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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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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?
Read More »Beauty and the Beasts: The Sight of a Pretty Woman Can Make Men Crave War
Show a man a picture of an attractive woman, and he might play riskier blackjack. With a real-life pretty woman watching, he might cross traffic against a red light
Read More »Apple Goes To China
This week Apple's COO and acting CEO Tim Cook was apparently spotted sauntering into the Beijing offices of China Mobile , the world's largest cellphone network, with 611 million subscribers (that's almost twice the number of people living in the U.S. ). As a result, analyst Brian White at Ticondera Securities suggested that Apple's poised to launch an iPhone whose price would appeal to the average Chinese smartphone user
Read More »As the World Reconsiders Nuclear Energy, the U.S. Remains Committed to Its Expansion
Dear EarthTalk: Radioactive rain recently fell in Massachusetts, likely due to Japan’s nuclear mess. Given the threats of radiation, wouldn’t it be madness now to continue with nuclear power
Read More »Winklevoss Vs. Facebook Again, Twitter In-Stream Ads, Google’s AdWords Go Behavioral, China’s Firewall Gap, Skype Stock Clause
The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech world--starting early in the morning and updated all day. 1. The Winklevoss twins are now pressing ahead with their legal battle against Facebook not in the Supreme Court, but in the federal court in Boston.
Read More »Selling to Big-Box Retailers
Do you ever wonder how all those products end up on the shelves of your favorite retailer? Here are some case studies of small businesses who cracked the code.
Read More »Go to Landfill, Find a Dinosaur Footprint!
Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D.
Read More »More Dangerous Than Nuclear Power: The Floods Caused by Aging Dams [Video]
As the U.S. and China endure record-breaking floods this spring, there is a risk that is being overlooked amidst the inundated towns, evacuations and rising waters.
Read More »Pulp, Non-Fiction: On The British Library’s Book-Digitizing Deal With Google
The British Library is making 250,000 texts available through Google's Books system, which is an admirable way to make historic books useful to the world again. Could this actually help shape the future of publishing? Last week the British Library was lauded for its impressive (and graphically extremely polished) effort at bringing 60,000 digital copies of historic books to the general public as a free iPad app.
Read More »Incredible Find in Temple Museum, Harrowing Rescue on Crumbly Mudstone
Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D. Jackson and David J
Read More »This Week In Bots: Robochefs, Killer Toy Drones, Teacherbots, And More
As Stephen Hawking once said: "Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world." So what developments in robotics happened this week? Robot breakfast We've seen research roboticists perform various odd tricks with their robots, but this one takes the pancake
Read More »MSU China Paleontology Expedition–New season starts with division of egg duties, petrified trees, soybean Popsicles
Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D. Jackson and David J. Varricchio, professors in the Department of Earth Sciences, Dinosaur Paleontology at Montana State University and Jin Xingsheng, paleontologist and Vice Director of the Zhejiang Natural History Museum in Hangzhou, China
Read More »Human milk from cows? Scientists make it happen
Scientists in China clone cows to produce milk that contains human antibodies and proteins
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