TechNewsWorld: The death of a major daily newspaper in a city like Seattle leaves the public underserved and no small number of journalists underemployed. Kery Murakami aims to help remedy both problems with a new online venture he started after the Post-Intelligencer folded its print edition last month. However, the transition from newsman to businessman […]
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News Blaze: Luke Fishback is a young entrepreneur with a good idea about energy conservation. It’s cheap, easy to do and saves money on electricity use. Hoping to tap into the growing environmental conservation movement, Fishback founded a company to install electric meters in kitchens and set up Web links so that residents can see,
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7online.com: If you haven’t run into Serena & Lily bedding and children’s accessories, you probably will soon. What’s so great about them? Serena (Dugan) and Lily (Kanter) help you create everything from stylish accents to complete looks for your little ones’ living (and sleeping) spaces. Whether you’re a novice or already have a strong eye
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The Wall Street Journal: Can mommy bloggers become mommy tweeters? A new microblogging site targeting moms and modeled after Twitter launched Friday. Rachael Herrscher, a 31-year-old mother of three, has added the abbreviated commenting feature to her site Today’s Mama. Ms. Herrscher is not the first to rip off the idea of Twitter. The more
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TuscaloosaNews.com: Hands-free fingernail polish, a Braille keyboard, a guitar pick for someone missing a hand, a baby carrier for a mother with cerebral palsy. These are some of the projects created by students at Northridge High School. Science teacher Beth Allaway first had them experience what it’s like to live with a disability. “The goal
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Market Watch: LifeVantage Corporation announced today that Aspenwood Capital has completed a $3.5 million private placement for the Company to accredited investors. Aspenwood Capital partner Steve Ossello said, “As active investment bankers for LifeVantage over the past several years, we have always been tremendous supporters of the company and its primary product – Protandim(R). This
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Seeking Alpha: A direct seller of various consumer products, Tupperware Brands (TUP) is best known for its popular kitchen storage containers. Roughly 80% of revenues are generated outside the U.S. Sales are split fairly evenly between established markets and faster growing emerging markets such as Mexico, South America, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Eastern Europe.
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BizJournals: Steve Connelly isn’t waiting for the economy to get better. He’s doing something about it himself. The president and executive creative director of Boston ad firm Connelly and Associates is on the hunt for acquisitions, and he’s recently hired two people. But, like 86 percent of small business decision makers polled in a City
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WiseBread: The best places for me to find cheap books were the public libraries around the Bay Area. Some of these libraries hold big annual sales where books are sold off in brown paperbags for $3 to $5 per bag. In one particular sale I got six bags of books for under $20 and sold
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SmartBrief: Gone are the days of simple, comfortable relationships between franchisors and preferred lenders, says FRANdata Corp. President and CEO Darrell Johnson in a new special report “Understanding How Capital Access Has Changed Financing.” There has been a paradigm shift in the interaction between franchise systems and their sources of capital, which means everyone will
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