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Daily Deals for Online Business Owners

KillerStartups is launching a new daily deal site, Startups.com , that will cater to Internet entrepreneurs. The site will offer 50 percent to 80 percent off Web apps, tools, e-books, gadgets, and other products geared toward doing business online.

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The Great White iPhone: How Apple Spun A Tech Fail Into A PR Win

"Finally" is the headline on Apple's homepage today announcing the arrival of the white iPhone. It's Apple poking fun at itself for a long, drawn-out techno failure, and indicates how it's spun the affair into incredibly positive PR

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RapidBuyr Offers Daily Deals For The Business World

Move over massages, martinis, and manicures. RapidBuyr wants to sell you printers, pens, and PowerPoint. (Yes, we adore alliteration!) The daily deals moshpit has mostly been a consumer affair so far

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Want That Free Groupon? Innobell Is Here To Help

New add-ons come to the do-stuff-while-chatting app launched by a young Israeli entrepreneur. Innobell , an app from an Israeli tech wunderkind who had to pitch an Army general to score time to work on it , launches four new add-ons today

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Ancestry.com Leads The Race To Digitize Your Family Roots

GENEALOGISTS call it an "aha" moment: You unearth a meaningful family detail -- your great-grandma taught kindergarten and raised beagles or your great-great-great-grandpappy was the youngest of 12 brothers and sisters -- and you're hooked.

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The Avatar’s New Clothes

Los Angeles-based startup Styku is chasing the Holy Grail of the online apparel business: making a virtual fitting room that actually works. How they're overcoming the various challenges of apparel software, including the most vexing problem of all--outfitting virtual breasts

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3 Tips for Building a Valuable Company

My entrepreneurial journey has seen me start and exit four companies, one of which, my research business, was acquired by a public company.

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There Is No Stereotypical Entrepreneur

Since I live in New York and work in digital media I sometimes mistakenly feel like the entrepreneurial community is made up entirely of button-down wearing iPad-carrying 20- or 30-something guys who talk about the latest venture-capital deals, update around the clock through Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn, and just last month or year started some sort of online technology service or app that’s still in beta or stealth mode. If there’s anything the 650 attending the Women Presidents’ Organization annual conference this year in Vancouver make clear, that’s not the whole startup story.

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Hackerspaces: Hubs For Tech-Minded Do-Gooders?

Following the recent disaster in Japan, the Tokyo Hackerspace --an open community space where hackers get together to play with hardware (among other things)--channeled its hive mind not into its usual playing with lasers and forgetting to shower, but rather into helping the country recover from earthquake and nuclear-related woes. The Tokyo Hackerspace's most high-profile project is its NETRAD geiger shield, an open-source geiger counter shield that detects local radiation levels. Eventually, the hackerspace hopes to expand its sensor network to the Fukushima region

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iFive: Apple Buys iCloud.com, Yahoo Sells Delicious, Panasonic Slashes Workforce, TomTom Says Sorry, Nokia’s Tablet Plans

1. Hot rumors are circulating this morning that Apple has bought the domain name iCloud.com from network cloud storage firm Xcerion in Sweden. Inside sources say Xcerion sold the name to Apple for about $4.5 million--and it's rebranded its system to CloudMe.

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Philadelphia Launches Anti-Corruption iPhone App

Philadelphia residents have a new weapon for fighting municipal corruption: An iPhone app that lets them send photos and video of money-wasting city employees directly to the controller's office. One crusading Philadelphia politician is using iPhones to fight corruption and fraud. City Controller Alan Butkovitz announced the launch of Philly Watchdog , an anti-corruption iPhone application, on April 19

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SCOTUS Backs ATT: Everyone Loses

There's pro-business and then there's pro-oligarchy. Our current Supreme Court, I believe, has crossed that line.

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