These chocolatiers get a dream order they can't ignoreor can they? Eric Heinbockel couldn't believe his good luck. Just a year after launching his chocolate company, Chocomize, with two friends in late 2009, he received an e-mail from a large European luxury retailer
Read More »Tag Archives: usa
Feed SubscriptionFight Credit Card Processing Fees
Start-ups are always looking to increase revenue or save costs. When Sean Harper was running his e-commerce business, he started looking at costs, and zeroed in on how much he was paying his credit card processor
Read More »iPhone 5 Rumor Round-Up: Curvy Screen, World-Phone Chips, Augmented Reality
It looks like the iPhone 5 won't be out until later this year...but there is plenty to talk about already. Here's our summary of the hottest hints on Apple's next big trendsetting device. The iPhone--love it or hate it--has played a huge role in redefining the entire smartphone genre.
Read More »From Metal Factory to Innovator
How one man built his family's small manufacturing plant into the go-to metalworking studio for the world's premier architectural projects. Two decades ago, the A
Read More »New tool for proton spin
How the particles that constitute a proton give rise to is to its rotation, or spin, is an intriguing open question of contemporary particle physics. A technique that could provide some answers has been developed using the worlds only polarized protonproton collider. The work was published by the PHENIX Collaboration, which includes researchers from the RIKEN Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Research Center in Upton, USA.
Read More »iFive: AT&T Confirms Late iPhone 5, Spotify Battles iTunes, U.S. DVD Sales Slide, ISIS Joins Credit Co.s, Airline Streams Vids
1. According to an AT&T insider , Apple has officially notified the huge U.S. cell phone carrier that there will be no iPhone update in June or July.
Read More »Introducing the Maybach by Daimler
Evolution of an automotive masterpiece – exciting, unique, effortlessly superior The heart of automotive luxury beats in the Center of Excellence in Sindelfingen, Germany. It is here at the Manufaktur that each Maybach vehicle is produced according to customers individual ...
Read More »iFive: Nintendo Profits Tank, Lenovo’s Honeycomb Tablet, White iPhone 4 With A5, SpaceX Mars Plans, China’s Investment List
1. Nintendo has released financial data suggesting it's slipping mightily--versus last year, its net sales of $12.4 billion until March 31st are down 29%, and profits have slumped 66%
Read More »Environmental WikiLeaks: Greenpeace Crowdsources Research Of Secret BP Documents
Greenpeace is on a mission to expose major corporations and government agencies involved in shady activities--and it wants your help. Greenpeace is on a mission to expose major corporations and government agencies involved in shady activities--by posting thousands of Freedom of Information Act documents on highly publicized websites. If Greenpeace's tactics work, the organization could change the way companies do business, or at least force them to better hide incriminating documents.
Read More »Forget the Treehuggers: Five Ways to Attract the Less Stereotypical Green Consumer
The New Consumers are here. They're youthful, wired, educated and mostly female--and they’re just as concerned with practical values like price, quality and convenience as they are with do-gooder values like local, organic and fair trade. These shoppers make up 30% of the U.S
Read More »The Secrets to Meeting With VCs
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today
Read More »Marijuana and Maleness
The sex hormones that bathe a fetus in the womb are some of the earliest and most potent determinates of gender differences in brain structure and social behavior. But other chemicals produced by the human body more subtly tweak the neural pathways underlying these distinctions. Endocannabinoids, natural compounds in the brain that excite the same receptors as marijuana, influence gender-specific behaviors, according to a study published in November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
Read More »iFive: RIM PlayBook Pricing, Steve Jobs Summoned to Court, New York Times Paywall Grows, Twitter’s Size, Verizon and Sprint?
1. It's here: The first precise pricing figure for the BlackBerry PlayBook--RIM's first (and last?) big hope in the tablet wars. A 16GB Wi-Fi-only model will cost you $499 in the US and $499 locally in Canada, and it'll be available from a decent list of stores.
Read More »AT&T and T-Mobile: All About the iPhone 4G in 2012?
AT&T's deal to buy T-Mobile USA has already caused plenty of discussion.
Read More »Guess Who’s Buying T-Mobile
AT&T will soon be leapfrogging over Verizon to become the biggest wireless carrier in the United States after announcing today (Sunday) that it will be acquiring T-Mobile USA for $39 billion.
Read More »