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Feed SubscriptionDARPA’s Wonderfully Lowish-Tech Solution To Space Debris: Looking For It
Among the various complex, clever, futuristic solutions to solving the space-junk problem, DARPA's just unveiled a new tool to help with the job that's wonderfully simple. It's a telescope, to look for the stuff.
Read More »PGT: Two new thoughts on handling slow play
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Read More »Rube Goldbergers Syyn Labs Hack Saturday Night Fun With Tuxedos, Charity, And "Chess Boxing"
The League of Extraordinary Nerds takes over saturday night with cultural exploration and charity fund raising. The League of Extraordinary Nerds wants reform the tired bar scene with some cultural infusion and a healthy dose of charity. Syyn Labs, the digital arts company widely known for helping make
Read More »Interviewing Geoffrey Moore: Core Versus Context
This article is Part 5 of an 8 part series.
Read More »Can Facebook Groups Support Its Deals?
Facebook has only seen 50 million Groups created after six months. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called grouping friends "the biggest problem in social networking." This is the secret sauce in Deals
Read More »Electronic cigarettes to be regulated like real cigarettes
FDA wanted to treat them like medical devices, but court shot them down
Read More »Westwood first No. 1 to play in South Korea
Lee Westwood hopes to put on a show in the Ballantine's Championship this week as the first No. 1-ranked golfer to play in South Korea.
Read More »Managing Multiple Companies In the Cloud
I have been in the trenches of both tactical and strategic corporate finance for over 25 years, including being a CFO of a $2-billion company.
Read More »Hiring by Video
Perry Blacher has a knack for finding talent. His only problem is sometimes the best potential employees aren’t located across the street, but across an ocean or two. As the CEO of Covestor , a global mirrored investment firm, Blacher isn’t about to fly candidates to his London or New York offices for an interview if he can help it
Read More »4 Geeked Out Cars for Business
For small business owners , choosing which vehicles you will drive or which cars to add to your commercial fleet can be tricky. On the one hand, you want cars that are comfortable and can accomadate the long hours your sales staff may spend in them, for example
Read More »The New Generation of Cloud Storage Tools
Call it a comedy of laptop errors.
Read More »How to Host a Virtual Event
Hosting an event can easily cost companies thousands, even millions of dollars—and the bills rack up fast.
Read More »Monsanto Will Soon Be Allowed To Police Itself
Monsanto, enemy of organic farmers and anti-GMO advocates alike, will now be allowed to conduct its own environmental studies as part of a two-year USDA experiment. But there is no good that can possibly come of an experiment where the company behind nearly every genetically modified crop in our daily diets is allowed to decide whether its products are causing any environmental harm.
Read More »Sneak Peek: The Robert Rubin Collection at Sotheby’s
On May 13 Sotheby’s New York is auctioning the Robert Rubin Collection of African art, which comprises approximately 50 works of art estimated to sell for $4 million total.
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