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After what seems like an eternity, I've recently started using ride-hailing services again and venturing beyond the 5-block radius around my house. The Uber app worked just as it did when I last opened it - except that the UberPool option was no longer available.
The path to profit requires ditching money losers like self-driving cars and flying taxis, exiting certain markets, and rethinking longstanding features - even ones that customers have grown to love. Farewell UberPool, we'll miss you.
The hot new app for Gen Z launched this week and rocketed to the top of the download charts. The photo-sharing app is called Poparazzi and it's gaining buzz by taking a sledgehammer to ossified social media norms.
A decade ago, Snapchat stole a generation of young users from Facebook by making photos disappear. For Poparazzi, the social media shackle to liberate users from is the selfie. As Insider's Margaux MacColl writes:
The app, created by Alex Ma and his brother Austen, encourages you to become "your friend's poparazzi" instead posting pictures of yourself.
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Rather than a perfectly curated Instagram grid, a user's profile consists of unedited photos that others have taken. Poparazzi also eschews traditional social-media metrics: There's no follower count or likes, only total "views" on a user's photos and the number of emoji reactions to their posts.
So if your kids have made you feel like an out-of-touch dinosaur, now you can flip the script on them and turn them on to the hot new app - if they're not already using it.
Snapshot: Amazon's decompression chamber
There are phone booths, trade show booths, restaurant booths, and now, there are Amazon "zen" booths.
The compact cubicle pictured below is a "mindful practice room" designed to provide Amazon warehouse workers with a private place to relax and meditate during breaks.
The introduction of the zen booths has been anything but peaceful though. Ever since they were spotted by Vice, the booths have been lampooned as"dystopian" coffin-sized "despair closets," by various critics and publications that have noted the famously grueling conditions Amazon warehouse workersendure on the job.
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