6th fastest-growing job in the U.S. is veterinary technologists & technicians
In January, the economy added nearly 250,000 jobs, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg. The economy is expected to add more than 20 million jobs by 2020, a 14.3% increase from 2010 in the number of people employed, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many of these jobs will be focused in a few key industries.
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Teens are migrating to Twitter because many parents are on Facebook, but they don’t tweet.
Teenagers don’t tweet and will never tweet because it’s too public, too many older users and not cool. That’s been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.
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Corporate offices are going to become coworking offices in the future.
If you are a fan of coworking and are going to the SXSW this year in Austin, you might want to arrive a few days early to hit the Global Coworking Unconference Conference (formerly known as the Coworking Unconference) being held in Austin on March 8. The all-day event is geared toward owners and there will be a range of panels on starting and running a space. But at least one discussion might be of interest not only to coworking entrepreneurs but also to forward-thinking managers as well.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Michael Migliozzi and Brian Flatow started a website called BuyaBeerCompany.com in November 2009 who’s lofty goal was to buy the ailing century old Pabst Blue Ribbon beer company. Working to match the $300 million sale price, in less than two years the pair had attracted over 5 million investors pledging upwards of $280 million, with an average pledge of $40.
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Advertisers are falling over themselves to get their ads out on YouTube or as part of online contests, like Volkswagen has done this year.
A big social event every year is the Super Bowl. During this year’s battle pitting the New York Giants against the New England Patriots, getting social will happen on screens and the sofa. (video)
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Home births are still rare in the United States but it is a growing trend.
Jessica Wilcox thinks her in-laws still view her ideas about childbirth as kind of out there, but it’s hard to argue with success: In the last five years or so, Wilcox has given birth to two boys and two girls — each weighing more than 10 pounds — at her northern Virginia home. And she hopes to do it again one or two more times.
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Tablet and e-reader adoption continues to grow quickly.
It used to be a startling experience to see an iPad on a bus, an airplane or the subway. Now you might be startled not to see one.
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Roughly 60 hours of video is now uploaded to YouTube every minute.
Google’s video website, YouTube, is streaming 4 billion online videos every day, a 25 percent increase in the past eight months, according to the company.
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The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor shows entrepreneurial activity revived in 2011 after years of decline
Early-stage entrepreneurial activity rates surged around the world in 2011, jumping nearly 60 percent in the U.S., according to a survey released this week by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. More than 12 percent of U.S. adults reported starting a business or running new businesses last year, up from just below 8 percent in 2010.
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It has become fashionable for young people to express their affection for each other by sharing their passwords.
Boyfriends and girlfriends have long signaled their devotion to each other by various means — the gift of a letterman jacket, or an exchange of class rings or ID bracelets. Best friends share locker combinations.
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American drivers are holding on to their cars and trucks for longer, new data suggest.
New data suggests American drivers are holding on to their cars and trucks longer as they put off buying new vehicles in the face of high unemployment and a struggling economy.
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The fastest growing form of electronic payment in the U.S. are prepaid debit cards.
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