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This article is part one of a two part series. In part two, we will look at what small businesses should know. Jack Plunkett is the CEO of Plunkett Research .
Read More »Progressive Uses New Driver-Focused Technology to Determine Insurance Rates
“They had big antennae and wires going everywhere,” says Progressive’s Richard Hutchinson of Snapshot predecessors. The device is now roughly the size of a deck of cards
Read More »Change Generation: Wanderfly’s Christy Liu On Reimagining Travel Sites
Christy Liu is the cofounder of travel site Wanderfly, "We help people figure out where they can go and what they can do based on their budgets." Liu, and Wanderfly's three other entrepreneurial cofounders, work to make travel planning more fun--and to succeed on their own strengths. [twistage bd48aabb0a382] *In Partnership with
Read More »The Mark Zuckerberg Booted From Facebook And Other Dot-Com-Onyms
In light of Mark S. Zuckerberg losing his Facebook page, we examine some of the regular (or not-quite-regular) folk who share names with the titans of tech innovation
Read More »Crowd-Funding Websites Eye Shift
The SEC reviews rules that ban social network sites from facilitating equity investments, Gilt is valued at $1 billion, and the rest of today's news. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today
Read More »O Pioneers: Why Houston Is Our City Of The Year
Reinvention, innovation, and cultivation make Houston our City of the Year for 2011. IT'S PAST 11 P.M., AND I'M walking with my husband in downtown Houston. We've just seen a play at the Alley Theatre, and the stroll to our car, which I'd left at my office, gives us time to dissect the show and enjoy the city at night
Read More »Pay Attention – Or Pay Cash
When I worked at Microsoft in the late 1990s, Alex St.
Read More »What Does A "Live" Magazine Mean For Publishing?
Pop-Up Magazine, the brainchild of journalist (and Fast Company contributor) Douglas McGray, expands this week by collaborating with ESPN: The Magazine.
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Some things are best done after dark. Setting off fireworks. Telling scary stories
Read More »Fossil’s MetaWatch Is A Bluetooth-Powered "Revolution On Your Wrist"
Fossil makes wristwatches, a risky business in a world where everyone carries a time-telling phone. Hence the MetaWatch--a digitally connected, wrist-mounted life companion. Oh, and yeah, it tells time, too.
Read More »The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Media
01 / Univision > > For pleasing its Latino base, and threatening the TV network establishment. Univision reaches 95% of U.S. Hispanic households, making it one of the top five networks in any language.
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LABOR COSTS Average hourly compensation costs (wages, benefits, payroll taxes) for manufacturing workers, out of 34 surveyed countries: 1. Norway $53.89 14.
Read More »How to Become a Social Entrepreneur
Scott Harrison was 28 years old, sitting on a beach in Uruguay with a model girlfriend, a Rolex watch and a BMW waiting nearby—a life the nightclub promoter in New York City had been chasing after for nearly 10 years—when he realized (in his own words) "what a selfish scumbag" he was. His entire adult life had been geared towards serving himself and the club patrons, and when he had done nothing to help others, it made him step back. Seven years removed from that day on the beach, Harrison is still in New York, heading up charity: water , a non-profit organization that has delivered clean drinking water to over 1 million underserved people in 17 different countries, and aspires to help more than 100 million in the next ten years.
Read More »Researchers Invent Jell-O Based Testing For Pancreatitis
Using little more than Jell-O, aluminum foil, milk protein, and a 12-cent LED, University of Texas scientists have hacked together a super-cheap, fast-acting detector for pancreatitis.
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