Why This Business Model Is Opening the Door to Entrepreneurship for People With Almost No Capital
Micro-franchising helps people with limited resources become business owners by offering low-cost and proven franchise models.
The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…
How This Pair of Dermatologist Brothers Set Out to Fix Hair Loss Treatment in America
Doctors Ben and Sean Behnam built an alternative to one-size-fits-all solutions with their new company, Happy Head.
Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp
The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.
Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech
Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.
France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack
France’s postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.
This Shake Shack Exec’s Family Didn’t Believe Hers Was a ‘Real Job.’ Here’s How She’s Bringing Innovation to the Brand.
Steph So discusses how she blends hospitality with technology, why curiosity drives her decisions and how Shake Shack keeps innovating without losing its soul.
‘We Don’t Control the Weather’: How This Airport CEO Keeps Calm in Chaos
Christina Cassotis, CEO of Pittsburgh International Airport, says the first step in dealing with pandemonium is embracing it.
Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system
The Uzbek government’s national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.
Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify
Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.
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