With 1M global charge points, what’s next for EV charging? Power struggle Those million plugs are scattered all over the world, but are mainly found in China, the world’s largest EV market, Europe and the U.S. In this country and elsewhere a phenomenon gathering steam is the quest for ever-faster charging, aiming to get to the point where bringing an electric car up to full charge takes no longer than filling up an ICE gas tank....
In 2005, Cliff Lerner was working on Wall St. as an equities analyst at Lehman Brothers while his brother Darrell was running a sports related Internet company. Feeling crunched for time but still wanting to go out on hot dates in New York City, Cliff saw an opportunity to build a business where busy professionals like himself could schedule dates by appointment. With support from his brother Darrell, Cliff left the banking business altogether (win!...
In December of 2010,Fabulis, a social network for gay men turned intoFab.com, a daily deals site for gay men. Then, this spring, Jason Goldberg, Fab’s CEO turned the shipin yet another direction, dropping its niche demographic to become a top destination for quality designed objects at below retail prices. Two weeks ago,Fab announcedthat after just 115 days since launch, it had processed 100,000 orders containing 200,000 items. Since then, Fab has crossed its 750,000 user milestone, adding more than 30,000 new members per week, half of whom are coming virally via share links via Twitter, Facebook, and Email....
While AllThingsDdoesn’t have details on Google’s supposed offer, Peter Kafka writes that in addition to Amazon, Yahoo, and the Dish Network, now Google has made moves to buy Hulu, the online TV site. Last week,the Financial Times reportedthat Yahoo, Amazon and Dish are all expected to offer between $1.5-$2 billion for Hulu, in exchange for the free site, its subscription service and rights to exclusive content for at least two years....
Earlier this morning, Amazon became the first of what we believe will be a number of corporations to announce the launch of a digital music locker – calledAmazon Cloud Drive– allowing its customers to upload their music tracks and to listen to them on the go using Amazon’s Cloud Player on their Android device or desktop computer. With reports that Apple is readying a very similar feature in its MobileMe service, Amazon moved quickly to launch its service, purposefully choosing to sidestep Apple’s iOS platform and a potential revenue share (30% of new subscriptions) with its rival....
