When Marquis Yachts introduced its Sport Yacht series five years ago, buyers gravitated toward the new big-boat models. With design inside and out by Nuvolari-Lenard, a renowned megayacht design firm, Marquis’ offerings boasted big-boat details that other production craft did not
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For the last 19 years, the Peninsula Beverly Hills has earned both AAA Five-Diamond and Forbes Five-Star distinctions—the longest winning streak of any Southern California hotel. This month, after a year of renovations, the 21-year-old hotel revealed 193 remodeled guest rooms ($625 to $8,000 per night), including 36 suites and ...
Read More »Meridian Audio’s New Stealth M6 Speaker
According to Meridian Audio cofounder Bob Stuart, his company’s newest digital-signal-processing (DSP) loudspeaker, the M6, produces “world-class sound that all but disappears in the room.” The M6 does just that by masterfully combining the English manufacturer’s active amplifier and digital-to-analog-conversion technologies from its top-of-the-line DSP8000 speakers with the composite material ...
Read More »Apple’s Financial Report: What To Expect From Tomorrow’s Quarterly Results Reveal
Apple's share price has dropped significantly in the last couple of weeks. This was possibly due to one analyst downgrading his expectations for Apple based on the assumption that cell phone operators would grow tired of paying the large subsidy the iPhone carries. But it doesn't take into account the different markets outside the U.S.
Read More »How Assignmint Will Change Freelance Journalism
A new startup hopes their integrated freelancer workflow and financials system will change the media industry. New startup Assignmint has an ambitious goal: To change freelance journalism as we know it.
Read More »When Old IP Comes Back From the Dead
Deceased rapper Tupac Shakur came back to the stage via hologram. What does that have to do with your IP strategy? Plenty.
Read More »Beginning A Beautiful, Long-Term Business Relationship
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Read More »Meet Nick Bauta, The Designer-Entrepreneur Driving Providence’s Industrial Renaissance
After a deadly fire, Providence officials enacted strict building codes that virtually dismantled the city's lively arts scene. The task has fallen to a RISD grad to rebuild it, one abandoned warehouse at a time.
Read More »Study: Appendix surgery costs differ around U.S.
Archives of Internal Medicine study found health care cost discrepancies among appendix surgery recipients that ranged from $1,500 to $180,000 to pay for procedure
Read More »Don’t Discount: Here’s Why
Emphasize the virtues of your product or service, rather than the price. It will keep your competitors at bay, and your customers close. As business owners, we are often tempted to discount our product or service, thinking it will somehow win us customers and drive growth.
Read More »Hangover Heaven bus rolls through Las Vegas: What do "patients" think?
Bus began driving on Las Vegas Strip on April 14 to treat vacationers' hangovers
Read More »Land Your First Big Customer: 4 Tips
No track record? No problem. Here's how one fledgling start-up signed up 40 Fortune 500 companies as customers
Read More »How to Create an Extra Hour in Your Day
Don't think it's possible? Try these 10 tools to give yourself a productivity boost. I don't know about you, but I can't function without having a lot on my plate.
Read More »The 5 Biggest Mistakes You’re Making With Work Relationships
A major telecommunications company once commissioned some research to find out which attributes best predicted long-term leadership success.
Read More »Facebook And Microsoft Announce $550 Million Patent Deal
Facebook and Microsoft are partnering up for $550 million patent deal. Earlier this month, Microsoft picked up almost 1,000 patents from AOL, worth a shade over $1 billion, a deal that Facebook was also vying for .
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