How Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra can beat the Galaxy S21 Ultra | Digital Trends

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How is Samsung going to surpass the Galaxy S21 Ultra? I ask this in all seriousness, as the 2021 flagship has remained one of my favorite Android phones alongside the Google Pixel 6 Pro. I’m using it again as I write this, and it’s as spectacular and capable as it was when I first reviewed it at the end of January 2021.

The Galaxy S22 Ultra will almost certainly launch alongside other members of the S22 range on February 9, and perhaps more than any other year before, Samsung really has to go all-out to make the new phone markedly better.

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Qualities of a Successful Entrepreneur | The Startup Magazine

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Business Qualities of an Entrepreneur

The business qualities of any successful entrepreneur should be in the first place. It is thanks to them that you can achieve success in business. Let’s look at the five most important ones.

1. Practicality

A synonym for practicality can be called prudence. Successful startup entrepreneurs will invest money only in the business that brings income. That is why really rich people try to dress inconspicuously, do not use provocatively expensive accessories. After all, buying these things will only satisfy whims and will not pay off in any way.

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How a Day of Apple-Picking Led to a $2 Billion Startup on a Mission to Feed the Hungry | Inc.com

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Abhi Ramesh had expected to return with only fresh fruit the first time he went apple-picking with his future wife in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. But he also brought home a business idea.

“There were apples all over the ground,” says Ramesh, a serial entrepreneur who had earlier founded a coding school and an e-commerce startup. “I saw just firsthand how much food goes to waste at the farm level. I was shocked at the time.”

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Google gets hit with a new lawsuit over ‘deceptive’ location tracking | TechCrunch

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Washington DC, Texas, Washington state and Indiana announced the latest lawsuit against Big Tech Monday, alleging that Google deceived users by collecting their location data even when they believed that kind of tracking was disabled.

“Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access,” DC Attorney General Karl Racine said. “The truth is that contrary to Google’s representations it continues to systematically surveil customers and profit from customer data.”

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The US Refuses to Fall in Love With Electric Cars | WIRED

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IN DECEMBER 2021, sales of electric vehicles overtook sales of diesel cars for the first time in Europe, as 176,000 EVs rolled out of car dealerships across the continent. At the same time in China, the country’s automotive industry announced that EV sales for the year had ballooned by 158 percent compared with 2020, as more than 3.5 million vehicles took to the roads.

These sales figures were not a blip. In Europe, EVs made up an estimated 14 percent of all new vehicles sold in 2021, according to the banking and financial services company ING. In China, it was 9 percent.

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3 Cold-Calling Secrets From Sara Blakely, Founder of Spanx | Entrepreneur

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There’s a reason why Spanx founder Sara Blakely can teach us so much about cold calling, and it has nothing to do with how great she is at creating inventions. Before becoming an entrepreneur herself, she sold fax machines in Florida for seven years, where her insight into this specific skill set became invaluable when starting up.

It was her knowledge of cold calling that turned out to be pivotal in landing her first sale of Spanx, as she cold-called the buyer for Neiman Marcus and landed her first large order of Spanx. She also used cold calling to find her patent lawyer and apparel manufacturer, which were both critical to her ultimate success as an entrepreneur.

Here are three specific cold-calling lessons we can glean from her experiences on her entrepreneurial journey.

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No, It’s Not Too Late to Start an E-commerce Business in 2022 | Cool Business Ideas

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If you’ve been searching for ways to make money online, you’ve probably come across a few people telling you about starting an e-commerce business. While it’s a lucrative job that you can do from home to create an additional income stream, you may be thinking it’s a very saturated industry already. Is it too late to start an e-commerce business in 2022?

The answer is no!

As the general population becomes more comfortable with purchasing items online, especially after staying home during the pandemic, now is a great time to get into the e-commerce game. Below are four steps to take to help you get started.

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A film station may be launching in space by 2024 | Mashable

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Space may soon house a full-fledged TV and film studio, thanks to Space Entertainment Enterprise (S.E.E.).

According to The Hollywood Reporter (THR), the company that is co-producing Tom Cruise’s upcoming space movie (which is set to be filmed in space), is intending to launch the studio by 2024, in addition to a streaming studio and sports arena.

The microgravity production broadcast module, named SEE-1, will be fitted to the Axiom Station, a commercial space station being made by Axiom Space and that will be attached to the International Space station prior to orbit.

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Amazon bets you’re tired of just buying clothes off Amazon | CNN

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Amazon has a new venture outside of e-commerce, cloud computing, content streaming, smart devices, Whole Foods, cashier-less technology or anything else you’ve come to associate with one of the most successful companies in American history.

It’s a physical clothing store. Like, you know, a real brick-and-mortar space where you go try on stuff, buy it and then bring it home. An IRL store. Google it if you’ve never been to one.

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