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The countdown has started to the Paris climate conference at the end of the year and this time, there will be a binding deal between the parties to cut emissions, according to Mark Kenber, chief executive at The Climate Group.

“Unlike previous meetings, Paris is not the end of the process, it’s more of a signal on where the world is on read »

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Everyone hates YouTube’s preroll ads. You want to watch an old Beatles clip but it’s held hostage by a preroll ad for Toyota, of which you are forced to watch five seconds. It’s possibly the longest five seconds in all of advertising, at least to the viewer. And that’s because advertisers typically run normal TV spots, none of which are designed read »

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Can a professional athlete (or anyone) work for a few years and retire with a six figure income for life?

They can if they follow the thin blue line*. Not just follow, but calculate, track, and almost obsess over the blue line. Further, it’s not just athletes than can create lifetime income and better their read »

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Iceland’s Thor Bjorgolfsson was on the brink of financial ruin. Instead he managed to hold onto key assets and bought time to pay off creditors. Here is the story of how he negotiated his way back into the billionaires club. read »

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Alibaba, China’s biggest online commerce company and the world’s fastest growing e-commerce marketplace, officially launched their Trade Assurance Program during ASD Market Week, the largest, most comprehensive trade show of its kind that welcomes over 45K attendees bi-annually. Currently taking place in Las read »

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At its core purpose, marketing is supposed to raise awareness to increase business. Too often however, I observe Chief “Marketing” Officers engaged in campaigns and activities designed merely to do the former without true execution on the latter. This needs to end. read »

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BY AMIR BASIRI – Among Obama’s miscalculations is the misplaced belief that the Iranian regime has common interests with the U.S. and can eventually become an ally of the West in establishing peace and stability in the region. read »

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Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) are an ideal material for making light fixtures. They are thin, incredibly efficient, can be fashioned into a variety of shapes and can even be integrated into counter tops or stairs.

They also happen to be incredibly difficult to mass manufacture economically. Commercialization has been read »

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Professional social networks such as LinkedIn are as important to our economy as banks and capital markets. Those network reduces risks in our economy by offering transparency into the job market. read »

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Ordinarily I write about bringing out the talent in other people, but for many years I focused on customer experience and marketing. It bothers me that companies don’t do more to bring out the best not only in their customers, but also in their employees.

Much of this failing comes from a short-sighted, outdated view of what marketing read »

New Post 56 minutes ago

On Monday, the San Mateo, CA-based distributed solar company filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona alleging that the Salt River Project (SRP), a utility based in Tempe, AZ, violated antitrust laws.

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If any musician can get away with trademarking her lyrics, it’s Taylor Swift. She’s young and audacious enough to try it, successful enough to be taken seriously (her latest album, “1989,” has broken 4 million copies, a huge number in this time of Spotify and Pandora) and savvy enough to set a new precedent for personal brand building. read »

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Americans, it is said, are living in the midst of an information revolution. Every facet of commerce and culture is being transformed by internet-driven technologies that greatly increase the speed of transactions while affording users unprecedented insight and options. But revolutions aren’t tidy affairs — some read »