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Traditional retail sales steady despite e-commerce

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That is consistent with a recent finding that, between 2007 and 2017, there was no significant reduction in the amount of travel in connection with purchasing goods and services. books vs. gasoline). Indeed, it is quite likely that it has, because certain classes of goods and services are more amenable to e-commerce than others (e.g.,

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Tesla welcomes Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to Board of Directors

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The service he built with his co-founders transformed the hospitality industry, allowing travelers seeking local experiences to book homes in nearly every country around the world. Since the 2007 inception in his San Francisco living room, Airbnb has enabled mutual trust for over 4M hosts to share their homes.”

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Ford Teases Mustang Update, Possible California Special Trim

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Of course, messing with illumination is one of the oldest tricks in the book to wring more information out of a teaser shot, a tack automakers know all too well. A few simple adjustments to the photo’s brightness characteristics reveal there could be a GT/CS trim in the pipeline for next year.

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China Motor Vehicle Parc Rises to More Than 176.5M Units

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The data points show the vehicles/1,000 people for different countries in 1996 and 2007. The US has about 844 vehicles per 1,000 people (in 2007), according to Edition 28 of the Transportation Energy Data Book (TEDB), published by the US Department of Energy. Source: TEDB. Click to enlarge.

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This Startup’s AI Tool Makes Moving Day Easier

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When he entered Virginia Tech in 2007 to study computer engineering, he discovered his roommate had also been doing freelance Web development. A book about running a startup Rattner wrote a book about his journey as a startup founder called Grow Up Fast , which he self-published last year.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. The invention was used by the U.S. military during the war, and the company revisited the idea immediately after. inch floppy at Shugart Associates, developed in the 1980s.

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Worldwatch Institute: global biofuel production fell in 2012 for first time since 2000

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Worldwide, biodiesel production grew at an average annual rate of 17% from 2007 through 2012, although the rate of growth slowed considerably. Seventy-six states, provinces, or countries had such mandates on the books in 2012, up from 72 the previous year. billion of this was in industrial nations and $1.2 billion in developing ones.

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