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Facebook Campaign for ‘Bald Barbie’ Gains SteamA Facebook Page petitioning Mattel to create a bald Barbie doll has amassed a significant following in a few short weeks. The campaign hopes to show girls who’ve lost their hair due to cancer treatments, alopecia or trichotillomania that bald can beautiful. The page has garnered nearly 40,... How a Professional Pain Point Led to a Disruptive Business Idea [VIDEO]Look books are the traditional, non-digital, paper catalogs that fashion designers use to show off their designs to magazine writers and editors. Fed up with the cumbersome process of having to look through every page to find the right item, Meggan Crum envisioned a website where she co... Designers Print 3D Buildings, Make Models Out of Metal Powder [VIDEO]The future of manufacturing and design relies on a printer that costs up to $60,000. MIT Media Lab professor Neri Oxman and materials science professor Craig Carter have created machinery that makes 3D printing of buildings and other structural prototypes a reality. One of the latest exa... Verizon FiOS TV App, Live Streaming Content Heading to Samsung Smart TVsLAS VEGAS — Samsung isn’t wasting any time in changing the way we consume live TV on its just-announced line of Smart HDTVs. The consumer electronics giant has unveiled at least one new app partner: Verizon. The company will deliver its FiOS TV app, featuring 26 channels of content (and t... Top 10 Self-Published Writers Make 449% More Money Through Amazon Lending LibraryAmazon released some strong revenue numbers Thursday around KDP Select, its lending library program for self-published authors. The data, released in effort to ward off uncertainty about the program, suggest that KDP Select is generating some serious revenue for some bestsellers, but offer few d... SoLoMo Revolution Picks Up Where Hyperlocal Search Left OffThe Future of Search Series is supported by SES New York, the leading search, social and display conference. From March 19 to 23, get five days of education, inspiration and conversations with marketing experts from the digital space. Register with MASH20 to save 20%. Hyperlocal search was a hot-... Foursquare Brings Explore Tab to DesktopsFoursquare is bolstering its non-mobile presence by migrating its “Explore” feature to desktops. The tab, which was added to Foursquare.com on Wednesday, harnesses the site’s database of all the 1.5 billion checkins logged into its system. Explore was originally introduced as pa... Technology Costs Trump Utility Bills, Discrepancy Rising [STUDY]Americans are needier than ever — for tech devices that is. A recent study shows that spending on technology devices and Internet connectivity trumps utility costs. Consumer spending on the Internet, online services, mobile phones and multimedia entertainment costs are on the rise. The stu... Michelle Obama Joins TwitterFirst Lady Michelle Obama officially joined Twitter on Thursday under the handle @MichelleObama. Obama and her staff will be using the account – which has already raked in nearly 60,000 followers as of late Thursday morning — throughout the campaign to connect with voters. “We’re... Soapy: Can This Plug-In Kill SOPA?“Like crispy bacon, I crave censorship circumvention,” reads the website for Soapy, a Firefox plug-in that will allow users to visit websites blocked by the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) if it is passed. SOPA, intended to punish copyright infringement on the web, has caused quite a st... |