If there’s one thing that Best Buy does well — and often — it’s having large sales, and this weekend’s Best Buy three-day sale is characteristically epic. There’s an enormous variety of discounted products, including TVs, laptops, mobile gadgets, appliances, smart home gear and games. But today — Sunday, May 9 — is the last …
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Bird designs new scooter to fend off vandals
Electric scooters have been found hanging in trees, thrown in lakes, hotwired and stripped. When Scoot first launched its scooters in San Francisco in 2018, one of the biggest issues it said it faced was theft and vandalism. No wonder it would get to work building a tougher model to resist such abuse. Scoot, now owned by Bird, introduced a …
Read More »Scooter app wars begin, and Lime isn’t happy about it
A small battle is brewing in the scooter world. It involves an app called Scooter Map, which its developer said was created to help people find scooters from all companies grouped together in one app. Problem is, one of the world’s largest rental scooter companies doesn’t like it. Lime sent Victor Pontis, Scooter Map’s developer, a cease-and-desist letter last April. …
Read More »Scooter hit
Electric scooters have been on the streets in Chicago for just three weeks, and they already appear to be causing a disruption. In one incident, a cyclist ended up in the emergency room trauma unit after being hit head-on by a scooter rider. Allyson Medeiros was riding his bike home from work in the city’s Wicker Park neighborhood at around …
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