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  • Giftly Looks to Disrupt Traditional Gift Cards

    Giftly Looks to Disrupt Traditional Gift Card Market Elise Craig, xconomy.com Elise Craig When CEO Tim Bent­ley found­ed Gift­ly, a site that allows users to give gift cer­tifi­cates through recip­i­ents’ cred­it cards, he real­ized busi­ness would be heav­i­ly sea­son­al. The three big hol­i­days for gift cards ar… http://flpbd.it/Ec3yc Related articles Hackers Team Up To Steal…

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  • Yapp events app builder

    Let The App Creation Era Begin: Yapp Events App Builder Launches Out Of Beta Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com Remem­ber the time when web sites were reserved for busi­ness­es, or niche design­ers? Before the days of Tum­blr and Word­Press and even MySpace (where I learned my first bit of basic code). Now any­one can eas­i­ly build a…

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  • Raspberry Pi puts programming into everyone’s hands

    Everyone wants a slice of Raspberry Pi Miranda Sawyer, guardian.co.uk The £25 programmable computer invented by British scientists has turned into a global sensation. Will it encourage kids to teach themselves code, or just end up in the hands of nerds? It’s 9am on a lovely autumn morning at Cern, the European… http://flpbd.it/8ObHT Related articles…

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  • The new green barons

    The New Pot Barons: Businessmen Bank on Marijuana By Tony Dokoupil, thedailybeast.com Pot use in the United States is rising sharply, and voters may make it fully legal in two states this fall. Smart businessmen are banking on that happening. Full dark in down­town Den­ver, and inside one of the twin­kling high-rises that make th……

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  • Cyberwar of personalized data

    The cyber war: Deus ex machina economist.com THE scene could be in Tampa, or Santa Bar­bara, or Chica­go. Mr and Mrs Six­pack are relax­ing after din­ner with their iPads. Each is look­ing at the same news web­site, but each will be shown dif­fer­ent polit­i­cal adver­tis­ing. He sees… http://flpbd.it/I9SWg Related articles NATO cyberwar directive declares hackers…

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  • Avoiding mega hospital charges with retail clinics

    For Simple Care, Retail Clinics Are A Popular Choice Scott Hensley, npr.org If you’ve got the snif­fles or need a shot, do you go to the doc­tor or stop in at a clin­ic in a near­by drug­store? Lots of peo­ple are opt­ing for the clin­ics, which are spring­ing up inside gro­cery stores, big-box retail­ers and…

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  • Hard cider is rediscovered

    Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider Nina Keck, npr.org Americans Rediscover The Kick Of Hard Cider NPR Morning Edition A cou­ple hun­dred years ago. hard apple cider used to be the drink of choice for thirsty Amer­i­cans. It was easy to make and easy to find. But as peo­ple moved into cities, and be……

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  • Accelerators Are the New B-school

    Flash Steinbeiser, inc.com Inc.com staff As more young entrepreneurs find success from their business accelerator contacts, the usefulness of traditional business school is put into question. Turns out, more and more young entre­pre­neurs favor the busi­ness con­tacts… http://flpbd.it/tBMY1 Accelerators Are the New B-school Related articles Brad Feld to write foreword for the book Accelerate (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)…

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  • Redo the resume for shrinking attention spans

    How To Redesign Your Resume For A Recruiter’s 6-Second Attention Span By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com The average recruiter spends six seconds on your resume. So this is what you do. It’s fright­en­ing. You’ll spend most of your wak­ing life at a job, yet, accord­ing to a new study by The­Lad­ders, the aver­age recruiter spends just…

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  • Digital agencies learn to design culture

    How Agencies Can Hack Culture for Brand Insights Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Pic­ture this: you’re in a meet­ing in which your team is chal­lenged to come up with ideas that tap into trends and pop cul­ture. Every­one at the table nods in agree­ment. Cul­ture! Yes. Impor­tant. Check. Two weeks later, only vague (if any)… http://flpbd.it/TWevT…

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  • Engineering language is the key to branding across culture

    Need Branding That Transcends Cultures? Invent Your Own Language By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A thoughtful identity gives a multinational disease research network a new way to communicate. Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty’s Clin­i­cal Research Unit is an 11-year-old net­work of groups that coop­er­ate to track and pre­vent infec­tious dis­eases, fro… http://flpbd.it/XD4bv Related articles geordie shore cast are surprise…

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  • Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder

    Eric Markowitz, inc.com Inc.com staff Don’t get an MBA. Don’t even learn to code. If you really want to start a great company, hone your design skills. Reams have been writ­ten about the impor­tance of founders that can code—or, in Sil­i­con Val­ley par­lance, the… http://flpbd.it/5lhZ9 Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder Related articles Silicon…

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