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Facebook Puts Friends In A Benz

Soon, you'll be able to use Facebook in your Mercedes-Benz. (You roll in a Benzo, right?) Is Facebook suffering from "mission creep"?

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Acquiring a Business

Navigating the road of buying another business can be a tricky one. Here are some things to look for along the way.

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Toss the Motivation Book

If your business strategy includes financial targets, sales goals, or mission statements, you're doing it all wrong.

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Toss the Motivation Book

If your business strategy includes financial targets, sales goals, or mission statements, you're doing it all wrong. Ever wonder why your company's objectives seem so elusive and your strategy so hard to deliver on

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GM’s Wireless Safety Net Warns Drivers About Dangerous Situations

Using a combination of signals from all over the road, a new system takes cars a step closer to being able to automatically react to conditions in front of them. It will still be at least a decade before GM's EN-V autonomous pod cars hit the streets, but in the meantime, the automaker is working on a mobile system that uses information from surrounding vehicles and infrastructure to warn drivers about dangerous situations.

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The Next Big Thing In The Electric Vehicle World: Retrofits Of Gas Guzzlers

There are 1.5 million extra hybrids on the road already, we just haven't converted them yet. It doesn't make sense to tear down our city infrastructures to make way for new LEED-certified buildings; instead, property owners often opt to retrofit, making a building as efficient as possible within its existing shape. The same may soon be true for vehicle owners

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Audi Calculates How Frustrated Drivers Are In Your City At Any Given Moment

Given the weather, the traffic, and the general attitude of the drivers, you can now measure how annoying it will be to get on the road at any given moment. Traffic is, apparently, a hot button issue. First IBM came out with its Commuter Pain Index , a look at the cities with the world's most painful commutes, and now Audi has released its Road Frustration Index , a real-time site that quantifies driver frustration in different parts of the U.S.

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Building Roads That Work For Animals And People

It looks like a regular overpass, but it's not for cars, it's for bears. Highway designs that allow animals to pass over or under without becoming road kill are getting more and more common, but will they work in the Serengeti, when the road crosses the largest animal migration in the world?

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The Traffic Problems That Will Disappear When Vehicles Can Talk To Each Other

Dangerous roads, rubbernecking at accidents, even running out of juice on your EV: All can be solved by the winners of the Department of Transportation's Connected Vehicle Technology Challenge, which found new ways for cars to talk to each other. Traffic is generally accepted as a necessity of modern life, but it doesn't have to be. We don't have traffic because there are too many cars, we have traffic because people are bad drivers and don't have enough information to make smart decisions

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