Airbnb managed to undercut a hotel industry that had been entrenched in global society for decades upon decades based on one simple principle: better lodgings at lower prices. That ethos still holds sway throughout much of Airbnb’s global operations, but for a few weeks in...
Objects in a car’s side-view mirror can often be larger than they appear. That’s good advice for Uber, because Lyft’s ridership numbers are starting to creep up on them in the same lane. First reported by Recode and confirmed by TechCrunch, Lyft’s ridership for July...
Three Dog Night’s prescient lyrics warned us all that while one is most certainly the loneliest number, “Two can be as bad as one / It’s the loneliest number since the number one.” In love, this is true, but in retail, friends in high, low and every...
Before Facetime, Skype introduced the idea of instantaneous global video and text chats to the average consumer. Fast forward several years and human talkers are no longer the focal point of Skype’s mission. Skype announced Wednesday (Aug. 3) that it had launched a series of chatbots...
Samsung’s new Galaxy Note7, its latest smartphone update, comes with a pretty cool new feature that consumers can probably expect to see more of in the future: an iris scanner that scans your eyeball before it unlocks as a security measure. Samsung’s Galaxy Note7 uses...
Boston doesn’t quite make it into the top tier of U.S. cities, like New York, L.A. and Chicago, but what it does offer in history, culture and sports draws tourists from across the country. New England likes to take care of its own, though, and...
Uber is pouring $500 million into developing its own mapping technology to wean itself off Google Maps and prepare for the advent of driverless cars, according to a report from Financial Times. According to the report, Uber currently has vehicles out “crisscrossing” the highways and byways...
Facebook and Twitter are trying to entice YouTube stars hesitant to post their content on the social networks by developing new ad models that would make it more financially appealing for them to post content, according to a report from Bloomberg. The average YouTube star...
Somewhere along the way from 1776 to today, America has adopted an ethos that bigger is almost always better — bigger office buildings, bigger staffs to fill them and bigger revenue streams to pay for it all. As far as Target is concerned, though, size doesn’t...
