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Mowing Down Climate Change With a Clean, Quiet Gardening Company

Kelly Giard's startup Clean Air Lawn Care uses solar-powered machines -- and like his lawns, it needed careful planning, constant care and cultivation to grow into the thriving business it is today. Here’s what Giard has to say about his green thumb.READ»

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Facebook Scrambles To Release Cyber Security Tools

Facebook Announces Cyber Security Tools By James Rickman, SustainableVirtualBiZ.com reports as Facebook, the Internet social media network scrambles to is rolling out new enhanced security features for millions of users targeted by ...READ»

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Healthcare Web Analytics

Monitoring social media interest and web analytics online, we can gauge the general sentiment (positive or negative) around the whole healthcare issue. Here’s what was found recently, says Corbett:In the ...READ»

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International Monetary Fund Extends $962 Billion Euro Bailot

European leaders negotiated into the early hours of Monday before reaching a deal in which governments that use the euro would join the EU and International Monetary Fund in putting up euro750 billion in loans available to prop up ...READ»

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Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Chosen By Obama

Obama Picks Elena Kagan, U.S. Supreme Court Nominee VIDEO Below  - If confirmed by the White House and later by the U.S. Senate, Kagan will replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. VIDEO NBC News: ...READ»

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Wall Street Melt Down Survival Portfolio

Many Wall Street investors are seeking direction in a confused and interconnected global market. If someone sneezes in Europe now, everyone catches cold. However the long-term outlook examining the global financial conditions, we ...READ»

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Facebook Effective Social Media Strategy

Today, our studies show 79% of all consumers base purchasing decisions on information and social media reviews. What strategy should your business employ? Here are a few suggestions:Transparency is different to honesty. Honest is when ...READ»

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YouTube Video Social Media Revolution

VideoContentLive.com launches a comprehensive set of pre-production, live production and post-production video and audio services. Our crews have produced and edit video for global online media campaigns, product launches, ...READ»

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Economic Data April Shows Improvement

SustainableNews Video ChannelWATCH VIDEO REPORT BELOW -- Consumers' confidence in the economy rose in April 2010, but the Conference Board business group's index remains below the level that's considered healthy. And unemployment ...READ»

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Facebook Social Media Advertising Analysis

Companies are using innovative ways to more cost effectively target sales and marketing budgets increasing return on investments. Now marketers hungry for more than soft measures of social media exposure and estimates of ...READ»

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Reshaping America's Mobile Workforce

Over thirty-five million workers in the United States commute via mobile office workspaces thus America is quickly acquiring a new nickname as; Freelance Nation. The reality of the corporate shift towards more ...READ»

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Sustainable Economics Rings Hollow In America

Today, China leads the world at 9.8% GDP growth, followed by India 8.8% likely to remain throughout 2010. Among the developing market highlights, International Monetary Fund data tracks accurately Brazil 5.5%, South ...READ»

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iPad Apple Buys FastCore Intrinsity

Apple just confirmed it bought privately held Austin, Texas chip designer Intrinsity. The company, founded in 1997, develops high-speed, low-power version of popular chips. It's also reportedly designed portions of the processor that ...READ»

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Facebook Web Traffic Challenges Google

Internet powerhouses are squaring off, as Facebook’s 450-million users meet the eight-hundred pound gorilla in Google. The battle royal for web traffic has some indicators ranking Facebook at 7.07% versus Google’s 7.03% March ...READ»

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Green Business Sustainable Economics

Currently, over 34-million Americans regularly telecommute, working from a virtual wireless platform reports the U.S. Department of Commerce. Fueled by high-speed broadband adoption, better collaboration tools (SaaS), and growing ...READ»

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Sany Heavy Equipment 59% Profit Jumps

Heavy construction equipment maker, Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd prepares for an initial public offering, IPO in Hong Kong after posting its 59.3% year-on-year growth net profit, 2009. The data was uncovered by United Equipment Sales, ...READ»

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Palm WebOS Sold $1.2 Billion Hewlett Parkard

Hewlett-Packard Co. signed an agreement to buy struggling smart phone maker Palm Inc. for a reported $1 billion in cash. HP pay $5.70 for every Palm common share. Palm had closed trading Wednesday at ...READ»

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Green Jobs and CO2 Emissions Report

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economics and Statistics Administration today released two new reports: one that defines and measures the size and scope of the green economy and another that looks at the ways in which the American ...READ»

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Video Broadcast Marketing Launched SustainableVirtualBiZ.com Delivers

SustainableVirtualBiZ.com launches Video Content Live -- creates, develops and delivers social media video broadcast marketing for businesses. As the Director of Internet Marketing & Broadcast Digital Media Services, Mr James ...READ»

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Top Weight Loss Diet Stocks

Research data uncovered by SustainableVirtualBiZ.com shows two-thirds (66%) of American adults are either overweight or obese, and childhood obesity is triple what it was a generation ago. Most experts now recognize obesity as a ...READ»

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Mobile Advertising Promoted Tweets Announced

Now businesses are ready to cash-in on popular microblogging tools by Twitter boasting upwards of 30-million users, as it announced its new advertisement model. As reported by SustainableVirtualBiz.com, Twitter has ...READ»

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Google Your Web Analytics

Primary Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and BING have customized their sites to accommodate the 240-million American consumers performing local searches daily. Initial results displayed on all major search engines are local ...READ»

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Experiential Marketing Digital Word of Mouth Advertising

The breakthrough findings by SustainableVirtualBiz.com defines companies are shifting budgets to gain superior return on investments from experiential Internet marketing that breaks down the barriers to powerful consumer ...READ»

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China Car Sales 63% Increase March

The Chinese Association of Automobile Manufacturers announced the countries passenger car sales jumped 63% or 1.26 million in March from a year earlier. Chinese auto manufacturers including Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (now owns ...READ»

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Study Confirms Social Media Transforming Business Advertising

New social media data released by SustainableVirtualBiz.com confirms the Internet has surpassed print newspapers and radio, as American’s primary information source. Only local and national television led the Internet as ...READ»