Mashable: Your smartphone senses your location and who you talk to when. But does can it detect when you’re feeling under the weather? Anmol Madan explored this question in his thesis at MIT Media Lab. After completing a study that involved more than 320,000 hours of data from research participants’ mobile phones, he was able […]
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1886 – The first ticker-tape parade takes place in New York City when office workers spontaneously throw ticker tape into the streets as the Statue of Liberty is dedicated. 1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of ’29 or “Black Tuesday”, ending the Great Bull Market of
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1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty
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9News.com: No one in Granite Falls is old enough to remember the exact year the stand went up, but sometime between the ‘Roaring ’20s’ and the Great Depression the corner of 7th and Prentice started popping. “It’s been there as long as I can remember and that’s a long time ago,” laughed Jim Finnes, one
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1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). 1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression. 1924 – Toastmasters International is
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In October, we featured an article about the WaveMaster boat docking system. His docks are truly a green product, and they are made in the USA. He is an inspiration to many entrepreneurs who hope to follow the same path. We recently got in contact with the founder of WaveMaster, Larry Moody, and asked him
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MedIndia: Parties hosted by housewives during the 1950s and 1960s across the world to sell their products were the early forms of social networking before Facebook and Twitter, claims Tupperware company. “Facebook represents the same type of social get-together with like-minded friends as a Tupperware party, except that it’s not in someone’s actual home, but
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1500 — The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas. 1842 — The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush. 1933 — Great
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Yesterday we celebrated President’s day. It is the perfect time to remember the people that have helped make our country great. Reuters recently took a look at some of these men, and the men who small business owners should pay homage to. Two of them are below. Do you have a favorite? Bill Clinton (1993-2001)
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PR Newswire: Passion Parties®, North America’s premier party-plan company selling sensual products, is a sponsor for the 2011 Style Lounge produced by Secret Room Events care of the Golden Globe Awards. Golden Globe nominees, presenters, select celebrities, stylists, and reporters will receive gift bags featuring The Passion Parties Guide to Great Sex, published by Random
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