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Feed SubscriptionPoll: Small Business Owners Feeling Optimistic
When it comes to capital spending, hiring, and obtaining credit, small business owners are looking on the bright side. Despite an economy that’s far from recovered, soaring gas prices, and the import-price index creeping upward, small businesses are showing a surprising amount of confidence as it pertains to capital spending, hiring, and obtaining credit. In the recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index, small business owners said they plan to increase capital spending by 28 percent, a notable four-year high
Read More »2012 Porsche 911 Evolves Its Performance Legacy
Since its debut in 1963, the Porsche 911 has been the benchmark of performance and desirability. While its DNA has evolved over the years, the sports car’s soap-bar shape has helped it remain instantly recognizable throughout the past five decades. The classic and iconic shape has truly come to define ...
Read More »The Best Way to Keep Your Team Focused
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Read More »3 Problems with the ‘Bain Capital’ Model
The traditional private equity model could use a makeover.
Read More »Audi’s e-tron Spyder Is a Diesel-Electric Hybrid Supercar for a New Generation
One of today’s greatest challenges for automakers is developing innovative and viable alternatives to gasoline-powered engines. Several hybrid and electric options have hit the market over the past several years and diesel has made a surprising comeback, so it was only a matter of time before one manufacturer was bold ...
Read More »A Rare Roman Sculpture Makes Its New York Debut
A $3.8 million sculpture will be the standout piece among more than 80 important medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque objects at the exhibition Collecting Treasures of the Past VII, on view at the Blumka Gallery in New York City from January 26 to February 10. The sculpture depicts the ancient Roman ...
Read More »Light control technique could lead to tunable lighting and displays
(PhysOrg.com) -- Over the past several years, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have become a popular light source due to their advantages including bright displays, wide viewing angles, and the ability to be printed on flexible substrates. A lesser known alternative to OLEDs, which has these advantages plus some additional ones such as low turn-on voltage, is electrochemical light-emitting cells (LECs).
Read More »Why the Real Secrets of Success Are in Your Past
When most executives are looking to the future for their success, maybe it's better to first look back at your past. Here's why
Read More »VerticalResponse Acquires Roost
The Inc. 5000 company bought Roost to help make it easier for small businesses to engage in social media marketing.
Read More »Has the Higgs Been Discovered? Physicists Gear Up for Watershed Announcement
The physics buzz reached a frenzy in the past few days over the announcement that the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva is planning to release what is widely expected to be tantalizing--although not conclusive--evidence for the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle hypothesized to be the origin of the mass of all matter. [More]
Read More »Is Free Will an Illusion?
It seems obvious to me that I have free will . When I have just made a decision, say, to go to a concert, I feel that I could have chosen to do something else. Yet many philosophers say this instinct is wrong
Read More »‘Water Poor’ Will Suffer Most as Climate Change Hits Cities
Indore is the fastest-growing city in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The industrial center has grown rapidly in the past 20 years, reaching a population of nearly 3.3 million people.
Read More »Three-Quarters of Climate Change Is Man-Made
Natural climate variability is extremely unlikely to have contributed more than about one-quarter of the temperature rise observed in the past 60 years, reports a pair of Swiss climate modelers in a paper published online December 4. Most of the observed warming--at least 74 percent--is almost certainly due to human activity, they write in Nature Geoscience .
Read More »Turn Rejection into Success
Afraid of failing?
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