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A young entrepreneur presents a few disruptive strategies to help grow your business. Her message: Stop planning. Its useless
Read More »Kobo Thumbs Its Nose At Apple With An HTML5 E-reader App
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Read More »The Science Behind Dreaming
For centuries people have pondered the meaning of dreams. Early civilizations thought of dreams as a medium between our earthly world and that of the gods.
Read More »In PopCap Games’s Deal With Sony Ericsson, Some Insights Into Android
The gang behind Plants vs. Zombies just found a broad new audience. It's a clever move--reminiscent of the way bigger gaming houses launch titles--but it carries the whiff of Android fragmentation.
Read More »As Atlantis Glides to Its Final Landing, What Comes Next?
With all of the discussion about future U.S.
Read More »Steve Blank On The Broken Relationship Between Investors And VCs
Veteran entrepreneur of Silicon Valley shares his funding stories, what he's learned about the entrepreneur/investor relationship over the years, and the best way to pitch to a venture capitalist. Funding Stories When I was at E.piphany, my last startup, I was negotiating with a company called Infinity Capital at the time
Read More »Strain on the Brain (preview)
In 2007 Nobel laureate James Watson eyed his genome for the very first time. Through more than 50 years of scientific and technological advancement, Watson saw the chemical structure he once helped to unravel now pieced into a personal genetic landscape that lay before him. There was one small stretch of DNA on chromosome 19, however, that he chose to leave under wraps
Read More »Girls Dominate Google’s Science Fair With Projects On Cancer And Asthma Treatment
Google's Internet-based science fair brought in awe-inspiring teenage scientific contributions from 91 countries around the world--with three girls taking home the gold in all age groups.
Read More »Root Capital Makes Money By Investing Where Wall Street Won’t: Poor, Rural Farmers
Investing in sectors that most business people find too risky, this firm is finding that the returns from helping small businesses in the developing world can be more than simply charity. Small money, big change
Read More »Racing to Build the Next Spacecraft
Heres a look at the top four contenders for developing the next spacecraft, how much funding they have received through the program, and how close they are to sending a crewed flight into orbit. After the shuttle Atlantis makes its final flight this summer, NASA will shut down the program responsible for 135 manned space flights since 1981. Now, NASA is turning to commercial companies to develop space-flight capabilities through its Commercial Crew Development program, which has doled out $320 million in funds since 2009.
Read More »"Virtual Cane" Lets Visually Impaired Navigate Via Sonar
A new prototype device allows the visually impaired to more easily walk the streets using sonar-like technology to create an impromptu spatial picture. Blind and visually impaired individuals may soon be walking easier with “virtual canes.” A new device developed by a team affiliated with Israel's Hebrew University allows users to detect all objects within 10 meters for safe navigation. The cane uses sonar-like technology, turning users into virtual batmen and batwomen
Read More »After Spurning Android, HP May Offer Windows 8 Tablets
For Hewlett-Packard's TouchPad tablet, which heads to market on Friday, the company avoided using Android at all costs . Well, actually, at a very specific cost: HP spent $1.2 billion last year to acquire Palm, which helped develop the TouchPad's slick software, WebOS.
Read More »How do electrons become entangled?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Princeton researcher and his international collaborators have used lasers to peek into the complex relationship between a single electron and its environment, a breakthrough that could aid the development of quantum computers.
Read More »Training Secrets From Inside The Googleplex
Think you’ve got training challenges? Try making sure thousands of your sales agents are up-to-date with the ever-changing online ad business
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