Thursday, December 31, 2015

Top Stories of the Day // December 30, 2015

Watch Two Guys Stick A GoPro Into A Homemade Pneumatic Cannon And Shoot It Really High | Sidecar Is Calling It Quits On Rides And Deliveries | Microinsurance Is The Answer To The Insurance Industry | The Indian Startup Scene In 2015 | Flaming Wreckage Of Clinkle Rebuilds As A Referral Service | Foodpanda Lays Off 15 Percent Of Its Staff In India | This $19,000 Hoverboard Will Let You Ride For Five Minutes At A Time |
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | John Biggs

Watch Two Guys Stick A GoPro Into A Homemade Pneumatic Cannon And Shoot It Really High

There are few things as exciting as shooting things into the air using a 3D-printed cannon. That’s why this video is so important – and so... Read More…
Megan Rose Dickey

Sidecar Is Calling It Quits On Rides And Deliveries

Sidecar, the on-demand car service that was supposed to compete with Lyft and Uber, is shutting down at the end of this year, Sidecar CEO Sunil Paul wrote on... Read More…
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CRUNCH NETWORK | Raj Ramanand

Microinsurance Is The Answer To The Insurance Industry

Let's be real. The insurance industry has barely evolved since Benjamin Franklin introduced the concept in the late 1700s. You'd think after three hundred... Read More…
CRUNCH NETWORK | Srikar Srinivasula

The Indian Startup Scene In 2015

India has now become one of the largest bases for startups in the world after the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. It is also the youngest with... Read More…
Josh Constine

Flaming Wreckage Of Clinkle Rebuilds As A Referral Service

Clinkle imploded after employees quit en masse in May, protesting how its young CEO Lucas Duplan was mismanaging the $30 million-funded payments startup. But... Read More…
Catherine Shu

Foodpanda Lays Off 15 Percent Of Its Staff In India

Foodpanda, the restaurant delivery service backed by Rocket Internet, has laid off about 300 of its employees in its Indian unit. This means Foodpanda India,... Read More…
Jordan Crook

This $19,000 Hoverboard Will Let You Ride For Five Minutes At A Time

Given that no real, average human is scooting to first period on a hover board, there sure are quite a few of them hovering about on the internet, from the... Read More…
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