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It rhymes with “Dap Pup.”

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Following word of an impending Amazon Books opening in Chicago, area bookstores sent out a joint statement touting the benefits of independents and warning of the negative impact Amazon has on community businesses.

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Half of the electric vehicles rolling emissions-free on the world’s roads are not from who many would think they are. “The Renault-Nissan Alliance, the world’s leader in zero-emissions mobility, has sold its 350,000th electric vehicle since December 2010 when the Nissan LEAF went on sale,” the Renault-Nissan Alliance said today in an emailed statement, continuing that “the Alliance today accounts for half of the EVs sold worldwide.”  I know, it’s quite a surprise.

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The news that Spanish telecoms giant Telefónica is gearing up to launch a platform that will “let clients know what data Internet firms have, so the client can decide what to do with them,” can be read as a move by the telco to get a leg up on the likes of Amazon, Facebook, and Google–which have the edge in the data trade. It’s just one event in a flurry of activity as companies race to harness data owned by others to enable more contextually relevant and effective advertising–thus enabling brands and marketers to communicate with consumers in a way that produces positive results and deepens engagement.

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Here’s how a full-time software developer at Apple started her own geek chic apparel side project.

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The DEA is planning to place the chemicals present in the ancient plant called kratom on the Schedule 1 Controlled Substances List at the end of this month. If that plan goes through, kratom will take a spot alongside drugs like heroin, MDMA and LSD—substances labeled as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Millions of people who drink a tea made from its leaves for a variety of reasons—from pain relief to depression—will abruptly lose a remedy they’ve come to rely on. And all of this is happening on an accelerated timeline that has those closest to the issue wondering how questions of efficacy and marginal evidence turned into an emergency drug scheduling with few if any precedents.

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The DEA is planning to place the chemicals present in the ancient plant called kratom on the Schedule 1 Controlled Substances List at the end of this month. If that plan goes through, kratom will take a spot alongside drugs like heroin, MDMA and LSD—substances labeled as having “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” Millions of people who drink a tea made from its leaves for a variety of reasons—from pain relief to depression—will abruptly lose a remedy they’ve come to rely on. And all of this is happening on an accelerated timeline that has those closest to the issue wondering how questions of efficacy and marginal evidence turned into an emergency drug scheduling with few if any precedents.

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