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Why You Should Start a Company in ... Atlanta

It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. In this series, we talk to leading figures in ...READ»

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Alton Brown's Essential Kitchen Gadgets

The cookbook author and Food Network star shows off the gadgets in his kitchen that make for some good eats.READ»

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Is Groupon Too Good to Be True?

The service established itself as a hub for service-seeking bargain-hunters, but is it becoming a haven for bait-and-switch hucksters? CEO Andrew Mason tells Fast Company how he's responding to new complaints.READ»

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GE's Energy Treasure Hunt Saves Roosevelt Hospital $2.1 Million

GE thinks it can find excess cash your organization didn't realize it had through the ecomagination Treasure Hunt program, which aims to uncover energy savings at companies, universities, and even entire cities.READ»

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Re: May 2010

The Mullen Strategy As a former old-economy New Yorker now living in the refreshingly new-economy Bay Area, I'm often struck by the huge gulf of understanding and opportunity between the two. I'm also constantly inspired by the ...READ»

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What’s a Duck to Do?

Pre-1992, even loyal customers struggled to recall the insurance company’s name - the “American Family Life Assurance Company.” But today, customer and non-customers alike, indeed anyone in the U.S. or Japan who watches ...READ»

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Fast Facts: June 2010

IN BLOOM The rose is the traditional birth flower for June. It's also the state flower of Georgia, Iowa, New York, and North Dakota. IN VERSE "To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June." -- ...READ»

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The Idea Lab: A Look at Stanford's d.school

The new home of Stanford University's d.school puts the institute's philosophy of creativity and collaboration into smart glass, steel, and concrete.READ»

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New Urbanism for the Apocalypse

Has the New Urbanism outlived its original purpose? The movement's charismatic founder, Andrés Duany, seems to think so. Last week's 18th annual Congress for the New Urbanism in Atlanta should have been an unalloyed triumph for Duany ...READ»

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Tip for Construction Equipment Rental Jobs: NEW EPA EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS

by Michael Crouch New regulations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on effluent limitations for the construction industry are now in effect. The final regulations establishing Clean Water Act (CWA) technology-based ...READ»

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What the iPad Is Missing (No, It's Not a Camera)

With the iPad's messy type skills, Stephen Coles wonders if Apple cares about typography anymore.READ»

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Current Health Insurance Reform Issues

No sooner had President Obama signed the last piece of the health insurance reform package on March 30 than he hit the road, traveling to a number of states to sell the public on the new health care law of the land. On their Easter/Passover recess break, many members of Congress were engaged in their own READ»

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The New Bottom Line

Measuring our "water footprint."READ»

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Proto-PC Inventor Henry Edward (Ed) Roberts, Inspiration for Microsoft, 1941-2010

Ed Roberts, creator of an early precursor to the PC, was cited by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as an inspiration for the founding of Microsoft. Roberts died today, at age 68.READ»

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A Is for App: How Smartphones, Handheld Computers Sparked an Educational Revolution

As smartphones and handheld computers move into classrooms worldwide, we may be witnessing the start of an educational revolution. How technology could unleash childhood creativity -- and transform the role of the teacher.READ»

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YOHO EXPO-The rivalry of stand design and fitting industry has been becoming more fierce than ever before in China,overseas exhibitors did not know to much about the standfitting material selections years ago,they just held one idea ...READ»

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Meet Cody: Your Future Non-Terrifying Health-Care Helper Robot

Georgia Tech is working on cutting edge domestic and health-care machines as part of its Healthcare Robotics effort, and this device, dubbed Cody, would seem to be a genuine glimpse of the near future.READ»

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Health Care Reform March 15 2010

Week of March 15, 2010The White House last week continued to rail against rising health insurance premiums to help build popular support for his health care reform package. But the effort to focus the blame for rising costs on ...READ»

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Would You Drink A Sexually Enhancing, Libido Boosting, Great Tasting, Energy Beverage?

The Pur3x Designer Beverage Club launches the world's first sexually enhancing, libido boosting, designer energy beverage. Loaded with some of the most powerful stimulants that been studied for decades, this product is sure to be an absolute sensation!READ»

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How Much Longer Can Shopping Malls Survive?

There are dead malls, and then there is Dixie Square. The suburban Chicago mall made famous by The Blues Brothers--who destroyed it on-screen in a spectacular car chase--had already closed by the time the film was shot in 1979. It's ...READ»

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Southeast Venture Conference - Northern Virginia and Washington DC IT Investors Event!

The upcoming 2010 Southeast Venture Conference will host some of the most dynamic high-growth companies in the Southeast US, Feb 24-25, 2010 at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Northern Virginia.READ»

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Owing to multiple blizzards in Washington, Congress started its President's Day recess a full week early and READ»

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Nuclear Plant Pre-Bailout: Obama's Dumbest Move Yet?

Nuclear power is not necessary. It is not sensible. It opens great risks for small returns that can be much more easily achieved in other ways. It is a gift to the terrorists, a robbery from the taxpayers, a diversion of resources away from better and far more proven technologies that could meet all of our energy needs safely, and a serious threat to the well-being of future generations.READ»

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Obama Goes Nuclear With $8 Billion in Loans

We knew something like this was coming. Obama said it in his State of the Union address: "To create more of these clean-energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives, and that means building a new generation ...READ»

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