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albert555 writes:
Uber's curse keeps on striking after Uber’s office in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was raided by authorities the 30th of April 2015. Uber is accused of running an “illegal” transport service, according to the Guangzhou Daily. Uber has been implanted in China since August 2013 and is suspected of not having the proper qualifications to run a private car business in the city. Following the recent German court ban 2 weeks ago, who will win the fight for private transportation? long-term established transportation companies with powerful lobbying power or the newcomer making use of disruptive technology? Does Schumpeter's creative destruction also apply to the transportation sector?
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albert555 writes:
Five popular French web hosting providers, including Gandi and OVH, said on Thursday that the new French intelligence bill might push them to leave the country in order not to lose their customers. The five companies are protesting against the "real-time capture of data connection" and their analysis by the intelligence services using "+black boxes+ with blurred lines". The web hosting providers believe that this project "will not reach its goal and will potentially put every French citizen under surveillance, that will result in the destruction of a major segment of the economy of our country," by pushing their customers to turn to other less intrusive territories. If the bill is passed as it is, "we have to move our infrastructure, our investments and our employees where our customers want to work with us". The companies have provided a listing of dozen cities where they "will suppress jobs instead of creating new ones."; "These are thousands of jobs (...) that startups and large companies will also create elsewhere," they add. The press release was addressed to the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, and was co-signed by Gandu, OVH, IDS, Ikoula and Lomaco.
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albert555 writes:
A new collaborative project emerged lately and its goal is pretty ambitious: solving complex problems. Anyone will look for google or quora to the response of a usual question that requires one single answer, but nothing exist online to solve complex problems with multiple solutions. The website uses brainstorming techniques coupled with the Problem Tree Methodology to solve complex problems; in simple words: decomposing the main issue into subsequent small-ones and providing solutions to the sub-issues, the result taking form of a node tree. Users are free to provide meaningful contents to the nodes and therefore may help understand the causes of the issues or to provide solutions to the ultimate sub-issues, contributions are placed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. When Wikipedia proved that collective intelligence could provide quality contents able to compete with the major encyclopedias, Eris Solver intents to channel the wisdom of the crowd to find the best solutions to the most complex problems available.
