Inside Facebook’s ‘cult-like’ workplace
Inside Facebook’s ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time
SCREEN real estate…
What’s next after the smartphone? “Trillion dollar market” “Insatiable appetite: But both our appetite and capacity for digesting visual information is tremendous. We love screens, and the bigger the better.” “10 years”…
techcrunch.com 
Showing off… With a smartphone…?
This author of “The Verge” magazine has some interesting priorities when reviewing the brand-new Galaxy Fold smartphone. For him, owning a device like this, seems to be all about showing off and impressing people (most likely someone he doesn’t even know or care about). Is this reality – or only his world??? Are people really buying a new smartphone to impress someone?? Is the smartphone replacing the car as a status symbol? Are there really people out there who believe that “person A” would rather initiate a conversation with “person B”, who owns a phone of a certain brand than with “person C”, who owns a phone of different brand (or design, value, etc…)?? Silly me, I had thought it was all about productivity, enjoying gadgets, design, our “Insatiable appetite for more screen real estate” – etc…
The Verge 
toys… those scooters have a lifespan of just 30-90 days
/in Micro Mobility /by Air7“The companies began operating before a suitably robust industrial scooter existed, so they all used the same consumer models from companies like Xiaomi and Ninebot. According to some industry experts, those scooters have a lifespan of just 30-90 days before being broken beyond repair from nearly constant commercial misuse. Both Bird and Lime are working on their own industrial strength scooters, but neither has rolled them out to the public yet. ”
Electric scooter sharing is currently not sustainable and the companies are nowhere near profitability. Here are four possibe future scenarios for electric
BMW e-scooter
/in Micro Mobility /by Air7e-scooter sharing was one of the biggest business surprises of 2018 – and keeps promising huge profits. The first hype is gone and the news start filling up with accident reports. It was just a question of time until the public realized that the hardware was just “toy-grade”, mostly provided by one single manufacturer in China. This is about to change:
Especially for a young and urban audience, the BMW X2City will be launched in Europe in a few days. The price starts at 2,399 euros