Jim Saunders and his daughter, Jill Saunders, from Kempton, saw an opportunity for creating a small business when brainstorming how to prevent damages caused by deers to their trees. In a collaboration with the Lehigh University Small Business Development Center, they developed a new product, which is effective and not so expensive.
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Differing from a tangible invention, new virtual tools for traders are shaking up the financial industry. Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys
— a top-selling treatise on the state of modern-day Wall Street — is
turning the stock market ecosystem on its head. For those who still
think the hallowed halls of the stock exchange is still about alpha-male
floor traders whaling in trading pits to ‘buy’ and ‘sell’ – think again
— for that world is officially DOA.
Are your ears ringing? Does your heart skip a beat? Well, they should – as two divergent forms of malware attacked
our online sense of well-being this week. Engineered by social media
gurus on one front and hackers on the other, one was analogous to an American Idol trainwreck, while the other, the work of a nefarious cat burglar
Death is a big business, and if you’re a regular reader, you know this
already. It is a highly competitive market, with many people hoping to
profit off of a service category that is needed by everyone (except for
the immortal, like vampires – but for you skeptics, we can overlook this
fact). Because of the stiff competition, many businesses are forced to
get creative with their products and services. The latest one will be
music to your forever at rest audiophile ears.
Relationships are hard work, whether you have been part of a couple for a
couple of months, or a couple of decades. Keeping the spark alive is
easier said than done, and as two people get to know each other
completely, managing to surprise each other is tough. Of course, with
effort, a relationship does not need to fizzle and lose what it had
during its early days.
Ever consider leaving Facebook? Heck, the Millennials are bailing in droves. But
when push comes to shove and it’s time to put the pedal to the metal,
how many of us would actually pull the trigger? Well, there is one brave
band of renegades who have not only set the bar fairly high as to how
to cut those ties – but also how to read the riot act to the founding fathers while walking out of the door.
One thing boomers learn fast: Medicare and other insurance plans don’t
pay for hearing aids. And those buggers can cost up to $4,000 – $5,000 a
pair. There’s perhaps no one who knows these facts better than the man
who invented the Lyric hearing aid, which, on a subscription basis,
cost that much per pair per year! Now, that man, Adnan Shannib,
has invented iHear, the hearing aid for the 99 percent of us who would
love to hear, but can’t afford those Lyric prices. It’s the iHear, and
wait ’til you see what’s different about these hearing aids!
You know that Bitcoins have gone mainstream when this unique form of tender is featured in the
plot line of a current TV drama. That’s right – the world’s first
decentralized cryptocurrency lacking any political authority was
featured in the recent season finale episode of the Fox network series, ‘Almost Human.’ Granted, while the premise of that detective drama is set in the year 2048. . .
April Fool’s Day might be an under-rated holiday, or one that’s universally dreaded. Whatever it is, there are some great businesses that will help you make a friend of yours into an April Fool to ring in the 1st of the month!
It’s hard to say, looking twenty to thirty years into the future, just how different the digital landscape will look. Semantic
Technology, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Web 3.0 are presently only toddling along in their infant stage. What they will look like in the next few decades is only
guesswork on our part.
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