Uber and Lyft hoped ‘rainy day’ fund would relax NYC regulations

Ridesharing companies really, really don't like the thought of New York City capping their services and otherwise instituting new regulations. To that end, they recently tried a drastic measure: making a charity offer in return for concessions. Lyf...

Texas city drops its bus service in favor of ridesharing vans

Ridesharing companies often dream of changing the face of public transportation, but one of them is going a step further -- it's becoming the only option for public transportation in one community. Arlington, Texas is replacing its bus service with V...

Los Angeles taps a shuttle service to get riders to Metro stops

Most people find a short walk to and from a public transportation stop pretty reasonable, but the further away that stop is from their home or their destination, the less convenient it becomes. Well the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation...

Executive Creative Directors Evaluate Super Bowl Advertising


One week from today is the Super Bowl of advertising with an hour of football in-between. I wanted all of us to enjoy these TV spots to the fullest. To that end, I asked myself what makes a great...

Apple To Infinity: Mobile Payments, Touch ID And All That Sapphire


Forget Gorilla Glass. Apple has its own patented method of affixing a sapphire substrate to a touch screen. According to a report on the Chinese language Apple Daily blog (translated via Google and...

Girl Meets World will be Full Season


Girl Meets World is a spin-off of Boy Meets World and will start airing on the Disney channel this year. Now Disney ordered more episodes to make it a full season show featuring 21 episodes. ...

Yahoo Acquires Cloud Party


Yahoo has outdone itself. It is about to make an acquisition in the form of Cloud Party. Cloud Party is a free virtual gaming world experience that is based on virtual reality. Cloud Party team...