LawPivotis legal matchmaking made in heaven for startups. CEO Jay Mandal, the former lead mergers and acquisitions attorney at Apple, started LawPivot in 2009 with Nitin Gupta, the site’s Co-Founder, who was working as an intellectual property litigation lawyer in California. Gupta saw needs on both the startup and legal sides of business. First, bootstrapped startups are fundamentally adverse to high legal costs and it is often very difficult to find the right lawyer whether it be a corporate, IT or tax lawyer, likely impossible to find one that can handle all three....

This article was originally published byChristopher CareyonCities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates, follow Cities Today onTwitter,Facebook,LinkedIn,Instagram, andYouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The UK city of Leicester is installing 30 “living” bus shelter roofs as part of a new programme to revamp its infrastructure while supporting the environment. Working with advertising firmClear Channel, the so-called “bee bus stops” will be planted with a mix of wildflowers to attract pollinating insects and add extra greenery to the city....

Lemurs might hold the key to human hibernation necessary for Mars missions It’s cold and dark out there Space is unforgiving. In this freezing void of darkness, there is no oxygen, no gravity , and no protection against the constant shower of cosmic radiation. Humans haveevolved under a constant gravitational pull— so when you put people into space, strange and dangerous things happen to their bodies. However, scientists and engineers working with astronauts on the International Space Station have innovated and continue to address these problems....

The idea of borrowing DRM-protected e-books has developed quickly over the past couple of months, with Barnes & Noble and Amazon both offering the option for users to ‘lend’ an e-book to a friend once for each title they buy. Users have quick to get together to offer more organised ways of connecting lenders with borrowers and the best-looking solution we’ve seen so far isLendInk. Using LendInk is as simple as could possibly be....

Lendleis a network that aims to bridge the gap of Kindle book exchanging by enabling U.S-based Amazon users to borrow and lend books to people they don’t know. Sharing with the network doesn’t require a Kindle either, the service can be used through Kindle apps including Mac, PC, iOS and Android versions. To begin swapping books, users can sign up to the site and provide Lendle their Amazon credentials but users are given a strict two week time frame to finish the book....