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Start-Up Budgeting: Basics & Tools
With an upsurge in the start up world, many entrepreneurs are jumping on the bandwagon without doing due diligence on their proposed business ideas. Their focus, understandably, is selling their product or service, which is seldom enough to create profitable business. Due diligence in building your start up venture is critical, and the first step is to ...
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RIM Loses Market Share – Again?
Stock for RIM (Research In Motion Ltd.) fell to the lowest levels in almost eight years after pushing back the release of their newest BlackBerry product. The company stated that the new generation of Blackberrys, designed to fuel reclamation of the lost market share, would not be released until the latter part of 2012. Further, RIM gave ...
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Social Media Outlets Help Refer Suicidal People to Help Lines
With the increased worries about the rate of suicides in teens and young adults, the tools they use the most of stepped up to help on the prevention front. Facebook and Google have put in place mechanisms that can search for suicidal messages and direct those people to suicide help lines. Facebook took it a ...
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Stop Piracy, or Innovation?
On November 16, 2011 Congress began review of The Protect IP Act (PIPA) is a U.S. Senate bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy and its House counterpart Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Since their introduction in May 2011, the bills have been met with severe backlash, with opposers calling them “innovation killers” and “patently unjust.” On the first day of hearings even Rep. ...
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Engineering Your Trip: Best Travel Apps
With holiday travel season arriving, my friends have been searching my phone for travel related apps. The simple thing, of course, would be to ask me for a list. But since no one – except my editor – asked for a list, I thought it would be best to make one for the benefit of ...
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The Siri-ous Fail
When the announcement of iPhone 4S came, the expected excitement was met with lukewarm annoyance from Apple lovers waiting for the iPhone 5. The potential converts to iPhone held off from buying, but the loyalists spent the extra money, and the time in line, to buy the brand new version of the game changing phone. ...