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Feed SubscriptionYahoo CEO Carol Bartz Is A Digital Bigfoot
Known for her blunt leadership style, Bartz also makes a deep impression online, according to digital footprint tracker PeekYou. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has huge digital feet
Read More »Keas: The New Game That Has Officemates Battling One Another To Get Healthier
Former Google exec Adam Bosworth is helping companies save money on health care by gamifying exercise and nutrition as coworkers compete for cash prizes. "We’re trying to change health habits in a very fundamental way," he tells us.
Read More »There Is No Such Thing As A Health Care Consumer
Google announced last week that it is shutting down personal health record service Google Health. The underlying cause: the people who use Google Health aren't the people making health care decisions. The Internet has been a boon for consumers who want to learn more about their medical symptoms and conditions.
Read More »Clinton Talks Job Creation
Yep, it's still the economy stupid, and the former president is talking small business and job creation at the Clinton Global Initiative this week. With job creation at the heart of the economic discussion in America, former President Bill Clinton will soon be joining the conversation in a big way
Read More »Ruby Anik On Remembering Mother’s Day Twice A Year
Photograph by Matt Nager Creative marketers are launching new efforts to reach the Latin American community.
Read More »Legacy of Mental Health Problems from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Will Be Long-Lived
As Operation Enduring Freedom, the war on terror in Afghanistan, winds down and some 33,000 U.S.
Read More »A Virtual Phone System for Entrepreneurs
Siamak Taghaddos and David Hauser met as undergrads at Babson College while both were managing businesses they started in high school. One of their biggest challenges was how to answer work calls while in class. "If a customer wanted to place an order for a product, the only number I could give them was my house line," says Taghaddos.
Read More »Facebook VP: "We Get Too Much Credit For The Arab Spring"
Facebook VP David Fischer explicitly downplayed the social network's role in Middle Eastern revolutions to an Israeli conference which included a tech industry who's-who. One of Facebook's highest-ranking international executives told a dignitary-packed Israeli conference that the website played a minimal role in the Arab Spring .
Read More »As the World Reconsiders Nuclear Energy, the U.S. Remains Committed to Its Expansion
Dear EarthTalk: Radioactive rain recently fell in Massachusetts, likely due to Japan’s nuclear mess. Given the threats of radiation, wouldn’t it be madness now to continue with nuclear power? How can President Obama include nukes as part of a “clean energy” agenda
Read More »Facebook To Launch Crowdsourced Ad Format Next Week
What do you do if creative agencies are constantly bugging you to create new ways to promote brands on your network? Hold a competition
Read More »Alternative U.S. Nuclear Reactor Design Seeks Country Willing to Build Prototype
The TerraPower "wave reactor" concept is backed by Microsoft's Bill Gates, is endorsed by Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman Jr. and has gotten a receptive ear from President Obama's Energy Department. But it's headed overseas for its next crucial step, if ongoing negotiations with a foreign sponsor are successfully completed, says Roger Reynolds, TerraPower's technical adviser
Read More »Training Secrets From Inside The Googleplex
Think you’ve got training challenges? Try making sure thousands of your sales agents are up-to-date with the ever-changing online ad business
Read More »Obama drives the golf cart, Boehner sinks the putt
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama drove the cart and House Speaker John Boehner celebrated a short putt during their much anticipated golf outing Saturday at a military base outside the nation's capital.
Read More »Howard Greenstein, Inc.com Blogger and Social Media Strategist
He is the President of Harbrooke Group, which helps companies communicate to customers with the latest Web technologies.
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