10 Leading Finance And Banking Apps For iPhone And iPad

Yesterday Apple announced that they reached 40 billion downloads. They also stated that they paid out $7 billion to app developers. That’s a pretty healthy ecosystem and a small part of that development involves online banking and finance. One of my favorite blogs to cover that space is Netbanker. Jim Bruene does a terrific job [...]

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Shutterfly Looks Like David — Yahoo’s Flickr Is Goliath

Yahoo’s Flickr is the Goliath of online photo sharing. Shutterfly just became David with the acquisition of ThisLife. Best known for its online photo printing service, Shutterfly has been slowly building an impressive portfolio of companies that serve the photographer. ThisLife is a cloud-based solution for organizing and sharing photos and videos. The company launched [...]

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11 Stellar Tools To Keep New Year’s Resolutions

It is so easy to make resolutions. Many of us, especially Type-A personalities, love to crank out the ways we are going to change the world and change ourselves as the clock strikes midnight. Now that the New Year’s resolution madness is over, here are 11 killer tools to help you (and me) keep them. [...]

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iRobot Cleans Your World — Floors, Gutters, and Pool. What’s Next?

iRobot introduced the Mirra 530, a new robot that will clean a swimming pool. They also manufacture the now famous Roomba that automatically vacuums your home. The company is launching and demonstrating the pool cleaning robot at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas next week. The little Mirra 530 fastidiously cleans in-ground pools, on [...]

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8 Food Apps To Chew On

We all have to do our part to help the economy. This will be a tough job for some of you, but your mission this weekend is to eat out. Or order takeout. Or make a fancy meal at home. Here are 8 mobile apps to help. 1. FoodSpotting is super well known, but it [...]

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Apple Not Buying Waze for iPhone5 But Google Should Buy It

CNET broke the rumor mill. They reported that Apple has no plans to buy Waze, the community-based traffic and navigation app. This is hours after TechCrunch posted that “Waze was hoping to net $750 million in an Apple buyout, but the iPhone maker was willing to offer only $400 million in cash and an additional [...]

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Global Trends 2030 With America At The Center

The National Intelligence Council commissioned a report for upcoming global trends out to the year 2030. This detailed work has dozens of in-depth blog posts, by experts in their fields. It is a US-centric report because the goal of it is to figure out what happens to the US as changes occur around the world. [...]

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Worldwide Electric Vehicle Sales to Reach 3.8 Million Annually by 2020

Since the launch of the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt, in late 2010, plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) have become more widely available. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), which first appeared a decade earlier, are now selling steadily. According to a new report from Pike Research, annual worldwide sales of these vehicles, collectively referred to as electric [...]

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Tech Tools I Love – Andrew Schrage from MoneyCrashers.com

What makes you more productive? One of the things that helps to keep me productive is Google Apps for Business. It comes with document storage, video chat capabilities, Gmail, and a calendar feature that I simply couldn’t do without. It allows me to plan my day, week, and month, and keeps me up to date on [...]

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