their own's commands, not their very own suffering — stops them from participating in combat. Their end, it seems, is guaranteed.
Only when the owner steps to offer a "treat" do the dogs declare an official ceasefire. Not every war ends in such a beautiful a peace treat(y).
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Airbnb forces humans to travel to special one-day office to see its housing data
NEW YORK CITY — "Have him call Peter when he gets here and we'll show him the data."
With that message emailed to my editor, I was cast out on the rainy streets of New York in search of Airbnb's long-awaited treasure trove of data shedding light on the usage habits, financial impact and maybe, just maybe, the legality of its thousands of apartment listings throughout the five boroughs
Airbnb agreed to release The Data, as it will henceforth be known, on Tuesday after a pledge last month to work "collaboratively" rather than combatively with cities (forget about that whole "army" thing) by paying its fair share of taxes and disclosing more information about its customers to help policymakers Read more...
More about Travel, Airbnb, Business, Startups, and Travel LeisureSaturday, 21 November 2015
Chernin’s Otter Media Invests $22M Into Anime Service Crunchyroll
Otter Media says it’s investing another $22 million in Ellation, the parent company of anime-focused video service Crunchyroll. Founded in 2006, Crunchyroll’s content includes relatively well-known shows like Naruto Shippuden and Sailor Moon, as well as more obscure programming. The company says it now has 20 million registered users and expects to reach 750,000 paying… Read MoreTuesday, 20 October 2015
Now you can stay warm and snuggle with Drake all winter long
Drake just dropped his Hotline Bling video to much applause, and now you can get his winter look through his collaboration with Canada Goose
Repping his country, Drake and the Canadian outerwear brand in conjunction with Drake's own clothing label, October's Very Own (OVO), will feature three limited-edition pieces, all available Oct. 24. The partnership brings together two success stories out of Toronto
Image: Canada Goose
The limited-run will include a Chilliwack bomber for women ($895), a men's Foxe bomber, which includes a removable shearling collar ($1125), as well as a ball cap ($50). All come in sexy satin with gold details Read more...
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