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  • Google spending $7mn to fight child pornography Google spending $7mn to fight child pornography

    LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. ...

  • Baffled Liverpool to tell Suarez to stop Madrid pronouncements and make transfer request

    Fed up with their controversial striker Luis Suarez's almost daily public pronouncements on his future, Liverpool is reportedly set to lay down the law and demand that Suarez put in an official transfer request if he remains determined to leave for Real Madrid. The Uruguay international, currently playing in the Confederations Cup in Brazil, has turned what promises to be this summer's biggest ...

  • Microsoft says it freed millions of computers from criminal botnet

    Reuters © People visit the Microsoft booth at the 2013 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei June 4, 2013. REUTERS/Pichi ...

  • Ad Agency As Incubator Young And Rubicons Spark Plug Program Turns One

    David Sable, CEO of Young & Rubicon and Creator of Spark Plug (photo courtesy of Young & Rubicon) I spoke this week with David Sable, Global CEO of Young & Rubicon, in New York, about Y&R Spark Plug incubator program, his personal brainchild, launched a year ...

  • 6 Key Marketing Dos and Donts For Your Startup

    Image via UniversalWeather.com Marketing is everything these days. You can have the best technology, but if customers don't know you exist, or they don't know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. Yet I see many entrepreneurs that focus on the basics of marketing too little and too late. They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate ...

Movie Review

Garden State [DVD]

Garden State [DVD]

Zack Braff looks like an ordinary guy, which is intrinsic to his appeal. As J.D., the central character of the often-surreal TV hospital comedy Scrubs, he has grounded himself as an identifiable everyguy who spends much of his life, like many of us do, confounded by the world aroun ... ...

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  • The 10 Best Cities For Young Entrepreneurs

    NerdWallet tallied the top metro areas by population to determine this (surprising!) list of the best cities for young founders. With an equal weighting of loan data, cost of living, business activity, education and income, they’ve crunched the numbers to tally an overall score for 42 major cities. These 10 came out on top—and (shocklingly!) the Alley and the Valley are nowhere to be ...

  • UPSVoice How To Become A Carbon Neutral Business

    It seems like there are as many ways for a business to "go green" as there are businesses themselves. From sourcing organic products to electric delivery vehicles, one change can make a business green to a certain degree, but how can you ever know exactly how environmentally sustainable your business really is? When are you truly green? Striving to be carbon neutral is one way to ...

  • Best And Worst Balancing Acts In Hollywood Film And TV Production History

    franchises and other hits, made waves this week with a major executive hire. The company, launched more than a decade ago by Thomas Tull, is bringing longtime Warner Bros. television chief Bruce Rosenblum in to steer Legendary's push into TV and digital production. (An interesting video interview with Tull about his approach to the movie business is posted ...

  • Review World War Z Lacks Bite

    Box Office Take: Quality aside (read the actual review for that verdict), the film is in trouble mostly because of its budget. Ironically, had the film come in at its original $125 million price tag, Paramount and company would have been fine. Brad Pitt is of course a big draw here and especially overseas, so it's not impossible to presume that a 3D zombie action film starring Brad Pitt ...

  • Coca-Cola Leveraging Social To Drive Leadership in Social Media Marketing

    Coca-Cola.FM and live-streaming music events, Coca-Cola has shown the world how revolutionary they can be and how this type of marketing evokes emotional, long-lasting customer engagement. ...

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