Sure there are services that offer this already, but if Uber can make this truly accessible, for people to earn an extra dollars in their free time, this could be a major game changer. Uber explained that it has partnered with local businesses in Chicago to offer would-be workers roles in six job categories: back-of-house, front-of-house, warehouse, cleaning, customer service and general labor. Jobs taken might include bartending, assembly-line work,…

“We basically compete in an ecosphere that’s got five entities in it,” Smith said, adding: “There is UPS. There is DHL. There is a US Postal Service. And now increasingly there is Amazon. That’s who we wake up every day trying to think about how we compete against and give the best services to our sales force.” I am getting a Blockbuster feeling about FedEx – though this time, after…

Anything you pump into your body, that let’s face it isn’t water, is going to have side effects – death being one of the harsher ones.   The new e-cigarettes was somewhat wishful thinking by the industrial titans of health, (namely the tobacco industry) that this was their next product growth opportunity now that smoking was finally recognized as something that “may cause cancer”. The $38 billion e-cig company, partially owned…

It is ridiculous that this is still happening in this day’n’age.  We are not making it at all harder for the would-be hackers. Researchers have found serious security vulnerabilities in over 600,000 GPS trackers that may have exposed users data, including the exact real-time GPS coordinates. Source: Over half a million active GPS trackers have ‘123456’ as default password