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"Une nouvelle plateforme de financement participatif sera lancée aujourd'hui. Elle ne fait pas appel aux dons pour soutenir la création d'un bar ou le lancement d'un livre en échange de petits cadeaux, comme le fait, par exemple, la plateforme zurichoise WeMakeIt ou l'américaine Indiegogo. Elle ne cherche pas à démocratiser l'accès au capital-risque comme le propose Investiere ou Bee Invested, une plateforme lancée en avril dernier."

"Kutsuplus is a practical intelligent bus whose destination you decide. Kutsuplus offers seamless travel with no worries about parking and takes you from stop to stop within the service area. People going in the same direction at the same time travel together. Book a comfortable minibus ride online or via SMS and save time, money and the environment."

" The municipality wants to ensure that people only occasionally rent out their house whilst away (sharing economy), rather than run a permanent, unregulated hotel (not sharing economy). It has chosen to allow its residents to rent out their homes for up to 60 days per year. Customers are also supposed to pay tourist tax via Airbnb, although its enforcement leaves much to be desired (not least because Airbnb does not want to share its data with the municipality)"

" Seated practically thigh to thigh, these vendors crouch over laptops, scrolling through screen after screen of downloaded music. They are known as téléchargeurs, or downloaders, and they operate as an offline version of iTunes, Spotify and Pandora all rolled into one. They know what their regulars might like, from the latest Jay Z album to the obscurest songs of Malian music pioneers like Ali Farka Touré. Savvy musicians take their new material to Fankélé Diarra Street and press the téléchargeurs to give it a listen and recommend it to their customers. For a small fee - less than a dime a song - the téléchargeurs transfer playlists to memory cards or U.S.B. sticks, or directly onto cellphones. Customers share songs with their friends via short-range Bluetooth signals"

"Kutsuplus is a new kind of on-demand bus service - tailor-made rides without having to change buses or worry about parking. "

""Music streaming, as opposed to ownership, is the future," he said in a phone interview last week. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, total streaming revenue is up from $0.5 billion in 2010 to $1.9 billion in 2014 - and now amounts to more than a quarter of all earnings for the music industry."

"Why shouldn't refugees in Germany be able to live in shared flats (or other normal housing situations) instead of mass accommodation? We thought the same & found a way to make it possible."