A homeless man filled his new Council house with hundreds of books collected from library sales and charity shops. He built his own PC from spare parts, in order to start an Internet book-selling business. Now Richard Cartwright’s business — Newcastle Books — stocks a whopping 140,000 titles, and Richard employs four people to help [...]
Dec 1 2010 | Posted in
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U.S. consumers are telling each other good things about products and companies. More than 66% of ‘word of mouth’ in the U.S. is positive recommendation, new in-depth research has found. Business researcher company Keller Fay collected data from 36,000 Americans during the year to July 2010, and found only 8% of conversations were “mostly negative.” [...]
Nov 15 2010 | Posted in
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UK government announces plans to reform copyright, so as to bring U.S.-style ‘fair use’ laws to the UK. Prime Minister David Cameron said he wants… “to encourage the sort of creative innovation that exists in America”. The news was welcomed by the Open Rights Group and other copyright campaigners. The U.S. system is clearly explained [...]
Nov 6 2010 | Posted in
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The X Prize Foundation is using crowdsourcing to stimulate commercial spaceflight and energy innovation.
Nov 2 2010 | Posted in
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