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New airline BackpackersXpress is slated for launch June 2004, and is going after the backpacking party crowd headed to and from Australia . Innovation in the air is booming!
Springwise suspects there's more room for baby megastores than the current seven buybuyBABYs in NY, MD and NJ.
Playing the girlie and cuteness cards like few others in the EU or US have done so far, Hero's affordable-yet-cool bikes from India could attract a cult following in trendy and flat cities. Good import/export opportunity.
German discount supermarket chain Aldi is about to start selling genuine art at supermarket prices.
More on personalised stamps, including a special yuletide version, just in time for Christmas.
Pimpjuice, Liquid Ice and Def Con 3: just three examples of rap stars entering the food & beverage market.
By introducing Laudamotion in Vienna, fabled ex-Formula One driver and serial entrepreneur Niki Lauda speeds up the expansion of 1 euro car rental.
An example of smart, integrated online/offline thinking from one of Springwise's favorite magazines, Business 2.0.
Staff and students at Princeton, Harvard and MIT are embracing car-sharing venture Zip Cars.
Indiana University is offering its students a very current course. The subject? Reality TV.
Innovative micro-selling methods continue to reap benefits in parts of the world where purchasing power is modest. Three examples: phone ladies, a smart bus, and Smart Buddies.
Straight from London: cab drivers who double as brand ambassadors and the world's widest billboard, that responds if you wave at it.