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KC’z Bar: A Women’s Only Bar

Cassandra Daily: Last month, Sofakingcool in London’s Soho neighborhood reopened as a women’s-only restaurant and networking hub called KC’z Bar. Owner KC Gates explained to The London Evening Standard that the reinvented space is intended “to be a place women can come to after work. It’s not about preventing men from coming in but (rather)

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Taxiback: Fewer Empty Taxis

Springwise has notes about a company called Taxiback that facilitates disounted rides for passengers and fewer empty trips for taxis drivers: It’s a fact of life in the taxi business that cabs must often return back to base empty after dropping off a customer — particularly when that drop-off was at an airport. That return

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Building A Better Jam

When Waitrose decided to stock Fraser Doherty’s SuperJam in its stores, he became the youngest entrepreneur to make it into a major supermarket chain. However, that is not where his achievements end, reports Sunderland Echo. Fraser was just 14 when, using his gran’s recipes, he developed a healthier jam with 100 per cent fruit and

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Making Tables From Hangers

This is Somerset: The patriotic table tops are the work of inventor and entrepreneur Nick Stillwell, who created them using recycled coat hangers supplied by the Frome store. Between 500 and 600 coat hangers have gone into each of the first two 8ft by 4ft table tops, each weighing 35kg. Mr Stillwell, who founded Protomax,

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LingleOnline: Teaching Materials For English Teachers

The Sunday Business Post: LingleOnline lets teachers automatically create English language learning materials from current news sources. The application’s analysis engine allows teachers to analyse news articles to automatically identify grammar and vocabulary in context. Founded in August 2011, the Dublin-based company was set up by Ian Butler and employs four people. Originally the software

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