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Whether you’re a retailer, a fashion blogger or a personal stylist, if your small business touches upon the fashion industry in any way, look out. A new trend some are calling “geek chic” should be on your radar.
Forget about the fall from popularity of wearables like Google Glass. From motorized Read More

One of the things I like when selecting a book from the review pile is that I really don’t know what to expect. By choosing to live in South Africa, I am not exposed to the players in the field of American business, and therefore I cannot prejudge a book by name alone.
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Today’s consumers are all about instant gratification. But most workers still have to wait two weeks between paychecks.
That means, at any given time, they have likely done hours of work over the last week or two and have yet to see the fruits of that labor.
That’s where Ram Palaniappan saw a hol Read More

For years, companies have been working on different alternatives to eliminate plastic bottles. But none of them have been able to really take over that market.
The standard metal bottles can hold a lot of water and be refilled over and over again. But they aren’t very attractive. And while looks a Read More

If you’re like most people, you probably think that emotions should leave the room when key decisions need to be made. But, sometimes your gut instinct pokes and prods at your reasoning until you either listen to it — or do a good enough job pouring over reams of data to justify ignoring it.
When Read More

Living in a small town can help or hurt small businesses. But when you find a niche that needs filling, you just might strike gold.
For example, the Bun Festival, held each May on a tiny, one square-mile island near Hong Kong, has been growing exponentially each year.
The small town of Cheung Cha Read More

Emily Weiss is one of the women who was unhappy with the beauty industry. But instead of getting discouraged, she decided to do something about it.
After spending some time in fashion publishing, Weiss started Into the Gloss, an online platform for information about all things beauty related. The Read More

It’s no secret that this is the year to ramp up your YouTube channel and video content, and now there is another incentive to get stared. Recently, YouTube announced that a new version of product listing ads is on the way with an initiative called YouTube TrueView for Shopping. Read More

Wouldn’t it be nice if you had more control over what private information is collected about you?
Google is rolling out two new improvements to their privacy and security tools that will do just that by putting more control over your information into your own hands.
Users now have access to a per Read More

Electronic signatures are as valid for business contracts as signatures signed in ink on paper. That’s been the case since the year 2000, when a U.S. Federal law known as the Electronic Signatures in Global and International Commerce act, was enacted. Read More