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Kiva and Visa Partner Up, Extend Into Gulf Coast Region

Kiva, fresh off its expansion into higher education loans and one year after its entrance into the U.S. market, is moving full speed ahead to help Gulf Coast entrepreneurs recover from devastating setbacks.READ»

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MacArthur Genius Professor Dawdy and Her Plans for New Orleans

Shannon Lee gives Fast Company the scoop on where the $500,000 will go.READ»

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Swizzle Sticks: The Ultimate Affordable (Not to Mention Adorable) Promo Tools

The swizzle stick--part branding platform, part beverage accessory--ensures that no drink goes unadorned.READ»

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A Generation of Emerging Designers Who Design With Purpose

This emerging generation of designers wants to do more than create handsome and functional products. It’s out to protect the environment, improve health, reform education, and empower communities.READ»

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"The Wire" and "Treme"'s David Simon, Others Win $500k MacArthur Genius Grants

Will New Orleans be a winner, too?READ»

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How Sewage Could Save New Orleans

It sounds like a joke: New Orleans, that most unlucky of cities, could be protected from hurricanes and wetland degradation by ... sewage?READ»

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iFIve: Cisco, Google and Intel Go Shopping, IPCC in Spotlight, the State of the Gulf, Airline Innovation, Apple DNA Found

The Inn o'Vation. It's more than a cosy holiday getaway, you know.READ»

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The Post-Katrina Demographic Shift: Older, Whiter, Wealthier

A Nielsen study finds that New Orleans has lost diversity since hurricane Katrina.READ»

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City of Bangkok: Social Unrest, Poverty, Dazzling Nightlife

Can we ignore violence and forgive urban vice in the name of the cool factor?READ»

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Hear This: UK SoundMap Creates Audio Landscape

Back when Greg J. Smith and Max Ritts launched their Toronto Sound Ecology project, for which they hiked the city and recorded its sounds for an interactive map, we asked if anyone had heard of any other similar audio tours. Turns ...READ»

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iFive: BP Delays Cap Test, Apple Finds Allies, Microsoft's 12th Man, WikiLeaks Details, Google Thanks Fiber Fans

While you were sleeping, innovation was putting on a jaunty little cap to wear with its oil-colored capelet, eschewing anything nerdlike such as black T-shirts, and leaving home without its British citizenship.1. What is a disaster ...READ»

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A Gym on Steroids, Designed by MVRDV and ADEPT

It's a fitness center but also a theater, a health spa, an exhibition space, a study hall, a place to eat, and a Zen center.READ»

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America Gets Earnest With Social Change Theme at Venice Architecture Biennale

A preview of some of the projects which will be featured at the Biennale's American pavilion this summer.READ»

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Online Privacy: What If Your Valuable, Personal Online Data Got Old and Died?

Online privacy is a hot potato. VC notables Venrock, Kleiner Perkins, and Accel Partners are all betting big bucks on privacy startups. "Privacy is a big issue, and it's going to get bigger because people realize it can be used ...READ»

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BP's Hired Guns Block Journalists From Talking to Disaster Workers

BP manages to create more bad PR in a surprising new way.READ»

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Did a Piece of Deepwater Horizon Wash Up on a Florida Beach? [Updated]

Over the past few months, the BP oil disaster has littered Gulf Coast beaches with both dead wildlife and tar balls. Now, in a Lost-like turn of events, a piece of an oil storage tank from the Deepwater Horizon rig may have washed up on Florida's Panama City Beach.READ»

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Justice Department Begins Criminal Investigation Into BP Oil Disaster

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating BP for any criminal and civil wrongdoing related to the thousands of gallons of crude oil still gushing into the Gulf of Mexico following a April 20 rupture at the Deepwater Horizon well, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced at a news conference in New Orleans today.READ»

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Dead in the Water: A Floating Cemetery for Hong Kong

A concept building gives a whole new meaning to burial at sea.READ»

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Sustainable Landscape Project Takes Root

Greener pastures for a Super Bowl village, a black history museum, and a wealth of other land developments in the United States and beyondREAD»

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Use Bundle to Snoop on Your Neighbors' Finances

A new Web-finance tool helps you learn from a virtual peek inside your neighbors' credit-card bills.READ»

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Back from Travels and a Free Whitepaper

I’m back after travels to Spain, Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Orlando. Throughout the trips, I came across many exciting mobile initiatives and am reminded how much I love the mobile industry. Everyday marketers are ...READ»

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Tech Terrors and Triumphs Are Stuff of 2010 Pulitzers

The 2010 Pulitzers will go down as the year of the Washington Post--the venerable paper won four awards. The New York Times took home three. But the real winner was technology--both as a subject and as a way to deliver news. The ...READ»

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A Day Late, A Dollar Short

Are you letting business get away because of your processes and people?READ»

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Pim Techamuanvivit , Food Blogger at Chez Pim

The Media Pim Techamuanvivit Food Blogger Chez Pim For all the folks out there stuck in the real world of cubicles and water coolers, Pim Techamuanvivit lives in a dream world where food reigns. "Food has ...READ»

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Paul Zombory, a Success Story

Paul Zombory enrolled at Clearwater Academy in 1998. Paul was in second grade then and one of the first students to start at CAI when the doors opened at the new Feldman Campus on Drew St. Prior to CAI Paul attended two of the ...READ»