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“Before the Internet, when business was literally done with a firm handshake, small business types relied solely on local customers. The Internet has changed that forever. It allows us to communicate in ways unimaginable only a few years ago. It source...

“Most of Accoona’s $137 million/year in revenue came from distributing electronics after buying a number of retailers in Brooklyn. In 2007 they canceled a planned IPO. The reason? The underwriter pulled the plug, saying “After completing our due diligence review, source...

“ Consider Brain Windows, a blog launched in 2006 by Andrew Hires to track and discuss advances in brain-imaging technologies. "Mostly, blogs are an easy way to communicate and distribute knowledge"—a postdoc in Loren Looger's lab at HHMI's Janelia Farm source...

“The Cashback initiative, first launched in May, essentially offers money in exchange for using the Live search protocol. When you find and buy products through a Live search query, Microsoft sends you a certain percentage of the cost back. Initially, source...

“ Finally, it's here! The new list I've been working on for more than two weeks! This is the top 100 most popular blogs for software development managers. You might already have seen my earlier list: the Top 100 Best source...

“If you’re jonesing for more links you may want to visit Miss Cellania’s blog. Or should I say blogs. She’s like the blogosphere’s version of that Jamaican family from In Living Color. She has more blogs than they had jobs. source...

““Despite dire predictions from many analysts and much of the media,” said Brian Sullivan in Fox Business online, “Americans actually went shopping this weekend,” and in greater numbers than last year. According to National Retail Federation estimates, 172 million U.S. sh source...

“Google has long been rumored to be working on an operating system to compete with Microsoft’s Windows. When they launched their browser product, Chrome, in September, we noted that it essentially was Google’s operating system — a UI for the source...

“ I got up early at 5.00 AM - I check my emails, and reply to emails needed to respond. Along the way, I receive some notifications that my blogs visitors have left comments - I go to my blogs source...

“Earlier this month we saw the military ban the use of USB drives and other removable media. Apparently the virus outbreak that lead to this measure affected 75\% of all systems at the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Details source...

“ Despite Adobe's progress working on a version of Flash for the iPhone, it has become evident that the application would violate Apple's strict Terms of Service. Unless Apple lessens its grasp on the iPhone and lets a little open-source source...

“The monetary regime has changed and, as a result, many people are misinterpreting the recent increase in the monetary base.  Paul Krugman, for example, posts the picture at right.  His interpretation is that the tremendous increase in the base shows source...

“The remains of an elderly man found in a Polish cathedral in 2005 have now been confirmed to be that of Copernicus, the 16th century astronomer famous for displacing Earth from the center of the universe. A team of Polish source...

“ If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, source...

“In the old days, any new product launched by a major consumer brand was accompanied by a marketing blitz that would almost guarantee decent early sales. Then eventually the reviews in newspapers and specialist magazines and word-of-mouth from happy or source...