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  • After Hacks Twitter Updates Sign-In Security

    add two-factor log-in authentication to their accounts, Twitter announced on its official blog. Usually, when you sign in to twitter.com, you have to enter your Twitter handle or email, and a password. With two-factor authentication, you'll also have to enter a six-digit code that Twitter will text to your phone each time you sign in. Twitter has come under fire in recent months after the ...

  • Lessons in Persuasion From Apple CEO Tim Cook

    Apple chief executive Tim Cook. When Cook showed up for a Congressional hearing yesterday, the stage appeared to be set for him to take a beating over Apple's financial practices. Lawmakers were outraged over evidence that Apple was keeping billions of dollars of international revenue overseas, where the company enjoys ...

  • Airdrie businessman begins serving sentence after defrauding tourists of $3.5 million

    An Airdrie businessman finally began to serve his five-year prison sentence on Wednesday after the province's highest court unanimously dismissed his appeal for defrauding 49,000 foreign tourists of $3.6 million in GST refunds.Bradley O'Neil, 57, was taken into custody after the Alberta Court of Appeal's three-judge panel dismissed all three grounds of appeal presented by defence ...

  • Italy steel businessman Riva probed for tax evasion - sources

    ROME/MILAN (Reuters) - Milan prosecutors are investigating the chairman of Italian steel group Riva for tax evasion and police have seized 1.2 billion euros of cash from a tax haven, judicial sources said on Wednesday. Emilio Riva, whose ...

  • Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Reaches Highest Level in More Than a Decade

    optimism about the potential of entrepreneurship is very much alive. The percentage of U.S. adults in the nascent stages of entrepreneurship, either in the process of starting a business or a new business owner, reached almost 13 percent in 2012, up slightly ...


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Bamboozled [DVD]

Bamboozled [DVD]

Spike Lee may veer into overstatement when he has the central character of Bamboozled, an outwardly successful, but inwardly self-hating, African-American TV executive, recite in voice-over narration at the beginning of the film the dictionary definition of "satire": "a literary work in which human vice or folly is ridiculed or attacked scornfully." I guess it just goes to show that L ... ...

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  • Small Business Recognition Month

    GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- The month of May is national small business month. Experts say more small businesses are coming to Grand Junction which is helping create a better economy.Tim Silkey, a local small business man and navy veteran, decided to create not one, but three small businesses to keep him busy. "People starting their own business is a good thing, it encourages growth in the ...

  • Exploring the Critical Components of Web Content for Your Small Business

    NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --As a small business owner, you can never underestimate the importance of customer loyalty and retention; both can be considered the backbone for ...

  • Billie Sol Estes Businessman and notorious conman

    Billie Sol Estes was a flamboyant Texan huckster who became one of the most notorious men in America in 1962 when he was accused of looting a federal crop subsidy programme. His name synonymous with Texas-sized schemes, greed and corruption, he reigned in the state as king of conmen for nearly 50 years. Time put him on its cover, calling him "a welfare-state Ponzi a bundle of ...

  • How to Capitalize When You Produce a Viral Infographic

    Everyone who has any stake in creating virtual content, whether developing it, marketing it, producing it or simply writing about it, has one dream: That their content goes viral. Within minutes, your video, blog or picture is seen by thousands of people. In a day, you’ve notched up over a million views. But when fortune blesses you with this bounty, how do you react? What do you do? ...

  • Youre the Boss Blog What It Takes to Start a Company Sleeping in a Van

    Dealflicks — "it's a Priceline for movie tickets" — are traveling the country and living out of a van in an effort to sign up new customers (we ...

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