Washington Post: Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar who helped bring his instrument to the forefront of jazz and rock-and-roll performance, died today at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He had pneumonia. Paul first came to prominence for his fast and flashy jazz-guitar style, which […]
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Springwise: With cycling gaining ground as a regular mode of transportation, flat tires and broken chains are on the up, too. Which creates an opportunity for bike-loving entrepreneurs: mobile bike repair shops. In the Netherlands, for example, we’ve spotted companies like Fix Fiets and Bikemobiel, both of which do house calls in vans or trucks
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Jet Blue just announced “all you can jet” travel. Think about this kind of pricing for your business. Is there a way that you could get people to prepay for the ability to use your service an unlimited amount?
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Phoenix New Times: From Fatburger to In-N-Out Burger, there’s no shortage of burger joints in Tempe, but with thousands of ASU students to munch on them, what’s one more? This fall, Denver-based burger chain Smashburger is hoping to take a bite out of that business with the opening of its first Arizona location, at 777
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Franchising.com: Creative Colors International (CCI) announces the opening of its newest franchise servicing Omaha, Papillion, Belluvue, and Freemont in Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa. CCI is a recognized leader in repair, reconditioning and color restoration of leather, vinyl, fabric, plastics and carpeting in the automotive, marine, aviation and furniture industries. The CCI franchise, based in
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Franchising.net.au: One of Australia’s largest food franchises, Oporto, has opened its 11th drive-thru store on the M4 Eastbound, in Eastern Creek, Sydney. It is the franchise’s first drive-thru training store, allowing franchisees to get hands on experience before they take over or open their own Oporto store. “This store is a milestone for us as
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Trading Markets: Arcadia Resources, a provider of consumer health care services under the Arcadia HealthCare brand, has signed an agreement with a national in-home care provider Comfort Keepers to provide DailyMed for Comfort Keepers franchisees in 14 states. Arcadia said the program with Comfort Keepers will launch this month and includes franchisees in Southern California,
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photo credit: Pardesi* Being an employee, whether it is for a small company or a large one, can be stressful at times, especially in today’s economy with record high lay offs and unemployment. An employee often feels uncomfortable at work around their higher up co-workers and boss, wondering what they can say and not say,
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Crain’s New York Business: A major Brooklyn Burger King franchisee, AJA New York Restaurant Holdings, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Citing assets between $1 million and $10 million, and liabilities in the same range, the company owes money to fewer than 50 creditors. AJA New York, under the leadership of Chief Executive Alfred Poe,
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photo credit: Simon Davison From Monday 27th July 2009 to Friday 31st July 2009 we ran an experiment on the website for our server monitoring service, Server Density. The aim was to reduce page load time by as much as possible with the minimal amount of work. With just a few tweaks to the site,
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