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Online Shopping Just Got Easier With the Launch of Google’s Commerce Search 3.0

Google 's just improved its Google Commerce Search powers, giving online retailers a richer interface to offer online consumers trying find the right goods. Google says it's "building on the capabilities that have proved useful to" its retail partners, with a new system that will "help create an even more interactive and engaging experience for shoppers and retailers." Google even toots its own horn a little, noting that when sites like BabyAge incorporated Commerce Search it resulted in a 64% increase in site searches--an indicator that customers are spending more time digging through the site, and have a better chance of actually buying products rather than bailing

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Want to Be Our Photo Intern?

Our web team is in search of a photo intern. This is a support role, working with the editors and news team to find, crop, and upload images to the site. The ideal candidate has experience working with illustrators, editing infographics, and can whip up a photo-mosaic in minutes.

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A tale from PGA Tour qualifying school

The PGA Tour is contemplating the radical change of handing out only Nationwide Tour cards at Q-school, in part to make sure promising young players are properly prepared for the big leagues.

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How Fortified Table Salt Could Drastically Reduce Infant Deaths in Developing Nations

Infant mortality in developing countries is depressingly high, with 3.6 million children dying each year in the neonatal period. Unlike many other global health issues, this one is easily fixable--cutting down on deficiencies of micronutrients like folic acid in women of childbearing age could dramatically reduce infant deaths. So last fall, Scientists Without Borders, a platform that crowdsources solutions to scientific problems, set out to work on the issue with a $10,000 challenge that asked entrants to solve the problem of folic acid deficiency in women throughout the developing world with simple, low-cost solutions.

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Behind the Millionaire Crackdown

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Watch your backs, millionaires.

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Succession Stories: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sylvia Wildfire, like many business owners with children, would love to pass her Thousand Oaks, California-based business, OnCallMedic, which supplies emergency medical technicians to weddings and big events like the Grammy Awards, on to her son, Michael.

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Build With a Buyer in Mind

One of the reasons that so many companies are formed in Silicon Valley is that they are all groomed from Day One for sale to another Silicon Valley company.

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RadiumOne CEO on His McDonald’s Rejection, Social Ads, and Do-Not-Track Legislation

The former entrepreneurial prodigy talks with Fast Company about the future of social advertising. At the tender age of 28, high-school dropout turned best selling author Gurbaksh Chahal is now leading a multi-million dollar social ad network. After running three successful businesses, sharing a best-selling book with Oprah , and, most recently, l eading a $21 million funding round , Chahal opened up to Fast Company about his own past, the recipe of successful social ads, and the potential doom of over regulation

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Brazil’s 10 Most Innovative Companies

01 / Azul > > For converting bus riders into frequent fliers. Brazilian-born David Neeleman, founder of Jet Blue, brought the low-cost airline model to his home country and tweaked it to fit its nuances

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Is Apple Obsession Hurting Nokia’s Future?

Dissatisfied that in a provisional ruling a U.S. judge has sided with Apple in a patent case, Nokia has just filed a whole new complaint against Steve Jobs and company. In total, it's now saying Apple abuses 46 Nokia patents

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How ANDE Is Lifting Up Growing Businesses in the Developing World

Tiny startups in developing countries have a savior in microfinancing organizations like Kiva , but what about the small- to medium-sized businesses that don't qualify for microloans? These businesses, commonly called "the missing middle," have between 10 and 300 employees and usually seek between $20,000 and $2 million. They are the backbone of economic growth in developing nations, but are tragically undersupported

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