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Feed SubscriptionMap: The Electric-Car-Charging Hot Spots Of America
A map of all the country's charging stations shows the easiest places to own an EV, and the places where no one seems to care. For electric cars to bloom, there needs to be a place to plug them in.
Read More »iFive: Amazon Chokes On Gaga, Apple Defends Coders, Twitter Buys TweetDeck, Apple Buys Patents, Barnes & Noble’s Cheap E-Reader
This word cloud is the full text of Apple Legal's response to Lodsys (see item 2 below). Subtly and impressively Apple's using its might by referencing its own name more often than any other word. 1
Read More »Rapture Proves False For Honeybees, Too–Not Harold Camping’s Fault
Good news: Bee deaths aren't getting worse. Bad news: Bees are still dying at an alarming rate
Read More »Early Entrepreneur Tips I Didn’t Believe Were True (But Now Know Better)
Before I launched FamiliesGo! I spent the better part of a year talking to people, reading articles and blogs, and taking classes on starting and running a business. I heard a lot of the same advice over and over
Read More »Office Bleepster: A Cool Excuse for an iPad
Did you ever wonder what you and your childhood friends would be when you grew up? Could I have predicted that my rebellious attitude would lead me to form my own company ? Or what about my friend, Paul Brooks
Read More »EnergySolutions Dismantles Zion Nuclear Reactor In A First-Of-Its-Kind Transfer
Illustration by Bryan Christie Design As we all have seen, nuclear power is a dangerous business. Even tearing down a plant is no easy feat
Read More »Start Up To Get Hired Up
Unemployed and can't get arrested? You're not alone in this economy. In fact, millions are in the same boat
Read More »Vying for the No. 1 Spot
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Read More »How Jack Dorsey’s Square Is Accidentally Disrupting The Entire Payments Industry
Dorsey and Square COO Keith Rabois talk to Fast Company about their unintentional, design-driven revolution, what it means for the cash register space, the deals space, and the future of buying ... everything
Read More »Amazon’s $0.99 Gaga Album Is Opening Salvo In Cloud War With Apple
Lady Gaga is hot property in terms of brand promotion, meaning Amazon's pulled off a huge coup: It's offering her new album for just $0.99. As part of the deal, you get free access to 20GB of Amazon's new (unlicensed?) cloud music locker--a service that normally costs $20 per year
Read More »Reclaim Your Life, One Experience At A Time
From work to play, how can someone get the most out of what they do? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Flow (1990) by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
Read More »This Is What Happens When A Country Ditches Nuclear Power
Japan's Fukushima disaster did more than just ravage the surrounding area with radiation; it also freaked out every other country that relies on nuclear power. Germany's reaction was perhaps the strongest--the country is now working without three quarters (16 GW) of its nuclear power while plants undergo safety reviews (some plants are offline for maintenance outages). How is the country faring
Read More »Why You Should Attend Conferences
You wouldn't want to miss Michael Arrington publicly needling his AOL bosses Tim Armstrong and Arianna Huffington. "Do you see acquiring more content companies like TechCrunch and HuffPo?" Michael Arrington pointedly asked his boss-and-AOL chief Tim Armstrong earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the annual tech conference and start-up competition put on in New York by the site Arrington founded and co-edits. There was an uncomfortable silence
Read More »Those Facebookphones Are Now Foursquarephones Too
INQ just revealed that its so-called Facebookphone is getting a location-based services layer supplied through Foursquare , with the check-in game deeply embedded in the OS. This move adds all sorts of additional powers to the phone without requiring running an app, and it's a real coup for Foursquare.
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