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Business Culture

BodeTree, The Financial Tool For People Who Hate Finance, Launches An Education Platform For Small Business Owners

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON BodeTree launched early last year to help small business owners better understand and make sense of their financial data. The startup has been attempting to make the absurdly tedious world of financial software fun, or at least less crappy, pitching itself as a “financial tool for people who hate finance.” As Sarah wrote at the time, BodeTree syncs with QuickBooks for data importing, but differentiates itself from similar tools by providing…

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Nine Strategies Successful People Use to Overcome Stress

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Heidi Grant Halvorson Feeling stressed? Of course you are. You have too much on your plate, deadlines are looming, and people are counting on you. You are under a lot of pressure—so much that at times, you suspect the quality of your work suffers for it. This is life in the modern workplace. The difference between those who are successful and those who aren’t is not whetheror not you suffer from stress,…

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Business Culture

Inside Adobe’s New Silicon Slope Headquarters

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As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN HURST Deep in Utah’s high desert, Adobe is putting the finishing touches on its latest outpost — a low-slung but stylish 280,000-square-foot compound.Sadly, the circumstances surrounding the building sound more mysterious than their reality, even with the NSA’s new data center as a close neighbor. The location in the south suburbs of Salt Lake City is an up-and-coming region for tech business sometimes called “Silicon Slope.” Adobe’s new campus will operate as the…

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China adds 51 million internet users in one year, mobile numbers increase by 18.1 percent

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith China’s internet dealt with 564 million users during 2012, increasing its user base by 10 percent. Despite continued efforts to monitor residents and restrict access to subversive content, these substantial gains were apparently driven by mobile internet access, with the number of Chinese users tapping into the web from phones and tablets rising by 18.1 percent, now totaling 420 million. That’s 75 percent of all internet users.

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America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’

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As reported on The Verge. By Laura June Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. “If you want to get…

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Culture

Search Answer: When Will the Sun Hit the Beach?

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Daniel M. Russell Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can’t get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution—using whatever search technology and methodology fits the bill. The solution isn’t as simple as you might think…As is always the case with a question like this, you’ve got…

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Application Cloud Culture

Amazon’s AutoRip Automatically Downloads Free MP3s for CDs Purchased from Amazon

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Thorin Klosowski Amazon launched its new AutoRip service today. The service works with the Amazon MP3 store to give you free MP3 copies of CDs you’ve purchased from Amazon dating all the way back to 1998. The AutoRip feature is turned on automatically, so if you purchase a CD from Amazon it will automatically download the MP3 version to the Amazon Cloud Player. When you log into your Cloud Player, any CDs you’ve…

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Culture

Bill Gates Is $7 Billion Richer Than He Was A Year Ago

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Julie Bort He’s the second-richest. You read that right. Despite his considerable, praiseworthy charity work, the Microsoft cofounder is getting wealthier. In 2012, he wound up $7 billion ahead with a net worth of $63.4 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index published today. That’s not to say that he isn’t giving a lot of money away. He is. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is working with a $36.2 billion endowment, most of it from Gates.…

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Culture

Teen Brags On Facebook About Drunk Driving, Gets Arrested

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Police made an example out of a teenager from Oregon who boasted about driving drunk on Facebook. “Drivin drunk… classic  but whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry.  ,” wrote the clueless 18-year-old. According to local news channel KGW, two people tipped the officers via Facebook about the post. After inspecting the most-likely-profusely-sweating/hungover teen’s car, the damage on his vehicle matched that of two other vehicles hit earlier that New Year’s morning. And, with their…

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Article Culture

Understand the Hidden Costs of Your Resolutions Before Starting In on Them

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As reported on LifeHacker. by  Alan Henry Some of the most common New Year’s resolutions people make are to decrease their debt (or get out entirely) and to lose weight or get healthy. Before you embark on either of those, make sure that the other isn’t getting in the way and you’re not spending money losing weight. You can have both, you just have to be careful. Over at US News Money, Geoff Williams explains that many…

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