Tag: Startups

Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, is still looking for the next big thing

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has remained immersed in technology while pursuing divergent interests since leaving the revolutionary company he started with the late Steve Jobs in 1985. Wozniak’s side projects included competing on “Dancing With The Stars” in 2009 and a guest appearance on “Big Bang Theory” during its fourth season. He is now participating in an online video show called “Unicorn Hunters” that assesses the ideas of entrepreneurs vying to build startups potentially worth $1 billion or more. Wozniak is on a jury that includes former US Treasurer Rosie…

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DJ Khaled releases his new chicken wing, another wing

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DJ Khaled on Thursday launched his latest venture, a sprawling start-up to deliver chicken wings with more than 150 kitchens in five countries on three continents — and plans to offer ski-boat delivery as it scales up. The Emmy-winning producer has teamed up with so-called ghost kitchen operator Reef Technology to launch a new chicken wings company, called Another Wing. Ghost kitchens are a type of delivery-only restaurant that has mushroomed during the pandemic as government restrictions shut down indoor dining options in cities around the world and restaurants turned…

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Uber and Lyft riders drop 15% in NYC, taxi rides soar

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Uber and Lyft rides in New York City are down 15 percent over the past few months — while yellow taxi fares are up 5 percent, reversing a long-running trend. New Yorkers took an average of 498,641 daily Uber/Lyft rides in June, but by September that number had dropped to 432,581, Commission on Taxi and Limousine data shows. Meanwhile, yellow taxi trips increased from 94,130 per day in June to 98,724 during the same months. New Yorkers once made about half a million taxi rides per day — until 2014,…

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