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Feed SubscriptionFlab fest: 8 most shocking restaurant dishes
You won't believe the fat-and-calorie-bombs restaurant chains keep serving up
Read More »Bill Gates calls for reinvention of toilet: Why?
Better sanitation would go long way toward reducing illness and death associated with poor sanitation, billionaire's foundation says
Read More »A Better Way of Conducting Layoffs
No company owner ever wants to conduct a layoff.
Read More »Brooke Mueller heads to Mexico for "extreme" rehab: What’s that?
Charlie Sheen's ex to enter seven-day inpatient program to "rewire" her brain to break free from addiction
Read More »Business Owners Fear Being Unable to Retire
But one expert says small business owners keep working "because they love what they are doing and don't see the point of retiring." Small business owners’ biggest fear? Not having the money to retire, says a new study.
Read More »Scribd Debuts Float, A Netflix-Style Competitor To Pulse, Flipboard, Instapaper
Today, document-sharing service Scribd, the world's largest social publishing site with more than 75 million monthly readers, launched Float, an iPhone and web content-reading app that's taking aim at the likes of Pulse, Flipboard, and Instapaper. Like those popular apps, Float enables users to read content from a varity of sources--such as Float's 150 publishing partners, which include AP, Scientific America, and yes, Fast Company--and access the content in one centralized reading platform.
Read More »How to Reward Great Ideas
Your employees may never say no to a bonus, but that doesn't mean it's the ideal way to credit their work. Examples from Foursquare and other innovative companies show how to make your rewards as creative as the ideas they're rewarding. Projet Cr
Read More »Barry Diller, IAC Launch Proust, A Social Network For Nostalgic Seniors
Most social networks are aimed at the young. Not so for Proust.com, a memory-sharing service that collects remembrances of things past.
Read More »The $720 House That’s Built In A Week And Lasts Two Decades
India's Tata Group--known as the maker of the world's cheapest car--is setting its sights on the world's cheapest home, with a $720 flatpack house that can be constructed in a week. The world's cheapest car is manufactured by the Tata Group. So is the cheapest water filter
Read More »Apple News Roundup: Apple’s Earnings Call, OS X Lion Imminent, New Macs And Mac Sales, Google’s Schmidt Lashes Out
Today's Earnings Call Later today Apple will reveal its most recent quarterly finances, and the industry is aquiver with anticipation. Speculation on the stock markets has seen Apple's price soar over recent days. It's all with the expectation that having finally solved its iPad 2 supply chain issues, and boosted by iPhone sales on Verizon as well as improving Mac sales, Apple may post highly promising revenues.
Read More »Passive smoking tied to hearing loss in teens
Surprising new study reveals one more health danger associated with exposure to tobacco smoke
Read More »Benefits of NAS and How to Set One Up
Network attached storage devices are gaining popularity as a way of sharing files among multiple computers.
Read More »Dementia tied to 7 "modifiable" risk factors: What are they?
Millions of cases of Alzheimer's disease could be avoided by taking steps to curb seven risk factors tied to dementia
Read More »Video: New, less-invasive Epilepsy treatment promising
A new, less-invasive procedure could change how epilepsy is treated in many patients, particularly kids. Dr.
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