Loving Amazon – National Retail Award Changes Perceptions

Amazon wins the Gold Medal award from the National Retail Federation. That’s as surprising as the Seattle Seahawks coming back from a certain loss in the Atlanta Falcons playoff game, taking the lead, then losing in the final 31 seconds. Here is the National Retail Federation, which hosted its huge annual event this week, honoring [...]

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The Controversial Art Of Having NO Goals – Leo Babauta Versus Tim Ferriss

Research shows that having goals is good for your heart. In this case, those would be fitness goals. Research shows that achieving goals at work keeps you employed, most of the time. Zenhabits creator Leo Babauta believes that having no goals lets you experience life and work more fully, more intensely as you concentrate on [...]

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Retail Sales Meet Mobile Growth: iPad Tops List

Retail sales for December from the Commerce Department increased rose a seasonally adjusted 0.5 percent. Recent retail data has been disappointing after a weak holiday shopping season. Rather than look back, take a look forward at what retail and hospitality industry executives state they are going to do with their money instead. 2013 looks strong [...]

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No Jamba Juice Line For You: iPhone That Order In With PayPal

Ebay’s payment subsidiary, PayPal, has been on a tear to make your in-store purchasing as easy as ordering online. In a recent announcement at the National Retail Federation convention, Jamba Juice is reportedly working to integrate into the PayPal iPhone app to let you order and pay in advance. Even with mobile payments still in [...]

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Social Media Maximum: 150 Friends

Dunbar’s Number explains that most of us can only manage 150 relationships or connections. Now, most social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest make the case for increasing your social network as large as you can make it. More is always better, or so it seems. University of Oxford professor, Robin Dunbar, is [...]

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Ford Motor Company Sees Open Source

Ford today announced the launch of its OpenXC vehicle application research platform. Open-source hardware and software toolkits are now available to anybody who’s interested in building hardware and on the OpenXC platform. It is a joint effort with BugLabs (what a great name!). The launch of OpenXC marks the second developer platform to be offered [...]

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iPhone5 Growth For Entrepreneurs From Walmart And China

Apple is brilliant at creating a product that people crave. Not just want, but crave. Deeply crave. There is usually no argument on that point. There is some serious proof of that in the USA, but even more so in China where 2.1 million devices sold on the iPhone5 debut in late December. In the [...]

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5 Things Overachievers Do Not Do

1. Think Small They Do Not. Yoda could have written this post. Tim Ferriss, of Four Hour Work Week fame, recently did a video interview (posting on that tomorrow) with Leo Babauta about goals or no goals. During this conversation, he talked about how he is okay with a 60% success rate on his goals, [...]

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Apple #1, Google #2 – 50 Innovative Companies Ranked By 1,500 Execs

Technology is not the only industry that knows how to innovate, according to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Automotive, consumer, and retail, and industrial products are strong on innovation also. Tech and telecom do dominate the top ten from this recent BCG executive survey. Apple is #1 on the list. Google is #2. Seven of [...]

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100 Must Watch Trends in 2013

Want to know what’s hot for 2013? You don’t need eagle eyes; you just need this long list from JWT. Ann Mack and her team at JWT have hit a homerun. In my years as a technology writer and researcher, I’ve seen more than my fair share of prognistication. Trend watching can be a combination [...]

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