Taxi Stockholm 150000 is a fast-moving leader in an industry famous for its old-fashioned ways. A CEO who knows how to drive change put 3,822 cabbies on the road to the future.READ»
A couple in Sweden are getting grief from the authorities in Stockholm for wanting to name their baby after the popular heavy metal band Metallica.
Stories like this make me feel so much better about myself. Here I am, on a ...READ»
Stockholm, already a green city, is getting even greener with a new commitment to its Royal Seaport District under construction. Though plans for the district have been in the works for years in one form or another, a full political ...READ»
Biofuel comes from some strange sources--watermelon, coffee grounds, and poop, to name a few. But when does the weirdness cross over into immorality? Perhaps when we start burning bunnies for biofuel.
As unbelievable as it may ...READ»
Mattias Hansson helps train 1,300 students a year in digital media, interactive art direction, and digital business management in Stockholm and on a former prison island off the coast of Sweden. Graduates are hotly recruited by such firms as Crispin Porter + Bogusky and Ideo.READ»
The oil spill is killing me. My suitcase is killing me. But mostly it's Robyn's interactive twideo that's killing Twitter users. The firm behind it is Blip Boutique, an L.A.-based collective led by James Frost--the guy behind ...READ»
One creative source of revenue New York City is considering: Carbon credits. Yesterday, public transit chief Eliot Sander was on the Brian Lehrer show discussing the "doomsday budget", which basically is a choice between bad and ...READ»
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Hospitality for Everyone
"Restaurateur Danny Meyer Says Celebrities Generate Buzz, But Regular Folks Pay the Bills"
The House on Autopilot
Remote control rooms
Survivors of the Worst Of Job Interviewers Commit ...READ»
1. Mets Play Hardball
More than any other major-league baseball team, the New York Mets have tinkered with variable ticket prices that fluctuate in tandem with "platinum" game times (say, summer weekends) and ...READ»
One Sunday we returned to Denmark, as our boat anchored in Arhus, an attractive city university. Among the 300,000 inhabitants are 40,000 students. There was a lot of high schools on the pier to welcome you to the port in Aarhus Havn. ...READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation was dancing the merengue.1. BlackBerry addicts have been given a 60-day reprieve by the Indian government. Today was to be the deadline for Research In Motion to hand over access to its users' data ...READ»
Last month, I mentioned Song's experiment with a short-lived retail store in New York City. Its shelf life? Six weeks. An alert FC Now reader emailed me about a similar retail experiment -- one that may very well have been the ...READ»
Dr. Hans Rosling is a legendary TED presenter: He's appeared there a half-dozen times, using stats in ingenious ways to dispel common myths about the developing world. A professor at Karolinska
Institutet in Stockholm, he's got a ...READ»
These are nervous times for the companies showing off their wares at the sprawling Milan Furniture Fair. At the same time, a showcase for luxurious goods is as good a place as any to see how the prevailing grey mood is translating ...READ»
Ten years ago the fashionable destination for design-minded travelers was the Guggenheim at Bilbao, where Frank Gehry's titanium acrobatics famously cast their spell. When design tourists pack their black clothing this month they will ...READ»
When you want to learn to fly, game or simulator is the way to go. But for somebody with a simple interest in getting airborne the complexity of the search can be daunting. I remember spending hours going from one link to the next, ...READ»
