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Feed SubscriptionHow One Second Could Cost Amazon $1.6 Billion In Sales
Research on U.S. Net habits suggests that if this sentence takes longer than a second to load, many citizens will have clicked elsewhere already. If you've got the patience (or are European) read on for more shocking data on not dawdling
Read More »The importance of statistics in high-energy physics
If you remember, Mark Twain once said, There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. If you use statistics in an improper way, you could get pretty much any result, says Greg Landsberg, CMSs new physics coordinator. The role of the CMS Statistics Committee is to interpret what we see in a statistically correct way.
Read More »Get a "Buy Local" Boost
How can you capitalize on the good will felt toward small business this holiday season? We've scoured the statistics and tapped experts for their best strategies
Read More »The Rarest, Riskiest Elements We Use Every Day
Most of our modern technology is powered by a few very rare elements. Most of those elements aren't found in the United States
Read More »The Power of Women in Business
Count Me In founder Nell Merlino rings the opening bell to raise awareness of the power of women in business. Standing above the New York Stock Exchange trading room looking out at a sea of mostly men Friday morning, Nell Merlino was reminded of a breakfast she had in 1993 in the same room
Read More »Show Me The Money: iOS Developers Also Code For Android, But Prefer Apple’s Cash
A survey of developers at Apple's WWDC shows they all love the platform.
Read More »New Tools for Sales Training
Welcome to the world of sales training 2.0, where innovators are leveraging new technologyand new thinkingto make better sales people. Eric Richardson believes there's a serious disconnect in the world of sales.
Read More »What College Degrees Are Really Worth
A new study from Georgetown University breaks down which majors of study result in the highest career earnings.
Read More »How To Use Correlate, Google’s New Data-Mining Tool, To Help Your Business
With Google's new Correlate system, companies have a powerful (and, free!) new data-mining tool on their hands. Let us imagine the ways in which we'll use it. With
Read More »Welcome To The 168-Hour Work Week: The Tablet PC Revolution Never Sleeps
A new report says that 41% of mobile workers have a tablet, and another 34% plan on buying one inside six months. We're doomed.
Read More »Q: Who’s Dominating Q&A Sites? A: No One
Q&A websites are plagued with problems that few have yet to solve. Social Media Q&A is all the rage: Facebook just upgraded its questions feature , TED launched a website for its own community, Quora has culled a suprising response from experts, and firebrand Congressman Anthony Weiner held a marathon Twitter session on the anniversary of the new healthcare law
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