Kiplinger: Defending your business online can be a matter of survival. Companies that ignore damaging and often malicious attacks are taking a big risk. And the danger is growing as negative comments are increasingly being posted online in blogs, chat rooms, online industry forum boards and consumer protection and public service sites. Even small and […]
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The News Journal: Inventor Thomas Edison was in his 30s when he invented the phonograph and perfected the light bulb. So there is still plenty of time for 14-year-old Jason Liu to make a mark with his parabolic reflector — or whatever else he might come up with before he reaches a more mature age
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Cracked: It’s no surprise that one of most profitable companies ever would want to keep their formula a secret. Even with hundreds of imitators, Coke still dominates world-wide sales of caramel colored drinks. But doesn’t that stuff only have, like, four ingredients? Fizzy water, high fructose corn syrup, caffeine and Brown Dye #4? There isn’t
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The New York Times: The ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb badly needs a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money – and more in government contracts – to the first company that figures out how to do it. Right now, that company could be Philips, the Dutch electronics giant.
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The Gazette: Clarksburg High School InvenTeam members gathered during the first week of school to talk about their summer trip to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, their invention and where they are headed with it. They were too excited about the reception their Torch Cord, a USB cable that lights up when touched, got at
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VentureBeat: RedBeacon, a startup that helps people find local services like maids or repairmen, won best of show at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The startup is in many ways what Craigslist could have become for local services. Formed by a group of ex-Google employees, the company is focusing on five markets at first
The Journal Record: Oklahoma State University is gearing up to put budding entrepreneurs through a mental workout. Organizers of the first OSU Cowboys Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs said it will build an entrepreneurial culture and increase success rates. The OSU boot camp is designed for Oklahomans interested in launching their own ventures and those in the
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Inventors Digest: For the 5th year in a row, Kentucky’s largest Inventors Conference will host inventors and entrepreneurs from throughout the state and region on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, at the Central Public Library in downtown Lexington KY. For more information about attending this conference, visit the Web site. The conference will feature the secrets
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NewsChallenge.org: Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring a geographic community? Does it include innovative use of new digital tools or processes such as social media, mash-ups or wikis? How about new ways to exchange information via hand-held devices like cell phones? Knight Foundation wants to know. “You invent it. We fund
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