- Time to rethink unpaid internships: Companies benefit without paying, you do only menial jobs
We will see more interns suing companies they worked for - the pay is nothing or next to nothing. And, the work is far from important career-enhancing work, it is mostly menial work that no one else wants to do. USA Toda…
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- Ultimately, Microsoft will be the ultimate Microsoft killer
Ultimately, Microsoft's inability to do anything new (xbox and Kinect don't count) in the internet age, will be its downfall. Whatever its cash status, how long can Microsoft continue to copy other companies and try to p…
Topic: Business, Microsoft, Windows | Read more
- The age of recycled diamonds: There are $1 trillion worth of "used diamonds" in America alone
The story of "recycled diamonds" in America and how it might the hurt the global industry (as it is, high-quality rough diamonds have become more difficult to find, and more expensive to mine)is something that perhaps Ya…
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- The 'sell anything' age: A list of things you can buy on this planet
In the 'sell anything' age, you can buy and sell anything. People will get rich by selling all kinds of things. Morality doesn't matter. A few samplings from how our society is getting 'debased' by the unrelenting lure o…
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- Annals of just desserts: Court strips Copyright troll Righthaven of copyrights, to be sold to pay off its victims
Righthaven became infamous as a copyright troll that went after hapless bloggers for quoting newspaper articles and suing them for damages in court. As fate would have it, the defendant took on Righthaven and look how th…
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- Annals of social media policies gone bad: Honda pays bloggers to write about Civic and other cars
Evgeny Morozov was right all along. The internet is increasingly used more and more by big business and governments to further their interests. Big businesses paying people to write positive things about their products i…
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- How to change the world, idea #1: Seize properties of a major media house, starting with Murdock holdings
This post is about an idea for a French Revolution for the media industry in the 21st century. Left to their own devices, and considering how deeply entrencehd their reach is inside the system, media houses like Rupert M…
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- What America Sells To The World: Ironically, educational and financial services are among top exports
In 2011, America sold $2.1 trillion worth of goods and services to the world. Among the top sellers in the services segment were education and financial services. Which is ironic, considering the increasing scrutiny bein…
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- A simple guide to the KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry
Here are five questions people ask most about the KPO (knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry:
1. What is KPO?
KPO is the second wave of outsourcing. First, you had the wave of BPO (Business process Outsourcing) compa…
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- How to handle deadlines without losing your sanity
Not all deadlines are detrimental to your mental and physical health. Deadlines can be good too, you know. HowYou ask. There are a ways to ensure you get the job done and don't lose your mind during this while:
Set effe…
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- Why we are not made to work in large teams: We feel like faceless cogs in a heartless machine
Faceless cogs in a giant machine - that's what a study on teamwork discovered. The study found that workers in larger teams perform badly they think they will have less recognition and support from others - complex comma…
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- Let's just say it: there is no right age to start a company
Take all those fluff stories about young Silicon Valley entrepeneurs for what they - habitual media glorification that helps sell papers and magazines, and nothing else. Truth is: There is no right age to start a company…
Topic: Business, Startup, Study | Read more
- Don't take any lessons from Rap musicians
Rap music, the ironic business of selling a lifestyle of money, status, women and cocaine to impressionable, which has made successful businessmen out of people like Jay-Z, P. DIddy and others, has often been used as an …
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- How to change business education in India: Bhavya Sahni says make internships compulsory for MBA students
If there is at least one original thing the 'always-copying-the-Americans' Indian Business schools can do to churn out better prepared students, is to make interning with startups compulsory. Bhavya Sahni explains the be…
Topic: India, Education, Useless mba | Read more
- The real truth about Facebook Fan Pages: Only 16% actually see a piece of your content
In a presention for its so-called premium service, Facebook revelaed that when a Facebook page owner posts a piece of content to their Facebook page, and that content spams the News Feeds of that page's fans, only 16% of…
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- Annals of American Healthcare: Medibid, letting medical providers bid for your business
In a highly dysfunctional American healthcare, where medical premium costs outspeed the rise in people's incomes, comes Medibid, that lets medical service providers bid for patients' business, in the style of ebay. Read …
Topic: Internet and Websites, Healthcare, US | Read more
- Al Qaeda's real achievement: It made America insecure, stupid, and an overspender
After 9/11, Al Qaeda did not commit any more mass scale attack on America or anywhere else, but it did make America afraid, and like all afraid things, America made wholesale wrong decisions, most important of all were e…
Topic: US, War on terror, Terrorism | Read more
- How Google isn't that usable anymore: New mantra is 'copy everything, don't be simple'
As Google becomes more and more like a content provider, moving away from its origin as an elegant, efficient and effing fast indexer, Google may be losing its reputation of providing a fast and simple service. How can G…
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- iPhone financials: Apple's margin on each iPhone sold is around 55%
Apple sells an iPhone for around $650. A report says Apple's cost of Goods sold (COGS) is $293. Of this COGS, the bill of materials (e.g. touchscreen cost) for an iPhone is $200. That means Apple spends around $90 on man…
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- What is Social media Literacy and How does it Help us?
John Bell talks about Social Media Literacy, which means knowing how to use Social Media tools to bring about change. John writes about how NGOs, governments and induviduals can benefit from digital and social media lite…
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