PCR-online.biz: After being turned down by Lord Sugar, Nick Holzherr has secured funding for his food website and app idea. In the Apprentice final, Lord Sugar told the technology entrepreneur that the website would not be useful, saying: “Who could be bothered with it?†Holzherr has now proved Lord Sugar wrong by successfully securing £170,000 […]
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Stuff.co.nz: Builder Glen Beh had a eureka moment after trying to hire yet another worker on one of his sites. He put in an advertisement for a “hammer hand” online and in newspapers and got a huge response from a broad range of people who should never have responded in the first place. People were
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LA Times: We don’t know what Subway ever did to Pizza Hut, but the quirky pizza chain is attempting a “takeover†of the sandwich giant’s market with its new P’Zolo concept. Pizza Hut? Making a sandwich? Coming from the company that has ringed its crusts with mini-cheeseburgers and stuffed them with hot dogs, it’s not
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Business Week: A new initiative dubbed the “New Generic Top-Level Domains” and organized by ICANN-the nonprofit that has managed Internet names and addresses since 1998-could add more than 1,000 extensions to the roughly two dozen familiar extensions in use now. New extensions are likely to be established in myriad categories: industry terms such as .bank
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It’s too late this year, but May 25th is Geek Pride Day. Maybe you can profit from it next year. T-shirts always do well with geeks, as evidenced by the fact that my wife buys me sloganed tees from ThinkGeek every year for my birthday. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that our own Angela
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A reader sent in this interesting article from the NY Times about competition and innovation yesterday. He said it might be “a bit heady.” You’ve been warned. My favorite paragraph: One of his core points is that we tend to confuse capitalism with competition. We tend to think that whoever competes best comes out ahead.
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When I was a kid, we’d often stop in at the local pet store just to see the new puppies and kittens that they had in stock. We never had any intention of purchasing anything, and I’m sure we’re weren’t alone. Now, a pet store owner in Beaufort, South Carolina has figured out how to
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Mothers’ Day is coming up. Looking for a gift for the crafty and entrepreneurial mom in your life? Epson can help expand their creative talents through with its portable EPSON LabelWorks LW-300 and LW-400. Both models deliver several features to help crafting and scrapbooking enthusiasts with all their labeling needs, including more than 40 tape
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DailyMail: Worries about money, jobs and the recession have become a part of everyday life for many of us. But the strain has become too much to bear for youngsters in Germany, resulting in the first kindergarten for stressed-out under-fives. Toddlers as young as three chill out with massages, foot baths and by walking through
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The Atlantic: For the visually impaired community, the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 seemed at first like a disaster — the standard-bearer of a new generation of smartphones was based on touch screens that had no physical differentiation. It was a flat piece of glass. But soon enough, word started to spread: The iPhone
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