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Weight Watchers made Erin Baker's business almost overnight, then nearly destroyed it even faster. In 1994 , Erin Baker, the founder and owner of Erin Baker's Wholesome Baked Goods, began making healthy breakfast cookies

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Micro-finance is terrific in concept. All it's missing is a winning platform.

Will Apple pull the old chip switcheroo again, and embrace ARM CPUs on its Macs instead of Intel silicon? You bet it might, say new rumors , because it could mean your MacBook lasts pretty much all day on a charge. Only a handful of years ago, Apple abandoned its long relationship with IBM and the PowerPC line of processors for shiny new Intel silicon.

Christina Norman told the audience at our Innovation Uncensored event last week how she was visibly unsure about joining OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network as its CEO. Even a star-powered, deeply funded network is a lot like a small startup, full of twists and turns. In the latest twist a week later, Norman herself has been let go.

IBM has announced the 50 recipients of its “Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Awards” and $10,000 grants for designing classes geared toward the technologies, markets, and applications in which IBM has a vested interest. Including one particularly gnarly Chicago transit hub. On Thursday, technology giant IBM announced the 50 recipients of its inaugural “ Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Awards ,” in essence a $10,000 grant for designing classes geared toward the technologies, markets, and applications in which IBM has a vested interest--urban transportation and health care apps, for example.

Despite the ongoing rush of alternative-fuel tech, the gasoline engine's having a moment thanks to advances from Jaguar and the Department of Energy. Jaguar CX75 million-dollar hybrid Last year Jaguar teased an incredible concept car, the CX75, that had an electric engine in each wheel and a pair of high-performance gas turbines in its truck to provide the electrical power

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Two prominent advisers to the Joint Chiefs of Staff think adopting social and environmental change is the best path to maintaining America's global hegemony.

Photographs Jason Madara Eight Sparks of Inspiration. .green{ color:rgb(120,180,26); font-weight:bold; } AS A GLOBE-TROTTING principal designer at architecture giant Gensler, Steve Weindel is not unfamiliar with the drudgery of air travel

If you're into technology that can stroll convincingly like a human, or creep, roll, climb, spy, and even deliver drinks with uncanny mechanical smoothness, then you've come to the right place. In our second installment of This Week In Bots we share tiny flying drones, amazing magnetic climbing spy machines...and a friendly NASA thespian robot

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The Russian-born industrialist billionaire, who made his fortune in chemical and natural resource companies after the fall of the Soviet Union, just bought Warner Music Group, the record label that manages Cher, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Waka Flocka Flame. Access Industries will acquire Warner Music Group , for $3.3 billion in cash, it was announced today.

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