Business

Canada approves a startup visa for immigrant entrepreneurs

January 25, 2013

Canada approves startup visa for immigrants.

The Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), in partnership with the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) approved an official Start-Up Visa (SUV) pilot program for business class immigrants: the Start-Up Business class. The goal of the SUV program is to facilitate the immigration of a new type of immigrant entrepreneur to Canada with the potential to build innovative companies that compete on a global scale and create jobs for Canadians.

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Future Energy launches 2013 ARPA-E Innovation Summit

January 25, 2013

Gravaton Energy

Future Energy is a series of events that connects entrepreneurs, researchers, and private investors in the energy and clean-tech industries to develop and commercialize radical solutions to the world’s energy challenges.They are launching their first 2013 pitch event at this year’s ARPA-E Summit in Washington, D.C. on February 25. Eight companies will present their energy related projects and ideas to a distinguished panel of investors for Q&A and feedback.

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Top 5 hottest careers you may have never considered

January 24, 2013

There are plenty of job siting open despite the less-than-booming U.S. employment market. But there’s a mismatch between the skills that applicants have and the skills required for the careers that are in hot demand. Among employers, 25% reported that they had open positions in science and engineering that were hard to fill, and 18% said they were struggling to fill jobs in computer programming and information technology (IT), according to a 2011 report by McKinsey & Co. Looking ahead, employers could face a shortage of 85 million high- and medium-skilled workers worldwide by 2020.

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Intel to shut down its PC business by 2016

January 24, 2013

Intel has struggled to keep pace with its competitors in the PC motherboard category.

Intel has taken the first steps toward dissolving its PC motherboardproduction. If all goes according to plan, the entire division will be nonexistent by 2016.

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Analysis, Business, Globalism, Money Talk

How crowdfunding can change the investment status quo

January 23, 2013

The dream Martin Luther King Jr. had for his children was that they would “one day live in a nation where they would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

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Business, Internet, Science & Technology News

France proposes to tax the internet

January 22, 2013

France proposes an internet tax on American companies collecting personal data.

France is seeking new ways to raise funds. Because of frustration with American technology companies that dominate its digital economy which are largely beyond the reach of fiscal authorities, France has proposed a new levy. They are proposing an internet tax on the collection of personal data.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend

Startups at a 30-year low

January 21, 2013

Business formation at a 30-year low.

There has been a decline in new business formations. The decrease in the number of jobs per new startup are causing innovation stagnation. The reason? Consumer confidence is very low.

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Longform meltdown at major newspapers in the U.S.

January 21, 2013

The number of stories longer than 2,000 words published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, from 2003 to 2012.

Major U.S. newspapers have seen a sharp decline in the last ten years in the stories that are published that contain over 2,000 words. The Los Angeles Times has seen an 86% drop, The Washington Post down 50% and The Wall Street Journal down 35%.

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Brazil, India, and Russia are the next smartphone battlegrounds

January 18, 2013

Smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung have been focusing their efforts on the U.S. and more on China, but there are a few more countries that will soon demand their attention.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

Unions are being left behind as manufacturing bounces back from the recession

January 18, 2013

American factories are hiring again, but they’re not hiring union members.

Factory workers had a good month in July in Anderson, Ind., where a Honda parts supplier announced plans to build a new plant and create up to 325 jobs. But in the Cleveland suburbs it was a grim month, where an industrial plastics firm told the state of Ohio it was closing a plant and laying off 150 people.

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Analysis, Business

IPO’s stifle startups’ creativity and innovation: Study

January 16, 2013

Is going public the beginning to the end of a startup?

A Stanford academic study has found that a firm’s IPO can put the lid on creativity and innovation. Shai Bernstein of the university’s Graduate School of Business studied thousands of startups between 1985 and 2003 to write a paper on the subject, and these are some of his findings:

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Business, Science & Technology News

First bookless library to open in San Antonio

January 16, 2013

The inside of the BiblioTech will be influenced by Apple Retail Stores.

In Bexar County, Texas a new library will open that will provide visitors with a bank of e-Readers for borrowing e-books … but books of the traditional paper variety will be glaringly absent. he project marks the first public library to be built as an all-digital service and just to make sure library-goers are in no doubt that it’s the 21st century, the interior will feature a design influenced by Apple retail stores.

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