Archive for May 15th, 2010
5 Things You Might Not Know About The $20 Bill
Seven years ago, the revamped $20 bill debuted with a colorful new look and a slew of high-tech security features. Answers.com takes a look back at the history of the “double-sawback” to uncover five things you probably didn’t know about the bill: 1. The average circulation life for a $20 bill is 25 months. 2. [...]
Inventors Wanted: Stop Cell Phone Use In Prisons
Arstechnica reports that the campaign to rid our nation’s prisons of cell phones went to the next level, with a call from the Department of Commerce for intel on devices that can get the situation under control. The government is “seeking comment on technical approaches” to the problem, Commerce says. The illicit use of cell [...]
Facebook Serving More Than 50 Billion Banner Ads Per Month
During the first quarter of 2010, Facebook served up more banner ads than any other website, according to new data from comScore published in The Wall Street Journal. In total, the social networking site displayed 176.3 billion ads during the period, for an average of better than 50 billion ads each month. That total represents [...]
How Entrepreneurs Benefit from Collaboration
Despite “collaboration” becoming increasingly accepted and valued in business, there are still those that remain hesitant about sharing information or resources and about working with others. It’s still common to hear people say “I have developed a great tool, but I’m afraid that if I share it with anyone, they’ll steal my idea.” ReadWriteWeb reports [...]
Student Smokes Competition With Award-Winning Invention
When Trevis Kurz looked around at his surroundings last March, he knew he was representing Ohio State to people from all over the world. The commotion was incredible, the excitement was infectious and the competition seemed insurmountable. “There were 50,000 people,” Kurz said. “It was total chaos, I didn’t know what was going on that [...]
Mom Becomes Successful Inventor
Stephanie Veve had enough of wrapping her kid’s ice pops in napkins. So she did what many have thought of, but never fully perused—she came up with a new invention. The Temecula entrepreneur and mother of three created Pop Pals. According to Southwest Riverside News Network, Pop Pals are a sleeve for ice pops youngsters [...]
Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Williams are now household names, and in many ways, these entrepreneurs are like rock stars in the startup world. In fact, the journey of an entrepreneur through the startup experience is a lot like that of a musician seeking stardom and millions of adoring fans, and artist Shane Snow has a [...]
Even The Babysitter Can Take Credit Cards
According to ReadWriteWeb, small businesses, mobile vendors and yard sale junkies across the world unite – credit and debit cards have come to the street-side, the festival ground and the front yard with the release of Square. Square is an app for both iPhones and Android devices that allows its users to accept both cash [...]
Campaign For A National Entrepreneurs’ Day
According to Inc.com, entrepreneurs are on their way to tweeting themselves to an official day in their honor. At least that’s the hope of a Twitter petition launched to persuade President Obama to declare March 20, 2011 the first annual National Entrepreneurs’ Day. David Hauser and Siamak Taghaddos, co-founders of Needham, Massachusetts-based Grasshopper, a virtual [...]
LOLCat King On What Makes Internet Culture Viral
Ben Huh is the CEO of The Cheezburger Network, a ring of highly lucrative websites that curate and capitalize on Internet memes and macros. During the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, he sat down with Jolie O’Dell of Mashable.com, to tell us all about Internet culture, from what makes for a guaranteed flop online [...]
Would New Law Hamper Startup Fundraising?
According to Mashable.com, the U.S.’s proposed Financial Reform bill could place some pretty tough constraints on angel investors, possibly upsetting the balance of early-stage venture capital for tech startups. A report got into the nitty-gritty details of the massive bill and uncovered some stipulations that would definitely affect the early-stage investment market, possibly making raising [...]
