Taxi medallion to "The Washington Post", medallions were "the best investment in America", but—due to increased competition from app-based car services and transportation network company growth from companies like Uber and Lyft—taxi medallions are now decreasing in price. In 2013, the price of a medallion was $625,000. In 2014, that price had risen to around $700,000. In 2014, a medallion was worth nearly $700,000. The total value of all medallions and assets related to them had a value of $2.5 billion in Chicago in 2013. In 2012, medallion prices ranged from $87,000 to $385,000. In 2015, Chicago's average medallion price was under
Shabbos App Shabbos App The Shabbos App is a proposed Android app that is claimed to enable Orthodox Jews, and Jewish Sabbath-observers, to use a smartphone on the Sabbath. The App was supposed to appear in late 2014. Some argued from the outset that this project was nothing more than an elaborate hoax, or prank, of some kind. The app's developers, YidTec, Inc., initially stated that the application would be released on Google Play on December 1, 2014, and then on November 16 indicated that they were running behind schedule. A team of ten software developers at YidTec, Inc., including Yossi Goldstein,