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The Boston Globe:The leaves may have barely begun to fall, and the still-strong sun banishes thoughts of December.But like it or not, the holiday shopping season, in all its gift-giving cheer and consumerist frenzy, is already underway.It began even earlier than usual this year, with a few stores displaying Christmas items in July.The accelerated arrival [...]

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Journal Sentinel:As the last group of fans walked out of Lambeau Field on a Sunday afternoon, the iconic seating bowl looked more like a landfill than the home of the Green Bay Packers.It was quite a collection the 70,000 or more football fans left behind. Paper cups, plastic beer bottles, straws, plastic drink tops, leftover [...]

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New Jersey Business:Leslie Scott was fiddling with her kid brother’s wooden toy blocks one day when she began stacking one on top of another. With no purpose in mind, the 17-year-old, who was living in Ghana at the time, continued stacking. And stacking.Nearly four decades later, the game she invented that day — Jenga — [...]

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Fast Company:Now would-be entrepreneurs have a new tool to make launching a business easier: the Start Your Own Company app for the iPhone. This .99 application offers a streamlined, step-by-step approach to becoming your own boss — and is the first iPhone app to actually walk users through that process.The Start Your Own Company app [...]

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BusinessWeek:Apple is widely celebrated for making devices as easy to use as they are elegantly designed. What customers probably don’t know is that some of these features aren’t exactly new—they evolved from software Apple created to help disabled people use PCs. Among them: the new iPhone’s voice control option, which allows users to speak to [...]

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