Phone
charging services are on the
rise, fueled by our
obsessive need to
keep our batteries full
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What could be worse than heading out for the night, then realising your
Phone battery is down to a 10 percent charge?
A new crop of pay-as-you-use powerbank sharing companies have heeded the call of the dead battery in the wild.
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Over 11 "power-sharing" companies in China have been funded in the past 40 days, according to
Beijing News. Their offerings range from tabletop-based chargers, to powerbanks that you can take for a time, and return to a central station.
A LaiDian power bank-sharing machine in China.
Image: Weibo
One of the companies, Xiaodian,
raised about $50 million in ****** B funding just yesterday.
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