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An extensive write-up about Zoho CRM on financial-planning.com

It is always great to know that your service is sought-after, used, reviewed and recommended by other users, businesses and people. And when we came across the detailed write-up and recommendation to ‘Take a look at Zoho CRM’ in a recent article titled ‘ Special Report: Your Practice Management Questions Answered ‘ on financial-planning.com, we were thrilled

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The end is nigh for 23andMe?

Over at Gene Expression, Razib suggests that trouble lies ahead for personal genomics company 23andMe. Although I’m generally a bit of a cheerleader for the Mountain View-based startup, I must admit the signs over the past year or so haven’t been good: two rounds of lay-offs, the departure of co-founder Linda Avey, and the apparent deployment of $4M from a recent funding round to pay back a loan from fellow co-founder Anne Wojcicki. Razib also notes some anonymous employee reviews of the comp…

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Brandon’s Secret Recipe for Product Launches

The Secret Recipe for Success with Product Launches Guest Post by Brandon Hartman Can I share a secret with you? I have a marketing technique that, when used properly, can generate an ENTIRE YEAR’S worth of sales in 10 days or less! This secret marketing strategy will create a tidal wave of sales, all while increasing your brand and position within your market.

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Class-Action Lawsuit Accuses Yelp of Extortion | Discoblog

Yelp, the popular website that offers reviews of local businesses, has just been bitten by Cats and Dogs, a veterinary hospital that is accusing the site of extortion. In a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this week, the Long Beach pet hospital claims that Yelp tried to get it to cough up $300 a month for a 12-month advertising commitment in exchange for tweaking possible bad reviews of the clinic

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The Coming Home Seminar with Ed Dale

It’s Monday evening here in Australia and I’ll be flying out in the morning to head home. I was in Melbourne for the weekend to attend Ed Dale’s Coming Home Seminar

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ShoeMoney System Review: Don’t Waste Your ShoeMoney.

The ShoeMoney system is a program that: …walks you through step by step on how to make money on the internet. But it’s much different than anything anyone has ever seen. Instead of talking about theories on how to make money we actually do it, step by step

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Criticism of IPCC Continues

American media are still missing in action on the controversy currently embroiling the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition to the criticisms related to glaciers and natural disasters, the IPCC came under fire last week for a statement in its 2007 report that said 40 percent of the Amazon is vulnerable to even a small change in…

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Audit Notes: Reuters Withdraws; Leaving Las Vegas; Reregulation, etc.

–Talking Points Memo had a nice catch of Reuters pulling a story headlined “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” after the White House pointed out “errors of fact.” Reuters straightforwardly explains why here. — The Las Vegas Sun, via Calculated Risk, provides interesting local reporting from the heart of the housing bust: In the last…

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New Reviews: Nick Jonas, Lil Wayne, Corinne Bailey Rae, More …

This week in New Reviews , Nick Jonas takes a break from the JoBros and teams up with the Administration for Who I Am, which earned a three-star review from Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield. Like his work with his Brothers, Who I Am finds …

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Sustainability Can Drive Innovation, but Only Through Disruption

This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics series. All of a sudden, companies are waking up to the fact that sustainability can drive innovation.

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Get Ready To Be a Changemaker

We are on the cusp of a fundamental change — a worldwide change in the skills everyone needs to succeed, in the nature of organizations, and in how businesses must be led. The agricultural revolution set up a pattern that still exists today. A small surplus meant that only a small elite could create culture and control resources

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When does “Cash for Refrigerators” start in your state?

(Photo: Getty Images) The State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program , also known as ” Cash for Refrigerators ,” has officially started, but whether you can get a rebate yet depends on where you live. The program is being funded with $300 million in federal stimulus money, but each state is operating its own program and has different start dates, budgets, and rules.

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Target-Rich Environment

We’re all for flood-the-zone coverage of the budget, so a tip of The Audit’s green eyeshade to The Wall Street Journal, which unfurls the story in full glory, with charts, breakdowns, analysis for individual federal departments and agencies, plus, for no extra charge, a handy Q & A on what it all means for taxpayers. The package is here….

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Can Management Oaths Be Made Less Mockable?

King of financial bloggers Felix Salmon recently did a little mocking (gentle, by his standards) of the Global Business Oath of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. He was especially amused by the last two parts of the oath: 7. I will actively engage in efforts to finding solutions to critical social and environmental issues that are central to my enterprise, and   8

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Working at Home in Pajamas Sounds A Lot Like Being Laid Off

After reporting on the phenomenon of start-ups as virtual workplaces, telecommuting, the rise of the four-day work-week and other cost cutting workplace innovations made possible thanks in part to technological things like Google and the Internet and electricity, Inc. magazine is conducting its own experiment in the virtual workplace

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The Register reviews the Kindle DX

The Register, out of the UK, got its hands on a Kindle DX and did a 4 page review in their usual excellent style. Here are some points I found especially interesting: the DX has a lower pixels per inch figure, but it is not apparent when comparing directly to a Kindle 2. The DX changes pages faster than the 2

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Volcker Pushed Back

When Wall Street doesn’t like something, one thing is certain: the public will hear about it. The pushback on the Volcker rule, which would ban proprietary trading at deposit-taking financial institutions and limit bank size, has been fast, furious, voluminous, and, some accounts would have you believe, fatal. A news service called dealReporter created buzz last night reporting…

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Cars.com Reviews the 2010 Volkswagen GTI – KickingTires

All you need to whet your appetite for Cars.com reviewer Kelsey Mays’ review of the 2010 Volkswagen GTI is that at one point he compares the sport compact to a “grunge guitarist with a haircut and a Men’s Wearhouse suit. …

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The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy

The data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy seemed like a really great idea when it was first proposed. But its rapid acceptance was in fact a sign of how worried we were about the real value of the information systems we had built at such great expense. What looks like a logical progression is actually a desperate cry for help

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10 Ways to Build Social Media Expertise Using Personal Web Projects

When Timex sponsored a Twitter party in late 2009, it leaned on the social media expertise of Stefania Pomponi Butler and her partners in Clever Girls Collective to deliver a conversation that would engage women consumers with the Timex brand. But Stefania’s social media smarts weren’t born from a corporate campaign or formal training: this former marketing pro got her start in social media by blogging about life as an urban mom

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