Bloomberg Meituan is the kind of Chinese technology company few people outside the country understand. That’s because its services aren’t quite like anything you might find abroad. Meituan has a restaurant review feature sort of like Yelp, but its app also lets you order off the menu from your phone the minute you sit down. You can settle your check ...

Bloomberg Flying cars will be zipping across US skies within the coming decade—at least that’s what Uber Technologies’ CEO Dara Khosrowshahi predicts. “There will be people flying around Dallas, Texas,” Khosrowshahi said at the DLD tech conference in Munich. “I think it’s going to happen within the next ten years.” Back down on the ground, the Uber CEO cited congested ...

Bloomberg After Erin Hiscock’s mother and brother passed away, she resolved to tackle her own weight problem. “I was maybe 310 pounds at my heaviest and severely addicted to sugar,” she says. “Instead of a normal meal, I’d just eat carbs, sugar, nothing nutritious.” Hiscock, a 35-year insurance agent in Virginia, didn’t turn to diet books, Weight Watchers, or even ...