Thousands of Amazon workers in six distribution centers throughout Germany, and one in Italy, have gone on strike during Black Friday in protest for better wages. Around 500 workers are taking part in the one-day strike in Amazon’s main distribution hub in Italy. They have […]
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Oral History: How Marvel’s Creative Head Helped Bring Nintendo to America
Today videogames are a multibillion-dollar industry, as much a part of popular culture as movies or music. But in 1983 the console gaming industry looked like it was headed for a kill screen. Atari, Intellivision, and ColecoVision had run the market into the ground, and […]
Shopify’s live streaming the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales frenzy
[embedded content] Ever wonder what Black Friday’s consumerist rush looks like in real time? Now you can see it visualized in the stream above, which is a visualization of sales occurring on Shopify’s platform across its many merchants globally. Those dots represent sales in actual […]
The best Black Friday deals 2017
Amazon Echo 2nd Generation Street Price: $100; Deal Price: $80 The first sale we’ve seen on the upgraded model of the Echo.The 2nd Generation Amazon Echo is our pick in our guide to the best Alexa-compatible smart-home devices for Amazon Echo. We wrote, “An Amazon […]
Equity podcast: Stitch Fix and Sailpoint get their IPOs done
AUDIO Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we assembled the full crew — Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof and Alex Wilhelm — along with Stephanie Palmeri from Uncork Capital. Palmeri has invested in Poshmark, […]
Vieste – SPORTELLO AGENZIA ENTRATE – NOBILETTI
Lo “Sportello Decentrato” dell'Agenzia delle Entrate di Vieste, ubicato presso il Muncipio, dovrebbe chiudere dal 1° dicembre. La decisione rientra unicamente in un programma di digitalizzazione dei servizi in corso di attuazione da parte dell'Agenzia delle Entrate. In pratica meno sportelli, meno … by Livio Acerbo […]
Donna uccisa al parco, Villa Litta sotto choc: «Ora regna la paura»
Gli abitanti: «Qui non succede mai nulla: è un posto frequentato, c'è sempre un sacco di gente, a ogni ora. E poi quello è proprio l'unico punto ben illuminato e con telecamere». di Piepaolo Lio. di Piepaolo Lio. A-A+. shadow. Stampa. Ascolta. Email. by Livio […]
BMW Proposes Elevated Cycling Paths for Congested Cities
In its first century as a company, BMW has made industrial engines, motorcycles, Steve Urkel’s Isetta, and a whole lot of cars. Now, it wants to build something altogether new: an elevated bike path. This week, the automaker’s somewhat redundantly named Research, New Technologies, Innovations […]
Yamaha’s MX88 synth turns your iPhone into a real instrument
The $1,299 (You’ll really only pay $999) MX88 is the latest member of Yamaha’s entry-level MX lineup. But the keyboard’s sounds and weighted key action are that of far more expensive synthesizers. The instrument ships with over 1,000 voices (instrument sounds) from the company’s more […]
Can a cryptocurrency be used to fight hate speech, fake news and divisive politics?
Can a cryptocurrency push back against the tide of hate speech, ‘fake news’ and divisive politics? A new initiative, Ananas, is going to try. Effectively, they want to fight radicalization by “mapping ideologies”, providing a compass to navigate belief systems and using cryptocurrency to reward […]