We’ve often shared ways the iPad can help you manage your business, but what about using it to attract customers? Some places like Tenoverten, a nail salon, are using iPads like magazines. They make them available to customers, so they can surf the web while waiting for their manicure or pedicure to finish. However, Butter […]
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CNN Money: If you’ve ever dreamed of turning the tables and taking Bernie Madoff to the cleaners, here’s your chance. John Vaccaro, a New York entrepreneur, is selling iPad covers made from the disgraced financier’s tailored clothes. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison in June, 2009 for swindling billions of dollars from clients
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Fast Company: oBaz is short for online bazaar, and like that famously fluid market environment, it’s all about haggling to get what you want. Think of it as a Groupon in reverse: Advertisers go to Groupon with a deal offering, and if enough punters sign up the deal’s a go. At oBaz, a community of
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To those of us who haven’t tried to open a business there, Nevada seems like a libertarian utopia. Casino gambling all manner of victimless crimes are legal there. But, as one husband and wife tea of entrepreneurs discovered, there’s one thing you can’t do: Launching a business is a feat unto itself, but starting the
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SF Gate: There aren’t many legal ways to make $1,000 in one night. But Skillshare, a startup that lets any person teach a class and charge students for tickets, says 15% of its instructors have made that much money. SkillShare is a New York startup with a lofty goal. It wants to turn every address
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eTurboNews: GTX Corp. is introducing new shoes, loafers, and sneakers, with GPS built into them. Using a downloadable app, caretakers can track and be alerted if patients and loved ones wanders out of a pre-set safe zone. The GPS Smart Shoe will provide millions of caregivers the means to help easily find those afflicted with
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In just a few months, incandescent light bulbs will be illegal to purchase in the United States. Many people have no idea that most traditional light bulbs are about to disappear. For those in the know, it’s time to start hoarding: O’Neill keeps her stash under her basement stairs and figures she’s got a three-year
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Science has shown that petting a dog releases a hormone called oxytocin in both the dog and the petter, which makes everyone feel better. Oxytocin, called the “love hormone”, is the naturally occurring chemical in the body responsible for bonding between mother and baby in humans. Do you know what feels better than just feeling
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USA Today: If it seems like farmers markets are popping up like weeds, it’s because they are. New data out from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that more than 1,000 farmers markets have opened in the past year, up 17% from 2010. The newly released 2011 National Farmers Market Directory shows a total of
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Google’s not the only one with a robotic self driving car. China’s interested too: The car starts, steers safely to its destination 286 kilometers away and stops – all without a human driver. No, it’s not a scene from some Hollywood sci-fi movie, but an actual event on July 14 over an expressway linking Changsha
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