Travelers from Los Angeles to San Francisco will have a lower carbon footprint this fall. Many other flights could soon follow.
If you happen to get on a United flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco this fall, you might be traveling on leftovers from the farm. The airline will be the first in the country to start flying regular passenger flights on alternative jet fuel—in the case, made from a mix of non-edible oils and agricultural waste blended with traditional fuel.
The director and writer of Addicted To Fresno on the Natasha Lyonne revival and breaking Judy Greer out of the “best friend” box.
Getting the opportunity to make feature films is hard when your movies occupy the cultural space that Jamie Babbit’s do. She’s never made a film that cost more than a million dollars, and movies full of queer feminist themes are rarely box office breakouts. But Babbit and her wife, screenwriter Karey Dornetto, found an opportunity to pursue their next project in an unexpected way: they answered an ad.
Apple has recruited publishers like Conde Nast and Vox Media in its quest to create the news reader to beat all news readers.
Apple has signed up several new media brands to its upcoming Apple News app, which is intended as a competitor to Flipboard and other news aggregators. As Apple gears up for a quiet launch of the product this fall, it has recruited more than 50 publishers to distribute their content through the platform.
The photo-sharing service’s under-the-radar Instagram Direct feature is about to get a big boost in visibility and features.
Instagram is best known, of course, as a service that lets more than 300 million people a month share photos and videos with the world. Rather quietly, it’s also racked up 85 million users a month who use it to exchange private messages with friends.
Google has a new logo that ditches the old serif look, and reacts to you in all contexts.
You will very soon notice that Google has a new logo that’s sleeker, brighter, and for the first time, animated. And then, you probably won’t notice it at all.
In a new partnership with Hilton, Uber is using its data in an unexpected way.
You may have heard that Uber will take over the world. Is taking over the world. Has already taken over the world.
A young Williams foresees greatness ahead of the U.S. Open.
“If you were a tennis player, who would you want to be like?”
The dominant online payments company in Europe, Klarna, takes on Stripe and PayPal for domination of the U.S. online payments market.
For the last few years, Sweden-based online payment provider Klarna has slowly and steadily become a bigger e-commerce presence than PayPal…in Europe. Its arrival in the U.S. seemed to be a matter of “when” rather than “if” (CNN Money speculated about Klarna’s American intentions way back in June 2014)—and that when is today.
The professional social network is moving away from its old-school, email-style messages.
Professional networking site LinkedIn gave its formerly clunky messaging service a sleek revamp—which means it is no longer modeled after your black hole of an email inbox.
In a world obsessed with tidying, professional organizers like Marie Kondo are a rising commercial force.
In a restaurant where the ceiling is a work of art and the books on the shelf are arranged by color, eBay is holding a promotional event for its new service, eBay Valet. On the tables—around which sit guests from magazines like InStyle and Redbook—are tiny, beautifully illustrated booklets of flashcards featuring organizing guru Marie Kondo’s tips for tidying kids’ stuff, “exclusive to eBay.”
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