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Shake It Up

Pepper your table with these dispensers.

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Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Flying Food Group

Flying Food Group has seen steady growth since Sue Ling Gin founded the company in 1983 to bring a higher quality of food service to commercial airlines. As applications for the 2011 Inc

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Your Business Card Is A Billboard For Your Brand–What Does Yours Say?

If a brand can describe its core values and philosophy on its business card without a detailed description, the brand becomes a full representation of its vision. I heard a story that a few years ago Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea , happened to drive past one of his stores.

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Recyclebank Crowdsources Its Business Plan To An Elite Group Of Social Entrepreneurs

At an annual gathering of budding socially conscious businesspeople the money-for-good-deeds company held a competition to find the best path toward massive growth. For a company that wants to quickly grow its business from 2 million users to 10 million, there are a few obvious steps to take: consultants, marketing, focus groups. One less obvious step is the one Recyclebank --the company that offers redeemable rewards for recycling and other good behavior--took in its quest to grow: hold a competition of young social entrepreneurs to see who could come up with the best idea.

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HP: TouchPad’s WebOS Threatens Android, Apple iOS

Richard Kerris, the former Apple exec, is gliding through his presentation of HP's TouchPad. As the current VP of worldwide developer relations for WebOS, the slick software giving life to HP's latest mobile devices, Kerris is giddily running through the tablet's bells and whistles: the design, the partnerships, the apps, the engineering. But suddenly our discussion is interrupted by the sound of woodwinds, dancing up the scale

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The Rise Of Shared Ownership And The Fall Of Business As Usual

A new model in Cleveland--in which workers own companies that are supported by the city's big businesses--has the potential to change the economics of the city and its workers. There are two things in which I believe strongly: that business is at the root of our economic challenges and that business is at the heart of the solution to those challenges

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06.27.2011 | Inc.com Daily

Foursquare raises $50 million, Skype's "evil" investors, the Chinese Twitter, ROI on social media and more. Foursquare takes the 'check.' Just a few days after Foursquare announced its partnership with American Express, The New York Times is reporting that they've raised another $50 million in funding. A shady move by Skype investors?

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Britain dominates world rankings

Britain occupies the top three spots in the world rankings for the first time in their 25-year history after Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland rose to third following his triumph at the U.S. Open.

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