Fortune Small Business: Despite his wheelchair, and often because of it, Dr. Glen House has always enjoyed doing what he isn’t supposed to. Take the time he persuaded his neighbor in Colorado Springs, J.W. Roth, to join him on vacation in the ice fields of Taku, Alaska. The trip entailed flying to a remote lodge […]
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Pryor Daily Times: Two local moms are supplementing their incomes while offering area moms snap shots of their children’s lives. Kristy Troyer and Melissa McClendon, correspondents for The Daily Times and first-time mothers, created Snap Shot Moms in September. Snap Shot Moms is an online photography service of community events and sports in Mayes County.
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PR Web: Elena Potoupa, owner of Wow-Coupons.com, was named a Finalist in The 5th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business in the “Best Entrepreneur – Service Businesses – Up to 100 Employees” category. A native of Minsk, Belarus, Elena Potoupa earned two degrees by the age of 20, a B.S. in Physics and a
The New York Times: Earn big money taking photographs in your spare time! It sounds like a late-night TV come-on for a phony get-rich-quick scheme. But in this case, it might just be true. Thanks to the Internet and digital cameras, thousands of semiprofessional photographers are now selling their shots through so-called microstock Web sites
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The New York Times: If shopping is indeed a form of therapy, why does nobody seem to get better? Because of one innovation, one group of shoppers may start. Hospitals have begun installing Internet systems, complete with dedicated shopping channels, to help patients pick up goods they will need for their recuperation. The idea is
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BBC News: A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulated centres in the brain that controlled decision-making and complex reasoning. The researchers say this might even help to counteract the age-related physiological changes that cause the brain to slow down. The study features in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. As
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The New York Times: If the Internet can make anyone a star, can it turn Barnes & Noble into one, too? The bookseller has taken another step beyond its traditional business into the online publishing world, recently introducing Quamut.com, a site that teaches Web users things as diverse as the basics of football and how
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The Wall Street Journal: Relief may be on the way for small businesses stuck with bad Web addresses. Next year, the organization that oversees the Internet will start selling rights to an unlimited number of new top-level domains — the suffixes like .com that appear at the end of Web-site names. Domains likely to appear
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The New York Times: Henk van Ess, a Dutch consultant and speaker who trains media professionals in the use of technology, says he wasn’t looking to start a business when he sent out a note to a few groups on LinkedIn trying to find a way of extending the battery life of his new iPhone.
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Herald Sun: Two companies were honoured for their savvy and unique approach to business at the Telstra Business Awards in Sydney. Find A Babysitter, an online babysitter and nanny directory, won the national micro-business award, and the Atlantic Group, a Docklands-based catering company, won the national medium business award. Find A Babysitter netted its gong
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