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Why Tech CEOs Seem So Dumb
Tech Buzz Most of them aren't visionaries! They're just middle-aged rich dudes. Tech CEOs are like the opposite of power users.
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Sometimes Sequels Are Better Than The Original
Tech Buzz Ooh, that's gotta hurt. Sean Hopkins 1, Blockbuster 0.
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Shepherd Smith Goes Off On AT&T For Surprise “Unlimited Data” Limits
Tech Buzz Go Shep! AT&T recently took the “unlimited” out of its “unlimited data” plan by cutting data speeds of its most active customers without warning or notification. Fox News anchor Shepherd Smith is one of those customers, and on his show today, Smith gave AT&T a verbal spanking. (h/t Mediaite)
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The World Of Corporate Logos As Seen By A Five-Year-Old
Culture Buzz How many of the world's most famous brand logos can you identify? It's probably more than designer Adam Ladd's five-year-old daughter gets right in this video, but I'm willing to bet her descriptions are WAY cuter. (via The Daily What)
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Suze Orman Launches Financial Revolution With Auto-Tuned Theme Song
Music Buzz People who scroll past this are SO denied. Suze Orman launched a financial revolution today with the announcement of her Approved Card, a prepaid debit card Orman calls “the single most important thing I've done in my career” and the cornerstone of her new People First Movement. The best thing about Orman's announcement (besides the glowing reviews), though, is the auto-tuned rally cry she released yesterday to accompany it. So give the song a listen. Because boyfriend, you cannot afford to miss it!
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Image: Why Startups Fail [Infographic]
Building a successful business is every entrepreneur's goal—but only 1 in 12 succeed in doing it. The Startup Genome project analyzed data from 3,200 companies to explore why so many startups fail.
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Image: GameStop Removing Free Game Discount Code Before Selling Games
Deus Ex: Human Revolution was supposed to come with a code for a free game from online gaming service OnLive. In fact, that code is prepackaged with every copy of the game. Unless of course you buy from GameStop, where they have instructed their employees to open every box and remove every coupon. As a former GameStop employee (ah high school), let me say that this is unfortunately not surprising in the least. (via arstechnica.com)
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16 Stock Exchanges Around The World
Politics Buzz The many coffins of the DOW. When the economy gives its dying gasp or receives the kiss of life, it'll be in these noisy halls.
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Made In China: 10 Business Fakes
Culture Buzz China has become known as the epicenter for producing a wide variety of counterfeit and bootlegged consumer products, but a trend has emerged over the past few years of faking full retail operations.
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Image: Logo Rainbow
Rainbows are usually beautiful, but unfortunately this one tends to eat up our paychecks. One logo that’s noticeably missing ate up $3,000 of mine. Where’s the Apple?
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Image: The Hustle and the Machine
A more refined yin and yang between “working hard and working smart,” is “the hustle and the machine.” Working hard and working smart is a false paradox, because you always need to work hard smart. The difference in “the hustle and the machine,” is an acknowledgement that no matter how much you hustle, there are not enough hours in the day. That no matter how hard you plow, you do need some John Deere equipment.
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Image: How To Fail As A BusinessLady
Citibank HR put together this very helpful list of things you should not do, if you are a Woman In Business. Are you in your power position? Congrats, you have an MBA* now! *v. rare for ladies
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Link: Op-Ed Columnist: The Gospel of Wealth
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/opinion/07brooks.html?p...
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The betrayal of the age of excess has made us hungry for a new code reconciling material and spiritual longings.
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Link: The Future Of Netflix’s Business Laid Bare — By Netflix
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/03/netflix-business/
When it comes to slideshow presentations, few do them as well as Netflix. Last year, they released one that was sent around internally about their culture. If you read it, you probably wished you worked for Netflix afterwards. And now they’ve released one about the future of their business — it’s also fascinating.
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Link: Car Sharing Service Zipcar Files for $75 Million IPO
http://mashable.com/2010/06/01/zipcar-ipo/
Zipcar, Inc. has just filed the necessary SEC paperwork to prepare an initial public offering (IPO) of shares of its common stock. Zipcar, founded in 2000, is a company that operates in urban areas and college campuses around the U.S., UK and Canada. Their product is one of ultimate convenience: For non-car-owning members, Zipcar rents out by the hour or the day more than 30 makes and models of self-service cars and trucks.
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Link: The New Poor: Blacks in Memphis Lose Decades of Gains
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/business/economy/31memp...
Foreclosures and unemployment have destroyed black wealth and income and erased two decades of slow progress.
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Image: New Business Meeting
I guess drunkenly begging people for money, then hitting on their girlfriends could count as a business model, right?
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Link: Employers Eye Changes to 401(k) Plans, Study Shows
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mostemailed/*http://...
A quarter of U.S. employers have eliminated or plan to cut matching contributions to employee 401(k) retirement plans to save money amid the economy's downturn, according to research released on Monday.
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Link: Despite Odds, Cities Race to Bet on Biotech
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11biotech.html?partn...
Cities are gambling millions to promote an industry that has turned a profit only one year in the past four decades.
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