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Yesterday Twitter revealed it bought Posterous , a lifeblogging/microblogging/sharing site.
Read More »Worked to death? 10 jobs that may hurt your heart
Hard at work or heart at work? Some jobs take higher toll on blood-pumping vessel than others
Read More »Study: iPads let doctors work more efficiently
University of Chicago internal medicine residents said that they saved about an hour a day, stopped delays in patient care thanks to iPad
Read More »How Robust Is Your Customer Pipeline?
A formulaic approach to building a prospect list will help you decide quickly whether a new business has enough potential for growth. Before investing in a new business , or expanding your current business into a new market, it helps to address several questions in order to gain a clear picture of the right business model to pursue. The first involves developing a well-tuned sense of your target customer .
Read More »Yahoo Sues Facebook, Twitter Acquires Posterous, Dugan Leaves DARPA For Google
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Last.fm To Track Music With Musicmetric . Music artists now have a new free tool to track how their audiences are responding to their content on the web
Read More »8 Steps to Acquiring a Business
How to apply Sun Tzu strategies to business acquisition.
Read More »Metal-on-metal hip implants: No reason to take risk, study warns
British researchers call for ban on metal-on-metal hip implants, citing high failure rates and safer alternatives
Read More »G.I.’s plea: Give troops with PTSD more help
Due to his own diagnosis, he's to be discharged from same troubled base where Afghan rampage suspect is stationed
Read More »Soda a day may lead to heart attacks in men
Journal reports that men who drink a non-diet soda or other sugary beverage daily have a 20 percent higher risk of heart attack
Read More »Reporters without Borders Releases Its 2012 "Internet Enemies" List
Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based non-governmental organization (NGO) that defends journalists and fights censorship, on Monday added the governments of Bahrain and Belarus to its 2012 list of Internet Enemies an inventory of governments worldwide that filter online content, restrict their citizens’ Internet access, track cyber dissidents and use the Web to spread pro-government propaganda while smearing opposition. These countries join other governments that the NGO has cited as cyber oppressors, including Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Bahrain, whose population of 1.2 million people reside an area roughly the size of Washington, D.C., experienced an uprising last February as part of the Arab Spring protests throughout the Middle East and northern Africa
Read More »Netflix Deal Reveals Apple’s Secret Sauce: iTunes Pay Channel
As announced this week, the new Apple TV brings a new UI, better internal specs, and full HD capability to the table. But there's the business equivalent of an Easter egg hidden in it for Netflix subscribers: From now on, if you want to join Netflix you can do it through your Apple TV, and Apple handles the payments via its iTunes back channel. Essentially it works like this: The Apple TV functionality hinges on your iTunes user account, the same kind that's powered 25 billion app downloads to date
Read More »Study: Red meat raises risk of dying, risk higher with processed meats
Daily serving of processed meat increased death risk by 20 percent, study found, while once-per day serving of unprocessed red meat was tied to 13 percent increase in death risk
Read More »Marvel Announces Big Digital Comics Push, But Will It Fly?
Marvel Entertainment announced its big digital comics push , dubbed "ReEvolution,"
Read More »Soda-drinking men at higher risk for heart attack
Men who drink sugar-sweetened beverages, including sodas and non-carbonated fruit drinks, may have a higher risk of heart attack, a new study shows.
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