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Search for the greatest ever invention launched in London
A campaign to identify the most significant invention or discovery in history was launched on June 9 by the Science Museum. The museum has invited the public to vote for the breakthrough, which has had the greatest impact on the past, present and future to mark the London attraction’s 100th anniversary. Curators have selected ten [...]
California running out of $10,000 tax credits
A boon for new homebuyers, scheduled to last through next March, will be out of money long before that. Time is running out for California residents wanting to take advantage of a $10,000 tax credit. The state set aside $100 million to help home buyers purchasing newly built homes, hoping to jump start the moribund [...]
Facebook Vanity URLs Coming This Weekend
On Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username. Users will only be permitted to select one username for their profiles, as well as for any Pages they administer. The name must total at least [...]
Largest Solar Thermal Storage Plant to Start Up
A few weeks from now, the Andasol 1 solar thermal power plant in Andalucía, Spain, will begin charging the largest installation built expressly for storing renewable energy (other than the tried-and-true hydroelectric dam, of course). Heat from the solar thermal power station’s 510 000-square-meter field of solar collectors will be stored in 28 500 tons [...]
5 Reasons This Election Matters
Barack Obama and John McCain gave us their positions on issues relevant to small business. Here’s where they stand on other important issues. To see the candidates’ stances on health care, taxes, the SBA and immigration, click here. BARACK OBAMA Budget and Economy: Obama promises to cut taxes for the middle class and eliminate income [...]
Rescue Package Hostile to Small Business?
The American Small Business League, a nonprofit organization that represents small businesses across the nation (100,000 by its own count), today expressed fears that the revised $700 billion financial rescue package being considered in Congress this week could allow the federal government “to completely ignore the federal government’s small business contracting goals,” according to a [...]
Yahoo merger holds peril for small biz
It’s like we’re watching a scene from that dumb reality show, “The Bachelor,†and in this case the bachelor is Yahoo. Who will walk down the aisle with Yahoo? Microsoft? Google? Time Warner’s AOL? Even News Corp. is getting into the act, considering a plan to team up with Microsoft in its bid for Yahoo. [...]
