The following is a guest post by Gregory Lewis. David had his slingshot. Small businesses have technology. Check out how these three tools are helping the little guys run leaner, smarter, and more successful small businesses. iPad Cash Registers By now, you know your iPad can do a lot more than play Angry Birds. But […]
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WSJ: When James Loden, an ophthalmologist, recently peered into a patient’s eyes, he was evaluating her for laser surgery to correct her vision. But her eyes were sharp enough to have already scanned Dr. Loden’s office, noting a small water stain on the ceiling in the hallway, the technician’s missing name tag, and that exactly
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Manchester Evening News: Teenage business brain Husna Iqbal-Willan is adding flair to the traditional hijab worn by Muslim women with her new venture. The delicately draped cloth has become more than just a statement of religion, as more and more women are putting their own style touches to it. To cater for the market, Husna,
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Shower radios are all the rage amongst a certain demographic of people. I’ve never bought one, because I’m too shy to sing the shower and the idea of battery powered devices and running water never really appealed to me. Plus, there was the whole changing the batteries thing. Fast forward to today. The H2O Shower
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VisualNews.com: Of all the water on earth, only an incredibly small percentage is available for us to use and drink… the remainder is largely highly salty water, or at best brackish water with unhealthy levels of salt. For much of the western world, where water is plentifully available and piped right to your location this
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The Patriot Ledger: Jane Hoffman, the namesake and owner of the high-end consignment shop Jane, credits both of her parents for giving her the spark to open her own business. Her father, Leo Donovan, was the owner of South Shore Auto Parts in Scituate for more than 50 years, and he exposed her early on
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Mackay Daily Mercury: It’s quite a change from running childcare centres to providing rubbish removal solutions, but what it really boils down to is seeing a need and providing a service for Mackay business couple Craig and Cathie McGifford. The couple’s latest business venture is called Rhino Skip Bags, a reinforced polypropylene bag which comes
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World Property Channel: Seventy percent of China’s 2,500 amusement parks are losing money – but their investors aren’t crying. Instead, they are betting on their adjacent commercial and residential developments, including apartments, villas and hotels, to make their profits. It’s a relatively new game that about one-third of China’s top 100 property developers are now
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Business Insider: But are young people interested in starting their businesses for the right reasons—or the wrong ones? A new study by Harris Interactive for ASQ (PDF), which polled teens about their attitudes toward careers and study, paints a worrisome picture. The teens, ranging from 6th to 12th graders, believed studying science, technology, engineering and
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NY Times: To satisfy our ever-growing need for computing power, many technology companies have moved their work to data centers with tens of thousands of power-gobbling servers. Concentrated in one place, the servers produce enormous heat. The additional power needed for cooling them — up to half of the power used to run them —
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