Wikets, backed by Battery Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, takes the affiliate fees it gets for people purchasing via its links and turns those into rewards for top recommenders.
Boeing has backed the battery used in the Dreamliner after Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways said they changed a number of them in the past few months.
The battery and car manufacturer, backed by United States billionaire Warren Buffett, plans to cut the workforce at the sales unit to 800 from 2, 600, according to a post from an unidentified laid-off employee on the Weibo.com microblogging site.