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Nissan’s new xStorage battery wants to compete with Tesla’s Powerwall in Europe
This week, Nissan announced that people would be able to place orders for its new xStorage battery, a stationary storage battery for individual homeowners, in September.
The xStorage battery was developed by Nissan's London-based design facility with the help of Eaton, a Dublin-based power management company. Nissan has no plans to sell the battery in the US, instead focusing its efforts on the European market. According to the automaker's...
App of the Year: 5 mobile standouts compete in the GeekWire Awards
We’re living in a mobile world, and some of the top apps for smartphones and tablets are developed right here in the Pacific Northwest. This is your chance to help pick the best of the best. We’re opening up the public voting today for the App of...
Amazon to compete with Fedex, UPS and Alibaba with secret ‘Dragon Boat’ plan, Bloomberg says
Despite Amazon’s dismissal of the speculation that the company plans to open its own global shipping operation and compete with UPS and Fedex, Bloomberg says it has seen documents that show the Web retailer plans to do exactly that. Bloomberg says Amazon has a...
Ex-Microsofties launch app to help weightlifters track workouts, compete with friends
Apps like RunKeeper and Strava have utilized smartphone technology to help runners track their workouts and compete with friends. Now, two entrepreneurs want to implement something similar in the weightlifting world. Eric Wagner and Bryan Alger are the co-founders of Gravitus,...
Flywheel lets taxis replace old hardware with smartphone meter to compete with Uber, Lyft
Taxis in California can now ditch their legacy metering hardware and use smartphone-based technology to calculate fares. Flywheel, the San Francisco-based company which develops an app to let taxi...