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Meet The League Of Extraordinary Women: 60 Influencers Who Are Changing The World
The previously untold story of how an unprecedented network of...
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Even if you haven’t heard of the Artefact, you’ve seen their work. A hired gun for design by companies like Google, Apple and Amazon, their...
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Client: I can’t open your document…
Me: Do you have Adobe Reader? You need it to read PDF documents.
Client: PDF…? How do you spell that?
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“For those of you who don’t know about Twitter, you send out tweets to ‘tweeples’ so everybody who’s on Twitter is a tweeple.”
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Platform lets SMBs offer free public wifi in exchange for user activityIt may now be possible to get free wifi from vending machines in Japan,...
What the top 1% tax bracket looks like since 1975.
Outsourcing the smart phone market is estimated to become a $5.6B business by 2015. Why? Just look at this (jobs) trend.
Requests for programmers who write code for Apple’s iOS platform rose 20 percent between the first and second quarters of this year, according to Elance, a Mountain View (Calif.) broker that matches outsourcers such as MoFirst with those who want to create apps. Demand for programmers with Android skills rose by 15 percent, while developer requests for Research in Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry devices increased by 3 percent, according to Elance.
Mark Bittman talks about the politics of food.
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Who knew that there’s a lot of politics in the food system from subsidies to lobbying? Blah. The food system in the U.S. is at the intersection of environment, income disparity and politics. Very interesting.
On the other hand, there’s a good side to the junk mail industry. They’re one of the few large industry that’s keeping the USPS alive. Until the economy tanked. And the use of technology via social media, email takes off..
Here are some scary statistics:
- 9,960 pieces of junk mail are printed, shipped, delivered and disposed of in the U.S. every 3 seconds.
- 100 million trees are cut down in the U.S. each year to make the paper for junk mail.
Luckily, there are ways to reduce the amount of junk mail you receive, so do something nice for your mailbox and the planet.
Slowdown could affect exports.
Still have ways to go.
Carbon labels have yet to become as widely recognised by consumers as other eco-labels, however. A survey carried out in 2010 by Which?, a British consumer group, found that just a fifth of British shoppers recognised the carbon footprint label, compared with recognition rates of 82% for Fairtrade and 54% for organic labelling.
Very interesting.
China’s insatiable demand for commodities has prompted a tripling in the price of mining truck tires, making them more expensive than a Porsche 911 Carrera S type or a condominium in Miami.
Interesting trend.
Two websites, yourtango.com and Forbes Woman, recently polled 625 of their readers and found that 75 percent of them would not marry a man who was unemployed.
