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Springwise New business ideas


Discount seating on empty private jet flights

We wrote about on-demand airline DayJet on two different occasions before it closed its doors a few weeks ago. Now a new Swiss company is taking a different approach to private jet travel by making...

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Tags: transportation
Video dictionary with a wiki touch

Inspired by the way Wikipedia changed the encyclopedia with its online format and user-contributed content, a new digital dictionary hopes to change the way the world articulates and understands the...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: media & publishing
Eco-friendly pop-up spa

No sooner did we cover two mobile bars that recently popped up in Singapore than one of our spotters alerted us to yet another pop-up innovation: a mobile spa that just launched at the Toronto...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: fashion & beauty
Pop-up nightclubs launch in Singapore

Back in 2006 we wrote about the Venue VBOX, which uses shipping containers to construct portable retail stores, and now, from the same Singapore company, comes a similarly modular and transportable...

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Tags: lifestyle & leisure
Hotel helps guests fight jet lag

Back in January we wrote about an effort at the Aéroports de Paris to provide travellers with light-therapy breaks to stave off jet lag during the holiday travel season. At the time we suggested it...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: tourism & travel
Magazine publishing for everyone & every niche

Even as consumers spend more and more time online, they continue to crave the comfort of the printed page. MagCloud, a new self-publishing magazine service from HP Labs, is making the most of these...

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Tags: media & publishing
Eco maps go mobile and open source

Since moving its not-for-profit venture online in 1995, New York-based Green Map System has made online maps of sustainable initiatives accessible to keen greens everywhere. Its selection of...

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Tags: eco & sustainability
Yotel opens its first airside hotel, at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Amsterdam seems to be Europe's testing ground for no-frills chic, pod-like hotels. Last year, we wrote about Qbic, a hotel that uses bedroom-plus-bathroom cubes that can be easily installed and...

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Tags: tourism & travel
Auctioning the rights to popular songs

Music fans can now participate in the music industry as never before, whether by funding and promoting their favourite bands or creating and selling custom mixes—to name just a few of the...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 2 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: entertainment
Camera-bikes broadcast offline life to Flickr, every 60 seconds

As part of a new brand-awareness campaign to promote its corporate spirit, Yahoo recently equipped a fleet of GPS-enabled bicycles with camera phones and sent them out onto the streets of major...

Started in Springwise New business ideas • 3 weeks ago • 0 responses
Tags: marketing & advertising