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LinkedIn’s Volunteer Stampede: 600,000 People On A Mission

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Is LinkedIn tip-toeing into the world of volunteer service — or could it touch off  a bigger stampede than people realize? After chatting this week with Meg Garlinghouse, head of the LinkedIn for...
    






Obama’s Manufacturing Hubs Mean Cronyism, Corporate Welfare And Less Innovation

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It’s an endless parade, one  top-down proposal after another from Washington. Having just presided over another 80,000 pages of regulations in the 2013 Federal Register, the launch (so called) of...
    






SEMI: Forecasts are Positive at Annual ISS Conference

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In a press release issued January 14, semiconductor industry association SEMI provided synopses of key presentations at its Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS) being held in Half Moon Bay, California...
    






More Professional Sports Teams Are Thinking Green, To Please Fans And Make Money

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The requisite press releases have been issued proclaiming the uber green-ness of the upcoming Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in my home state of New Jersey. Indeed, back in 2009, the venue was...
    






To Get Funded On Kickstarter, Talk About Cats And Karma (And Don’t Grovel)

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If you’ve contributed to a lot of strangers’ Kickstarter campaigns, you no doubt thought you were giving money to projects you saw as having particular social value, utility or artistic merit. In...
    






What SolarCity Wants: Raising Money From Investors It Couldn’t Reach Before

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To broaden its fundraising base and support its growth, SolarCity said Wednesday it will tap new types of investors by launching an online investing tool developed a company it bought last month. The...
    






3 Tips For Disconnecting Kids From Over-Stimulation, Video Games, And Digital Media

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Do your kids need to disconnect? Are video games and the proliferation of mobile devices making us expect constant stimulation? Are we raising a generation of kids that believe they are entitled to...
    






Did Iranian Fighters Battle UFOs?

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As if the Iran-UFO connection (the Axis of Alien-ness?) couldn’t get any weirder, it now appears that the Iranian Air Force attempted to shoot down aircraft that didn’t seem very Earth-like. Before...