Scott Piercy squandered a three-stroke lead, then dodged more trouble down the stretch before making a 7-foot par putt on the final hole Sunday to win the Reno-Tahoe Open by one stroke.
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India is already known as one of the world's IT powerhouses. Angela Saini, author of the new Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World, believes the country is also becoming one of the world's hubs for innovation and scientific ingenuity. Over the past few years, BRIC (Brazil-Russia-India-China) has become a buzzword of sorts for technology- and finance-watchers.
Read More »Mobile Apps That Reward Impoverished Students With Food, Medicine
In exchange for taking small actions that might break the cycle of poverty--like going to school--mPowering's users earn points that can be exchanged for important goods. The company was founded by veterans of Apple and Salesforce.com
Read More »7% Of Arab Bloggers Have Been Arrested: Harvard Survey
According to a new Harvard University survey that was partially funded by the State Department, 7% of Arab bloggers have been arrested or detained over the past year while 30% have been threatened. Seven percent of Middle Eastern bloggers were arrested and detained in the past year--and nearly 30% were personally threatened, according to a new Harvard University survey
Read More »Bettencourt tries to defend at Reno-Tahoe Open
For the first time in its 13-year history, the Reno-Tahoe Open will be played this week the way Jack Nicklaus originally designed the course at Montreux Golf & Country Club and defending champ Matt Bettencourt says it should make for an exciting finish on the 616-yard, par-5 18th.
Read More »Chew on This: More Mastication Cuts Calorie Intake by 12 Percent
About a century ago, a new craze gripped the country's health conscious: mastication.
Read More »The Robotic Nurse That Can Pick You Up
Lifting a person is a lot of work. But not if you're a friendly Japanese robot designed to help care for the elderly.
Read More »Portrait of an Incubated Summer
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Read More »What It’s Like…to Wait Out an Interminable Non-compete
After Hotels.com founder Bob Diener sold to IAC in 2003, he went to kite-surf camp in Costa Rica.
Read More »Anantara’s Elephant Polo Package
The Anantara Hua Hin Resort & Spa in Thailand provides a rare opportunity to see a glimpse of the country’s much-heralded elephant polo matches. The hotel’s first
Read More »Japanese rice to be tested for radioactive cesium
By Yuko Takeo TOKYO (Reuters) - More than a dozen regional governments in Japan will conduct tests to determine whether locally grown rice contains too much radioactive cesium, farm ministry officials said on Monday, as food safety worries spill into the country's traditional staple.
Read More »Inc.com Turns 15
15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com On a warm midsummer day in 1996, a group of four editors huddled around a computer in a Boston office. Matthew Berk, a webmaster, "hit a button and launched the site, Inc.com," explains Bob LaPointe, Inc.'s current president, who was at the time a vice president of Inc
Read More »10 Tips on Hiring for Creativity
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Read More »Beyond Walmart: How The California FreshWorks Fund Aims To Feed The Food Deserts Of California
The new fund is helping supermarkets open in poor neighborhoods, funding farmer's markets in others, and even offering money for innovative food solutions that no one has thought of yet. Walmart recently announced a plan to bring hundreds of stores to fresh-food-starved "food deserts" across the U.S., but the just-announced California FreshWorks Fund has a more localized--though still ambitious--goal: to bring healthy food to underserved communities and to galvanize local economies in the process. We had the chance to talk to NCB Capital Impact, the national community development financial institution that's administering the fund, about who gets the cash and why
Read More »The ‘Teach for America’ for Entrepreneurs?
Andrew Yang, through Venture for America, wants to send an army of new college grads out to start-ups in cities nationwide and help resuscitate their faltering economies. Andrew Yang believes entrepreneurs can help save cities, especially those whose economies have been ravaged by the recession.
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