American consumers turned in another strong month of spending in June despite a decline in spending on autos
Read More Housing market in Flint shows signs of comeback
As water crisis lingers, some remain optimistic that buyers and renters haven’t given up on living in the city
Read More More players join buying spree in downtown Detroit
Pending deals on 3 big buildings downtown — and none of the buyers are Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock
Read More IBM Says New Chip Can Filter Blood For Signs Of Cancer
Particles that might hold markers for cancer pass through a silicon obstacle course that sorts them by size.
Cancer starts small—at the nanometer scale, as DNA, RNA, and proteins develop harmful defects. So cancer detection has been moving down in size—toward “liquid biopsies” that filter blood and other bodily fluids to detect problems in cells or pieces of cells before tumors emerge.
How To Embrace Your Weaknesses And Become A Better Leader
One key to being a good boss is figuring out what type of leader you are, then adjusting your strengths and weaknesses to help the team.
People don’t quit jobs; they quit bosses. So when you’re the leader, your job directly impacts employee retention. While some people are naturally good at managing others, all of us have strengths and weaknesses that can affect our relationships with members of the team.
The Elio Autocycle Is The Super-Efficient Car Of The Future: Just Don’t Try To Drive It
It costs less than $10,000. It’s made entirely in America. It could change how we move around. But right now, sadly, it doesn’t do much at all to make you want to take it for a spin.
Elio Motors has been working on its three-wheeled car-cum-motorcycle (“autocycle”) since 2009. It plans finally to go into production in 2017 and it’s received 56,000 reservations from people eager to buy it. The company says the road-worthy vehicle will cost just $6,800, and have a highway-MPG of 84, putting it into a market category all its own. In every way, Elio has a good story to tell: a genuine American bootstrapping startup that’s developed a car—a whole car!—from scratch.
An Exclusive Look At Airbnb’s First Foray Into Urban Planning
Airbnb announces a brand-new innovation lab called Samara, whose first project is a novel community center in Japan.
Two years ago, the founders of Airbnb were asking themselves what the company could become, now that its vision of becoming the world’s largest home-share community had come true beyond their wildest expectations. That’s when they happened across a list of the top 10 tech companies of the 1990s. They were stunned—and scared. Nine of those once-hot companies were now floundering or dead, and they had all done everything right. But by simply focusing on their core businesses, each of those startups had allowed competitors to copy them. Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk realized that if they weren’t thinking of what else their business might become, Airbnb would eventually become a dowdy has-been.
What Uber China’s Merger With Didi Means For The Company’s Future
After years of bruising competition that cost them billions, the merger makes both companies much stronger.
On Monday, Uber China and its biggest rival in the country, ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing agreed to merge, ending a fierce competition between the two companies that was costing them billions of dollars. While Uber has a stranglehold on the market in many other countries, in China it was losing money, reportedly to the tune of $2 billion over the past two years.
Samsung’s New Note 7 Borrows The Galaxy S7’s Curves And Camera
The new Note features an iris scanner than can be used as an alternative authentication method.
Samsung released the Galaxy Note 5 last year, and this year brings the Galaxy Note 7. Wait. What happened to the Note 6? Samsung skipped from 5 to 7 for good reason. It wanted the new Note’s name to sound like that of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge devices, which are selling very well this year.
8 Steps To Push Past Your Limits When You Think You’ve Hit Them
We’re all excellent storytellers, especially when it comes to spinning a tale about why we failed. Here’s how to stop doing that.
Sometimes, when it comes to achievement, our biggest enemy is ourselves.
