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Netflix Abandons Qwikster, Will Keep DVDs . Netflix will keep its DVD mailing business after all, company CEO Reed Hastings has revealed in a blog post . In August, Netflix announced
Read More »How Can You Worship An Entrepreneur On Sunday and Step Over One on Monday?
All week, impromptu memorials have been popping up at Apple stores throughout America to commemorate the man who gave Apple life, Steve Jobs.
Read More »Filmmakers Band Together To Renew Focus On U.S. War In Afghanistan, Now In Its 10th Year
Friday, October 7th marked the 10th anniversary of the War in Afghanistan , which now surpasses the length of the official U.S. military engagement in the Vietnam War. Despite its longevity, the war has receded from daily headlines in mainstream U.S
Read More »Edsurge: Death To Edutainment Snoozers
Gamemaker Unity moves into the educational game space, hopefully with more panache than those that have come before. The groupies packed San Francisco's historic Masonic Center like Wi-Fi-toting sardines. The headliner?
Read More »Build a Moneymaking Franchise
European Wax Center's David Coba (with his siblings) turned a disastrous sideline of his fathers salon business into a national franchise. Though his franchising company now boasts 215 salons, David Coba entered the industry rather reluctantly
Read More »The U.S. Now Uses More Corn For Fuel Than For Feed
For every 10 ears of corn that are grown in the United States today, only 2 are consumed directly by humans as food.
Read More »The U.S. Now Uses More Corn For Fuel Than For Feed
For every 10 ears of corn that are grown in the United States today, only 2 are consumed directly by humans as food. The remaining 8 are used in almost equal shares for animal feed and for ethanol .
Read More »Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs On The Fate Of Firefox In A Mobile Era
Firefox is one of the world's most popular desktop browsers, with more than 450 million users. But as the world increasingly turns to mobile devices to access the web, Mozilla is in danger of getting left in the dust. A recent Pew report found that roughly 68% of all smartphone owners access the mobile web on a typical day; what's more, 25% of those users go online mostly using their phone (rather than, say, a PC)
Read More »Steve Jobs on Death [Video]
In the spring of 2005, Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech at Stanford University . It had been a year since he had first been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
Read More »What If You Can’t Give Things Away?
Entrepreneur Eileen P.
Read More »Scientists take up golf to prove long-standing theory of cell stickiness
State-of-the-art, highly-sensitive golf clubs, developed by scientists, regularly catch the eye of golf's elite; however before the likes of Rory McIlroy get excited this time, this new golf putter is being put to use in microbiology laboratories.
Read More »Apple Pie Redux: The Tastiest iPhone 5 Rumors Debunked/Verified
Apple's new CEO Tim Cook, and senior execs Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall just revealed all we need to know about the iPhone 5 and what was rumored or expected to be a suite of new Apple hardware and software products and tweaks. Some of what we thought was going to happen happened. Some of it, for reasons we'll understand later, didn't.
Read More »What To Expect From iOS 5
The iPhone 4S is a beaut. But no one has it yet, nor can every Apple fan afford to
Read More »The iPhone’s Face Recognition Will Change Social Media, Gaming, Online Privacy, Your Life
First there were rumors based on some patent applications and thus it seemed Apple was going to use face recognition tech from its acquisition of Polar Rose in future iPhones. Then hackers digging through the code inside a beta test version of iOS5 found hooks that confirmed face recognition was going to be a big part of it
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