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We continue our examination of the business book Blue Ocean Strategy with an interview of authors W. Chan Kim And Renée Mauborgne. We explore their motivation for writing the book, and why more companies are using their strategies
Read More »Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko: The Orchestra In The Cell
Nobel Laureate Avram Hershko, who determined cellular mechanisms for breaking down proteins, talks about his research in a conversation recorded at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany. [More]
Read More »Is Planning Bad for Business?
A young entrepreneur presents a few disruptive strategies to help grow your business. Her message: Stop planning. Its useless
Read More »07.25.2011 | Inc.com Daily
Renting with Airbnb, RIM layoffs, Facebook iPad app revealed, and more.
Read More »ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Kari Wouk
Continuing with the tradition from last three years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2011 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January 2011. [More]
Read More »How to Attract a Peer Lender
Peer-to-peer lending has found its niche among small business owners in need of quick cash. Find out if its right for you, and learn some expert tips on appealing to lenders.
Read More »Parsing the Twitterverse: New Algorithms Analyze Tweets
Researchers have been trolling Twitter for insights into the human condition since shortly after the site launched in 2006.
Read More »ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Kaitlin Thaney
Continuing with the tradition from last three years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2011 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January 2011. [More]
Read More »IBM Tackles Personalized Medicine’s Big Data Challenge, One Genome At A Time
One human's genome represents a large chunk of data. Put a lot of genomes together and it starts to become unmanageable
Read More »Iowa State physicist to test next-generation neutrino detector for major experiment
Hundreds of physicists from around the world are making plans to shoot the world's most intense beam of neutrinos from Illinois, underground through Iowa, all the way to a former gold mine in South Dakota. And Iowa State University's Mayly Sanchez is part of the research team.
Read More »Visual Cortexes: Brain-Art Competition Shows Off Neuroscience’s Aesthetic Side
The brain is an exceedingly complex machine that harbors about 100 trillion neural connections . So it comes as no surprise that neuroscientists make great efforts to reduce or represent that complexity in their research with innovative imaging techniques.
Read More »Digital Oxytocin: How Trust Keeps Facebook, Twitter Humming
Internet users--Facebookers most of all--are a trusting bunch. Why?
Read More »Ultrasonic French Fries
It’s one of the most commonly consumed snacks in the Western world and has been made in one form or another for at least three centuries, so you might think nothing new could come of the humble french fry.
Read More »10 Start-up Incubators to Watch
Businesses that go through incubators historically have close to a 90 percent survival rate. And today, every major city has incubators focused on getting tech-savvy start-ups off the ground. We've pinpointed some of the most productive, innovative, and nurturing start-up incubators in the country"be sure to keep an eye on their next classes of graduates.
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