Big tires, short chainstays, double crankset, pick two. Normally. Then there’s the concept of a boost road bike, in which case, pick all three. I call it a concept because there’s a lot that has to go into making a boost road bike a reality. To go from 142mm rear …
Read More »Transsion Seeking to Go Public on a Technology Innovation Board
Transsion, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, which dominates the African market, is planning to go public on Shanghai’s technology innovation board. Established in 2006, the company has its headquarters in Shenzhen, with four sub-brands; Tecno, Itel, Infinix and Spice. The company also offers after-sales services under the brand Carlcare, manufactures mobile …
Read More »Kia Vies To Become Industry’s Mass-Market Maker of EVs
The Korean brand says that it’s uniquely positioned to bring EVs to the masses. Nearly every carmaker showed off EVs at this month’s Geneva Motor Show. But there was only one brand in Geneva – Tesla wasn’t there – that can make all these claims: Stories about Niro EV and …
Read More »Sloths: how did two different animals wind up looking so similar? | Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission
Hanging lazily from tree branches where they barely move for hours on end, sloths hardly seem like born survivors. Yet the sloths that creep through the rainforest canopies of Central and South America are the last remaining members of a group of animals that has roamed the Earth for at …
Read More »Bee diversity critical to world’s food supply | Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission
Wild bees are hugely important not only to natural environments, but also to our very way of life. They are vital for pollinating wildflowers, as well as many of the crops we rely on for our everyday daily vegetables and fruit. ‘One out of every three mouthfuls of food …
Read More »Applauding Canada’s commitment to women, innovation and private sector partnerships for inclusive and prosperous future | Vaccines work
Marie-Ange Saraka-Yao, Managing Director for Resource Mobilisation and Private Sector Partnerships, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance A few weeks ago, the Canadian government unveiled its 2018 budget, which marks a welcome push towards more predictable and effective financing for international assistance. With its ambitious new Feminist International Assistance Policy in place, Finance …
Read More »Danny Leyva Is The Youngest Player In Sounders History.
Leyva has already been playing for the Sounders USL squad, the Tacoma Defiance, where he became the divisions second-youngest player to ever start a match. The Las Vegas native turns 16 in May. If he played even a minute this season, he would be younger than any other player to …
Read More »Grab plans to raise $2B more this year to fund an acquisition spree in Southeast Asia
Always be raisin’. That appears to be the motto of Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing companies Grab and Go-Jek. Fresh from closing a near-$1.5 billion raise from SoftBank’s Vision Fund as part of a huge, multi-billion Series H deal, Grab said today that it plans to extend the round to $6.5 billion …
Read More »NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes Second Close Approach to Sun
On April 4, 2019, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe achieved its second perihelion (close approach) of the Sun and flew within 15 million miles (24 million km) of our star’s surface. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Image credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. “Parker Solar Probe is performing …
Read More »Why search marketers need call tracking and analytics
While you have access to end-to-end customer journey data and attribution from purely digital campaigns, the data trail goes cold when your customer picks up the phone. Call tracking and analytics platforms, which were once the domain of the call center and siloed from marketing, are now available to help …
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