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Startup Aims To Build Billboards That Target You, Personally

April 17, 2011

Digital billboards that display different ads depending on who is looking at them were once only found in Minority Report. But a recently launched startup aims to make targeted billboard advertising as ubiquitous as targeted online advertising.

Immersive Labs introduced its smart billboard technology at TechStars‘ Demo Day in New York on Thursday. The software combines video analytics with environmental factors and Twitter and Foursquare information to decide what the best ad to display at that moment is…

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More Than Half of Baby Boomer Moms Support Adult Children

April 17, 2011

Boomer moms supporting adult children.

Over half of Baby Boom-generation mothers financially support adult children and 60 percent are the go-to person when their grown kids encounter problems, according to a survey issued last week.

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Rising Food and Gas Prices Could Slow Economic Growth

April 16, 2011

Americans paying more for food and gas.

U.S. consumer inflation rises as Americans are paying more for food and gas. This trend that could slow economic growth in the months ahead according to a new report.

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More Than 2 Million Babies are Stillborn Every Year: Study

April 15, 2011

More babies could be saved if the mothers had better medical care.

Worldwide, more than 2 million babies are stillborn every year. About half of the babies born stillborn could be saved if their mothers had better medical care, according to researchers’ estimates.

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Will Electric Cars Be The Next Red/Blue Divide?

April 15, 2011

Focus-ing on a new perspective.

Ford–which is about to release an all-electric version of the Focus–just put out the above map of the United States with the cities it feels are best suited to electric car ownership. And with a few exceptions, it looks like the flyover states aren’t making preparations for the messianic arrival of the electric car. What do you want to bet that in the next presidential election, we’ll add “electric-car” to the litany of liberal-associative words like arugula, lattes, and sushi.

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Make’s Roundup of DIY Radiation Detectors

April 15, 2011

It may not be pretty but it gets the job done!

John Baichtal says: “MAKE’s interview with hardware hacker Akiba highlighted a fascinating trend: individuals and small groups taking their safety into their own hands by creating, modifying, and networking radiation detectors, a.k.a. Geiger counters, rather than relying on governments for information…

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Web Advertising Surpassed Newspaper Ad Revenue in 2010

April 14, 2011

The IAB estimates that Internet-ad revenue in 2010 surpassed that of newspapers.

Double-digit growth of web advertising resumed in 2010 in the U.S. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, web advertising outpaced traditional media and surpassed newspaper ad revenue for the first time.

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11 Worst Airlines in America

April 13, 2011

American Eagle had the worst Airline Quality Rating score of all the airlines rated.

Airlines are getting better in America. But that may be hard for the bedraggled frequent fliers among us to believe. The overall quality of air travel has shown improvement over the last year according to an annual assessment of U.S. airlines.

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10% Increase in Computer Science Enrollments

April 13, 2011

There is a jump in the number of computer science enrollments.

Computer science enrollments have increased for the third year. This ends the decline in enrollments that followed the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000-2001. But it could be years before enrollments reach the high of the dot-com booms.

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Doctors Aren’t Sure Why Girls Are Reaching Puberty Earlier

April 12, 2011

Girls are reaching puberty earlier than any generation in history.

Doctor’s don’t completely understand why girls are maturing faster than ever. Girls are hitting puberty earlier than any other generation in history.

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21st Century Ghost Towns in America

April 11, 2011

Lake County, Michigan has a 66% vacancy rate.

There are several counties in America, each with more than 10,000 homes, which have vacancy rates above 55%. The rate is above 60% in several.

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Fowndr Offers Private Social Network for Start-Ups

April 10, 2011

Look out people of the Internet, there’s another social network on the horizon! But this new network isn’t designed to compete with Facebook, Twitter or MySpace; instead, it’s intended for the people who build these services.

Fowndr, pronounced founder, is a new private network that hopes to offer creators of technology start-ups a place to discuss new projects and share learning, resources and files with other like-minded technologists.

“It’s basically a safe place for entrepreneurs and founders to share ideas, projects and files,” said Stu Green, founder of Fowndr. “The service is designed for people who have been involved in setting up businesses in the past and love new enterprise.”

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