80% of Android phones in China will have its default search set to Baidu

Yueguo Feng, general manager of Baidu’s wireless business unit, announced the company’s plans to further edge Google out of China by bringing Baidu search to Google-powered Android devices. Feng said that 80% of the Android smartphones that will be sold in China will have Baidu as its default search engine, according to a report fromTechWeb. This will further boost Baidu’s uncontested dominance in the country, holding about 75% of the search market....

2 min · 301 words · David Davis

85% of cars sold in Norway last month were electric

Get a load of this. Norway, that EV loving country ofSalmon slappers, has pretty much moved on entirely from gasoline cars. According to sales figures for last month, 85% of new cars sold were battery electric, or plug-in hybrid. Drilling down into those numbers a little more, BEVs come out on top. Some 56.3% of new cars sold in Norway last month were battery powered, while 28.6% were plug-in hybrid....

2 min · 229 words · Anthony Norman

8tracks wants to become your favorite place to discover new music all over again

8tracks wants to become your favorite place to discover new music all over again 8tracks history The company was established in 2008 by David Porter and Remi Gabillet with an idea to build a ‘music-oriented social network’. The concept was simple, you pick eight or more tracks to build a ‘mix’ and let the world enjoy it. Plus, you could attach multiple labels to describe the mood of the playlist.And you could be creative and attach new tags to classify the playlist in a more nuanced way — like sleepy chill or leather jacket....

6 min · 1099 words · William Nunez

9 easy Slack tips to make remote more bearable for your team

9 easy Slack tips to make remote more bearable for your team Create an announcements channel Every office at Slack has an announcements channel – a channel that’s set to read-only for most employees, but which admins, office managers and internal communications can use to post important information. At times like this, these channels become both vital and mandatory; information shifts away from what’s on the shared lunch menu and towards updates about office closures, advisories on travel and services and links to support what we have in place for our employees, plus their extended families and communities....

5 min · 1006 words · James Fernandez Jr.

9 Inspiring Videos about Health and Fitness

What is fitness? The firstdefinitionof fitness is: “health”. Health isdefinedas “the general condition of the body or mind with reference to soundness and vigor:good health; poor health.” Last week, we posted a story on10 tips for entrepreneurs to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This weekend, we’ll take an in-depth look on the future of fitness and the companies that are taking us there. As part of a two-week study on the future of fitness, we’ve dug up 9 inspiring videos on health and fitness....

6 min · 1174 words · Tracy Saunders
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