Professional basketball is run by smart businesspeople. So why do they think they're exempt from the law of supply and demand? The NBA lockout came about because the league won’t admit that it has the same problem as football, hockey and baseball: Too many teams for the customer base to support
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Feed SubscriptionCan The Bump Cube Connect Merchants And Consumers (While The Company Collides With Cash)?
What's the future of Bump? The popular iPhone and Android app , which enables users to share media simply by "bumping" smartphones together, recently hit 63 million downloads. It's likely one of the few social networks that's actually social, requiring physical interaction to work in most cases, with users sharing everything from contacts to apps to music to pictures (close to 2 million photos are bumped over the network per day)
Read More »Book your own cruise excursions for family fun
Booking your own cruise excursion is about doing what you want when you want, away from the crowds. It's the luxury of enjoying where you are without the stress of finding your own way in unfamiliar environs.
Read More »Kiva City: Using Microloans To Revitalize Small Businesses In Struggling American Cities
Building off its incredible success funding entrepreneurs in the developing world, the microloan company has turned its eye toward America, where it is giving loans in cities like New Orleans and Detroit. Microfinance platform Kiva has proven many times over that people are willing to give $25 microloans to entrepreneurs in developing countries .
Read More »Management Maxims From Kim Kardashian, Communications Genius
Kim Kardashian knows how to stay on message, to amplify that message through partners, and to make everything look beautiful. Here are 10 lessons from her communications juggernaut that managers should adopt to make their initiatives succeed
Read More »Marketing Tips From Old Spice
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Read More »Why You Should Focus on Generation Y
A new report says Millennials like to spend money, and lots of it.
Read More »This Week In Bots: Stinky Bots, Lovable Bots, Biting Bots, Crashing Bots, And More
What's been happening this week in the world of robotics?
Read More »Facebook To Launch New Photo App, AirBnB Faces Couch-Crashing Competitor, And More…
The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day. Facebook's New Photo Sharing App The new standalone app will reportedly challenge the likes of
Read More »France,Monaco|Antibes,Cannes,Nice,Monaco: VICTORIA DEL MAR offers an amazing deal this summer – save €15,000 per week!
Charter this luxury elegant crewed motor yacht this summer and save €15,000 per week!
Read More »Kiva Powers Up Web Commerce With New Bot-On-Bot Action
These amazing bro-bots work in pairs and in three dimensions to vastly improve efficiency and organization--without incessant high-fiving! Watch a time-lapse video of them moving Diapers.com's entire stock to a new location in 36 hours flat! With new upgrades, Kiva Systems robots, the productivity-boosting, pick-and-pull helpers at the warehouses of Diapers.com, Walgreens, Gilt Groupe , and many others, are working in pairs--and in all three dimensions. And they're answering a huge new e-commerce demand
Read More »The Gas Engine Is Not Dead Yet, Thanks To Diesel, Jaguar
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
Read More »Introducing the Maybach by Daimler
Evolution of an automotive masterpiece – exciting, unique, effortlessly superior The heart of automotive luxury beats in the Center of Excellence in Sindelfingen, Germany. It is here at the Manufaktur that each Maybach vehicle is produced according to customers individual ...
Read More »Range Rover Sport Puts the Emphasis on Sport
The Land Rover Range Rover sits at the top of the luxury SUV segment as one of the only vehicles on the road today that offers both a handsomely styled interior and exterior, and bona fide off-road underpinnings.
Read More »Furniture with Flair
Serge de Troyer, a Belgian designer based in Miami, has made a name for himself and his eponymous company with furniture handcrafted of fine leathers, parchment, Lucite, shagreen, bone, horn and other luxury materials. His latest introductions are the steamer trunk–like M-14 bar and the L-8 dining table
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