Equity podcast: A Thanksgiving-ish special episode Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, so if you are reading this in America I hope there is a pet leaned up against your legs and that you are sitting next to a […]
Read moreBlack Friday predicted to hit $6.4B in online sales, $643M spent so farAfter a record-breaking Thanksgiving with $3.7 billion in digital sales across desktop and mobile devices, it looks like Black Friday will also pull in a bumper year for e-commerce. Adobe — which tracks trillions of transactions across a range of retail sites — […]
Read moreMeituan, China’s ‘everything app,’ walks away from bike sharing and ride hailingA major player in the race to transport Chinese people around is losing steam. Meituan Dianping, the Tencent-backed, all-encompassing platform for local services, continues to put the brakes on bike-sharing and ride-hailing, the company said on its earnings call on Thursday. The eight-year-old firm […]
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Silentmode’s PowerMask is a $200 connected relaxation maskI barely slept my second night at Chunking Mansions. The loud neighbors, the hot Hong Kong air, the landlord banging on the door after midnight: None of these things are particularly conducive to a peaceful rest, and for once in my life I actually looked forward to attempts […]
Read moreEngineering celebrated in thanksgiving service at Westminster AbbeyThe national event in London’s Westminster Abbey today (Thursday 22 November) was the first of its kind. It was held to mark both the Government’s Year of Engineering and the bicentenary of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), and was jointly organised by the Government, ICE and the […]
Read moreMany engineers ‘unable to discuss feelings of isolation at work’According to research by the British Red Cross, which questioned a representative sample of over 4,000 adults across Britain, 53 per cent of those with jobs in the engineering sector say they feel lonely always, often or sometimes. Thirty-one per cent admitted that they don’t have […]
Read moreStudent Raspberry Pi challenge focuses on transport solutionsNow in its seventh year, the annual PA Consulting Raspberry Pi competition is open to teams of young people who have used their ingenuity to invent something for the credit card-sized device. The theme of travel and transport opens the door to entries that address anything from security […]
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