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Business Fads

There is no other field of human activity—including entertainment, sports, high fashion, or politics—which is so riddled by fads as business. Every day there is a newspaper headline, every week there is a magazine story, and perhaps with the Internet we will soon be saying every hour there is yet another “guru” that touts a

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The iTreadmill

According to Mashable, there might be an Apple-branded treadmill in the works. At least that’s the thrust of a patent the company applied for, which involves a “sports equipment apparatus” with smart components to let it interface with an iPod or iPhone. The patent application, made public yesterday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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Today in Entrepreneurial History: January 22

1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. 1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California. 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world’s first “jumbo jet”, enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International

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