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UberX cabs suspended in Seoul

Mar06
by on March 6, 2015 at 9:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Insider, ridesharing

Uber Seoul
Uber announced today that it has suspended its UberX cab service in Seoul, following discussions with government authorities in the South Korean capital. The company has faced trouble running its service in the city since July last year. As in many other markets, Uber’s business model doesn’t sit well with local transport regulations. It attempted to circumvent the issue by offering free rides in the city last week. The decision to halt UberX was taken after the company consulted with Seoul City Transport Division. Interestingly, Uber is providing all taxis in Seoul with free access to its ridesharing platform. This could be…

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Airbnb has open sourced its simple SQL query tool built on Facebook’s Presto tech

Mar06
by on March 6, 2015 at 8:57 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider, Product Launches

Airbnb has open sourced Airpal, the tool it built to help employees get to data they need to use, reports Gigaom. The software is built on the open source Presto SQL engine, which was created by Facebook to speed access up to data stored in Hadoop. Airbnb built Airpal so that staff could quickly access data without having to wait for a data scientist to run a query for them. It allows novices to write SQL queries by giving them a visual interface and previews of the data they’re accessing. If you’re handling a lot of data and want to make…

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Amazon opens a store on Chinese rival Alibaba’s marketplace

Mar06
by on March 6, 2015 at 8:08 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Insider, tmall

Amazon has just opened a store on Tmall, an online marketplace for shoppers in China, owned by the company’s Asian rival Alibaba. It’s selling imported food, shoes, toys and kitchenware in a bid to grow the company’s business overseas. Outside the US, Amazon’s business comes mainly from the UK, Germany and Japan. International sales counted for only 38 percent of the the company’s revenue last year. Amazon already has a Chinese-language shopfront, but hasn’t enjoyed tremendous sales through it. With its new store in China, it will be able to compete in a market that is expected to grow beyond $1 trillion by 2018.…

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Amazon opens a store on Chinese rival Alibaba’s marketplace

Mar06
by on March 6, 2015 at 8:08 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Insider

Amazon has just opened a store on Tmall, an online marketplace for shoppers in China, owned by the company’s Asian rival Alibaba. It’s selling imported food, shoes, toys and kitchenware in a bid to grow the company’s business overseas. Outside the US, Amazon’s business comes mainly from the UK, Germany and Japan. International sales counted for only 38 percent of the the company’s revenue last year. Amazon already has a Chinese-language shopfront, but hasn’t enjoyed tremendous sales through it. With its new store in China, it will be able to compete in a market that is expected to grow beyond $1 trillion by 2018.…

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