Category: Business
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Priceline for Medical Care
We live in a Share & Bid Economy: There’s Priceline for Cars/Hotel, Shipping Wars on A&E for transporting goods and eBay for everything else. Well, now there’s a new service called Medibid and it works exactly like you’d expect: For $25, patients post bids for out-patient medical treatment (i.e. knee surgery) and doctors submit bids. The doctor must provide…
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Hack the Hood
Planes. Bailouts. Budgets. Violence. When it comes to local news, I’ll pass. Add in cable and it’s even more of a fiasco – from one extreme (FOX News) to another (MSNBC). I resort to reading my daily blogs and resources like The Economist and National Public Radio (NPR). It’s the latter that caught my attention…
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STREET by 50
When Beats headphones first came out, I ran out and purchased a shiny new pink pair. A couple of days later, I headed to the gym. The listening experience was awful, mostly because my sweat pooled in the ear of the headphone. This did NOT feel great so I promptly returned them. Yes, they looked cool, but for…
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FitBit for Money
Remember Bump? The Google app that allowed you to “tap” another app to transfer contact information to a friend? The idea seemed pretty cool at the time, even though it failed. What if you could use this same concept of “tapping” or “bumping” to send cash to a friend or perform other financial transactions?! Not with your…
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Hacking Telsa
Telsa, an electric car company, is being touted as the Apple of the auto industry, meaning its innovating and selling users experiences they never knew they wanted or needed (Forbes). Just as iPhone users have hacked their way into Apple’s devices for years, Business Insider is reporting that Telsa’s touch-screen is possible one step away…
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