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How to go public
Your startup's business is booming -- but do you have what Wall Street is looking for? Steve Goldman, IPO guru and CEO of Isilon Systems, has five tips to get you ready for a market debut.

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Fixing e-mail: once a savior, now a scourge - July 1, 2007

Once a time-saver, the inbox has become a burden. That's why bold entrepreneurs stand to get rich fixing it, writes Business 2.0 columnist Om Malik. continue...

More homeowners are using wind power to turn on the lights - Feb. 19, 2007

Forget solar panels. Wind turbines in your backyard are the new thing in energy conservation, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. continue...

An easier way for homeowners to go green - July 1, 2007

Want to go green but don't know how? A year-old startup promises to help you pick the right mix of alternative technologies for your home. Business 2.0 reports. continue...

The wide world of wi-max

Business 2.0 details how just a few transmitters can provide high-speed Internet connectivity for entire cities.
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The greatest economic boom ever

The greatest economic boom ever

By Rik Kirkland, Fortune

Okay, it may not feel like a day at the beach to most Americans. But for your average globetrotting Fortune 500 CEO, right now is about as good as it gets. By Rik Kirkland (more) continue...

India Inc

India's highway to heaven - or hell?

The country's much-needed highway improvement program has been hobbled by delays and other problems. Still, Fortune's John Elliott argues that the project has been a success. (more) continue...

Startups to watch

It's getting crowded on the Web 2.0 frontier, but there are still some startups that truly stand out. Business 2.0 Magazine identifies the ones most likely to strike gold in 2007.

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Future Implications: Apple's complete home dominance

Posted by Don Reisinger

In a report that is guaranteed to make Apple fanboys proud and Apple haters scoff, the market research firm IDC has released a study claiming that Apple has officially become the third-largest computer vendor in the United States. continue...

And they inhaled... cabinet ministers line up to admit youthful cannabis use

By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
Published: 20 July 2007

Days after they backed toughening the law on cannabis, six cabinet ministers have owned up to smoking the drug during their student years. continue...

Banks pay £200m to settle charges claims

By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
Published: 20 July 2007

Banks have paid £200m this year to customers reclaiming penalty fees, according to research that suggests the public is winning the revolt on charges. continue...

Brainwashed worker-bees ensure dominance of queen

By John von Radowitz
Published: 20 July 2007

Queen honeybees rule over a "Brave New World" society where their workers are literally brainwashed to behave, scientists have learned.

The queen exerts her power by producing an aromatic chemical that inhibits negative tendencies in the young nurse drones who feed and groom her.

By preventing them from acquiring aggressive traits, she ensures her own dominance and that the hive remains a haven of order, peace and harmony.

Effectively, the pheromone chemical keeps the drones innocently enslaved to the queen. continue...

Young poets are often the best

Philip Hensher: Young poets are often the best
Published: 20 July 2007

Byron said, after the publication of the first cantos of Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage in 1812, that he woke and found himself famous. The audience for poetry is not what it was in the Regency, but Luke Kennard would still have had a little taste of that when he woke on Tuesday morning to find himself on the shortlist for the Forward poetry prize for his collection, The Harbour Beyond the Movie. The Forward is the most admired and important of British poetry prizes, and Kennard, at 26, is the youngest poet ever to have been shortlisted.  continue...

The real reason why publishers miss good books

If I spent my life fretting about the ones that got away, I would never attend to the fish in the net

Published: 20 July 2007

Publishers are everyone's favourite whipping post. We don't pay our authors enough, books are too expensive, and no one likes the ones we love most. Now, on top of it all, we are revealed to be fools. Yesterday the director of the Bath Jane Austen Festival reported that he submitted thinly disguised versions of Pride and Prejudice and two other Austen favourites to 18 UK publishers, and every single publisher turned them down. continue...

Behind every new US disaster has been the hand of Dick Cheney - and still he goes on

Insofar as one can divine such things in Kremlinesque Washington, his influence appears as strong as ever

Published: 20 July 2007

So now we know - sort of. Six years after the event, The Washington Post published this week a partial list of those consulted by the task force headed by Vice-President Dick Cheney, set up by President George Bush soon after he took office in January 2001, to map a new energy strategy for the US. continue...

Make The Clothes, Outsource The Retailing

When brothers Shep and Ian Murray decided to expand distribution of their preppy, nautical-themed apparel, they didn't know the first thing about running a retail store. That's why they let their competitors do it for them--and have been making decent waves ever since.

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The Most Expensive Celebrity Photos

In a media marketplace heavy on celebrity news, stories are interesting, but pictures reign supreme. Want proof? Just look at the price tags.
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Sony Revamps Online Video Site

The clips found on user-generated video sites can be entertaining to watch, but they're just as often inane, stupid or of questionable taste or legal status. So it's no big surprise that many advertisers remain leery of associating themselves with the stuff. continue...

No Time To Think

Jack Trout, 07.16.07, 10:00 AM ET

This column could be titled, "A Tale of Three Meetings." It's a sad story about today's state of affairs. It's also a story that no one writes about, though they should. I've written about this problem before, but it is well worth repeating since I'm the only one writing about it.

The first meeting took place a while ago at Intel. I was there to discuss strategy with a conference room of middle-level executives. As the meeting began, everyone put an electronic gadget down on the table in from of them. What ensued could only be described as gadget envy as everyone began to comment on each other's gadgets. At this point, I broke in and asked them all what they did with their gadgets. Since I was without one, I felt I must be missing something.

After they all described their gadget activities, I commented that everything they mentioned, my assistant Ann did for me. My question was, "Why are you wasting your time on these unimportant activities?" Embarrassed, they admitted as such, but they pointed out the Anns were all gone at Intel, with one exception. Then-CEO Andy Grove had three such assistants. Their collective problem: They had no time to think. continue...

Objective: Increase the Solar Power in NY State

May 25, 2007

A private sector industry initiative calls for more than 2,000 MW by 2017.

Solar Energy could provide a significant fraction of New York's electricity generation requirements and, in concert with other generation sources, provide more reliable power. Aggressive state programs such as the California Solar Initiative as well as federal tax credits have stimulated renewed growth of the U.S. solar industry. Now the focus is on New York. continue....

Under the Hood: Inside the Apple iPhone

Patrick Mannion
TechOnline

COMMACK, N.Y. — Semiconductor Insights' Allan Yogasingam waited in line for 12 hours and braved the elements get ahold of the just-released Apple iPhone. He and his intrepid co-workers kept the cameras rolling as they popped the cover and dove inside what is possibly the hottest consumer device on the planet (click icon for video: ). The teardown is a follow-up to the company's teardowns of the latest gaming systems (Opportunities abound in nex-gen gaming platforms) and provides insight into what exactly Apple is doing to make a strong entry into the cell phone market. continue...

Women in film on cockchops's site on Bore Me

80 years of female portraits in cinema

In order - Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Angie Dickinson, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann-Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Melanie Griffith, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Demi Moore, Julia Roberts, Uma Thurman, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow continue...

The pioneering technique that's helping to combat depression in the classroom

By James Morrison
Published: 19 July 2007

Tom Bagley seems a cheerful enough lad. Like most children on the cusp of puberty, he's prone to the odd mood, and anxieties about homework or peer pressure. But, if he submitted to analysis, it's unlikely that he'd be diagnosed as anything other than a profoundly normal 12-year-old. continue...

Mum's the word: Why Oxford students are putting motherhood before career

By Lucy Tobin
Published: 19 July 2007

Oxford students Amy Butler, Chloe Mattison and Danielle Abbiss

A group of women students at Oxford are scrutinising a photo of 100 beaming freshers, wondering who will end up being famous. As an Oxford undergraduate myself, I am part of the group and I notice that, after identifying candidates for Prime Minister, next year's Pop Idol and a university professor, the girls all discount themselves from the top of any career ladder on the grounds that their maternal ambitions are stronger than their professional aims. Oxford's undergraduates are billed as among Britain's brainiest, but we female students are prioritising marriage and children over a career. continue...

Akbar Ahmed: What's fundamentalist about wanting to live in dignity?

Leaders and commentators need to stop viewing Muslims as a monolith
Published: 19 July 2007

Visiting the UK from the US is an unsettling experience. One gets a feeling of deja vu. It is like seeing a blockbuster Hollywood film on "Islamic Terror" being remade for a UK audience on English sets, with an English cast. The police are not quite as fat and drive smaller vehicles, but the emotions and prejudices are the same. continue...

Pull troops out now and stand up to Bush, inquiry tells Brown

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 16 July 2007

British troops should be pulled out of Iraq even though the violence is likely to get worse, a cross-party commission has told Gordon Brown.

The commission co-chaired by Lord Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader, called for an end to offensive military operations by British forces and a "clear exit strategy". continue...

Hain to coax lone parents and over 50s back to work

By Colin Brown, Deputy Political Editor
Published: 16 July 2007

Lone parents are to be targeted with "tough love" as part of a radical overhaul of the welfare system aimed at getting 2.3 million people to take jobs and move off benefits.

A Green Paper delivered to the Cabinet last week by Peter Hain, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, will lay the foundation for the implementation of David Freud's report. It recommended that lone parents should be required to seek work if their youngest child is 12 years or over. continue...