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Feed SubscriptionFoursquare Wants You To Check In To A Radiohead Concert, Not Just The Garden
Check-ins on Foursquare answer one central question: Where are you right now? But they provide little explanation of what you're doing there
Read More »Kids Don’t Read The Bible Any More
Lady Gaga Comes Out! Gwyneth Goes Topless! (Fwd: Photos.) Why do we fall for these and other trick headlines and email subjects over and over again? Click and read through this story for the answers you've been looking for! Made you look! You're not alone.
Read More »How One Woman Is Using The Media To Expose Corruption In Guatemala
Sylvia Gereda, a founder of El Periodico, the first independent newspaper in Guatemala, is making sure her country has the benefit of a free and vigorous press. We heard Gereda speak this past weekend at the Aspen Global Leadership Summit
Read More »For The First Time, Developing Countries Spending The Most On Renewables
Spending on renewable energy is at an all-time high around the world, and in some of the poorest places on Earth, it may mean leapfrogging over dirty power sources in favor of clean ones. That's it folks
Read More »Woman Fired for Having Gray Hair
A Houston woman is suing her former employer, claiming the company fired her for refusing to hide her age. A 52-year-old Houston woman has claimed she was fired from her job over her refusal to dye her gray hair. Sandra Rawline, an escrow officer and branch manager at Capital Title of Texas, went gray in her early 20s
Read More »Delicious Relaunch, Google Says Sorry, Tablets Selling Well, Apple Partner Stores Due In China
Delicious social bookmarker to be refreshed, Google says sorry for Google+ spam attack, and the whot-selling tablet market.
Read More »Time Tracking for Productivity
As entrepreneurs, we often read and hear about the importance of periodically tracking our activities for a few days to determine where we are spending out time, and if it’s being used effectively. Although there is a high awareness level around this activity, I see quite a bit of resistance about actually doing it.
Read More »A New Approach to Employee Incentives
Traditional Employee Incentive Plans have rewarded employees for a job well done; however, many companies are taking a new approach to incentives. The new incentive plans are aimed at achieving specific company goals such as cost savings, going green or promoting healthy behaviors.
Read More »A New Approach to Employee Incentives
Traditional Employee Incentive Plans have rewarded employees for a job well done; however, many companies are taking a new approach to incentives. The new incentive plans are aimed at achieving specific company goals such as cost savings, going green or promoting healthy behaviors.
Read More »The New Guard of Direct Selling
Move over, Mary Kay. There's a new generation of multi-level marketing whizzes out there hawking to neighbors and friendsand experiencing hyper-fast revenue growth
Read More »Marketers: Why You, Too, Should Be Excited About Facebook Video Calling
The tech world and beyond gathered yesterday for another big Facebook platform announcement. The social network announced three major new features: group chat, a new chat design, and video calling with Skype. More information on the features can be found on Facebook's blog
Read More »The Finer Etiquette Points Of Now-Ubiquitous Video Chat
Suddenly, video chat is basically inescapable, if not always necessary. Very soon, "I don't have a camera" won't fly, and some of us will have to actually stay seated during conference calls. A few days ago, Facebook broke its text-and-photo format wide open and launched instant Skype video calling for Facebook friends .
Read More »China’s Return To The Silk Road
Photographs by Adam Dean and Susetta Bozzi China is reclaiming its place as the world's megabazaar, with the city of Yiwu as its one-stop shop for traders from the Muslim world. THE megamall is bustling with shoppers at noon when two Pakistani men -- dark-skinned with black beards, wearing white skullcaps and the traditional salwar kameez of the subcontinent -- drop their bags near a third-floor sporting-goods shop. They remove their leather sandals, place their safari vests on the floor, and prostrate themselves toward Mecca, thousands of miles away
Read More »Breach Of The Week: The Simple Tech Behind The U.K.’s Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal
British journalism made headlines this week for all the wrong reasons, namely hacking. Tabloid paper News Of The World, which broke into dozens of voicemail accounts of prominent or newsworthy public figures in pursuit of scurrilous dirt, most recently crossed the line again by hacking into--and even deleting--voicemail messages of a murder victim.
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