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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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BP, Arco Stations to Get Blink Electric Vehicle Fast Chargers

ECOtality announced this week that 45 BP and Arco gas stations in Arizona, California, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington will play host to the company's new 480-volt Blink fast chargers. READ»

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Yerba Mate: the Wonder Drink for Business & Social Good

Guayaki's goal is to create 1,000 jobs and restore 200,000 acres of rainforest by the year 2020. To do so, it will have to grow by at least 25% annually for the next decade.READ»

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Statoil, Bio Architecture Lab Team Up on Seaweed-to-Ethanol Project

In the race to develop better biofuels, no self-respecting oil company wants to be left behind. In recent years, we've seen Shell, Exxon, BP, and Chevron invest hundreds of millions in biofuel technology. Statoil, one of the world's ...READ»

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Urban Farming Gets a Swanky Boost from Organic Wine-Maker, Bonterra Vineyards

Bonterra Vineyards and Growing Power partner up to support healthy foods for all.READ»

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Cause Marketing Gets a Lift From "Superman," OfficeMax

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a joint venture between Participant Media and one of the country's biggest office supply retailers!READ»

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Seventh Generation's Jeffrey Hollender Explains Why He's Working With Walmart

Seventh Generation teaming up with Walmart is the most unlikely of alliances, considering that Seventh Generation's co-founder has said in the past that "hell would freeze over before Seventh Generation would ever do business with Walmart." But at the same time, the partnership has been a long time coming, Jeffrey Hollender explains to FastCompany.com.READ»

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Algae Fuel's Pioneers

Research into biofuels made from single-celled organisms is attracting scientists, entrepreneurs, and even Big Oil companies such as ExxonMobil. But some observers question whether the technology is scalable and affordable.READ»

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AOL's Screechy Tween Video Site, Cambio, Debuts Tuesday

AOL's been having a tough half-decade or so, but are looking to turn things around with a new content partnership with none other than the tween obsession of the moment, the Jonas brothers. READ»

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Ford Is Giving Away 5,000 EV Charging Stations - There's Just One Catch

Here's one easy way to encourage consumers to adopt electric vehicles: offer them free in-home vehicle charging stations. The auto giant Ford announced a partnership with Coulomb Technologies this week to provide nearly 5,000 free ...READ»

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Tesla Troubles: Model S Could Be Delayed, Elon Musk Is Out of Cash

  Is Tesla Motors in trouble? Earlier this month, Tesla surprised us all with news that the startup is teaming up with Toyota to work on electric vehicles. As part of the deal, we learned, Toyota will also buy $50 million of ...READ»

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Why Facebook Should Acquire Location-Based SN, FourSquare

The rumor mill has been churning ever since Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, flew to New York to visit Foursquare CEO Dennis Crow, reports TechCrunch. The meeting hints at a potential acquisition of FourSquare...READ»

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Cleantech Open Alumni Rake in $65 Million in First Months of 2010

The Cleantech Open, the world's largest cleantech business competition, has helped launch successful startups like Cool Earth Solar, Adura Technologies, and BuildFast. Now Cleantech Open alums are getting more love than ever as the ...READ»

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Business Marketing Joint Ventures

The term B2B or business to business is used to describe commerce interaction between two corporate entities. Often it results in joint ventures or mutual alliance formed by two business entities with the objective of improving ...READ»

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Salesforce.com to Become Platform Juggernaut, Says CEO

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, talks about Salesforce's latest moves to build into the new Internet platform with a partnership with Google that'll be announced on Monday. He talks some smack about existing enterprise vendors ...READ»

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Congressman Markey Worried About Advertising

Representative Ed Markey has been a Congressman (D-MA) since 1976, and is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, so I wanted to get his feedback on a range of issues. This is part of our trip to ...READ»

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What’s Behind All the Video Conferencing Partnerships?

The recent news of Polycom’s (Nasdaq: PLCM) partnership with Juniper (NYSE: JNPR)—which GigaOm suggests is in response to Cisco’s acquisition of Tandberg—got me thinking of the playing together in the sandbox analogy. ...READ»

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New Logo Theme Launch and 1% Market captured by Xtravo OS.

The New logo theme has been adapted by Jawoco.Com which actually has ".Com" colored in Teal Green. Jawoco.Com was suppose to make this move because Answers.Com logo was resembling very much with Jawoco.Com.Xtravo OS creating a huge ...READ»

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Leveraging Strategic Partnerships

Creating strategic alliances has become an invaluable practice for many public accounting firms regardless of their size or the scope of their services.  Such alliances or partnerships can take several different forms—all of ...READ»

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Steven Sears Attorney - Asset Protection, Estate Planning

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RecycleBank and eBay Use Carrot Instead of Stick to Encourage Recycling

In most cases, we use threats to force people to recycle--witness San Francisco's controversial new mandatory composting law that slaps a fine on anyone who fails to comply. But what if it was possible to get people to recycle by ...READ»

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Michael Eckerman

Either-or order Used in the context of general equities. See: Alternative order. London Metal Exchange (LME) A market for trading base metals, where tradedoptions contracts are available against the underlyingfutures ...READ»

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conception de stand d'exposition et de la construction en Chine YOHO EXPO

YOHO EXPO est une société de services professionnels offrant des expositions en Chine, design d'exposition offrant stand, construction, bâtiment, la configuration, l'installation et du démontage service.If votre entreprise dispose ...READ»

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conception de stand d'exposition et de la construction en Chine YOHO EXPO

YOHO EXPO est une société de services professionnels offrant des expositions en Chine, design d'exposition offrant stand, construction, bâtiment, la configuration, l'installation et du démontage service.If votre entreprise dispose ...READ»

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Dare to Share?

Investing in a new Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure is a multi-billion dollar undertaking.READ»