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9 Sites That Measure Companies’ Social ResponsibilityThe Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by Fedex. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how. Applications that measure the corporate social responsibility, or CSR, o... Throwable Camera Creates 360-Degree Panoramic Images [VIDEO]Are you, like so many others, tired of all those old-fashioned cameras you have to hold in order to take pictures? Well here’s a camera you get to throw. The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera is a foam-padded ball studded with 36 fixed-focus, 2-megapixel mobile phone camera modules capable of ... Leonardo DiCaprio Dives Into the Startup SceneLeonardo DiCaprio has joined the growing list of celebrities who are also startup investors. The first startup to benefit from both his following and pocketbook is visual social media platform Mobli, which announced Tuesday that DiCaprio was part of a $4 million seed round that it raised from ... Grand Theft Auto 5 Officially Announced, Rumor Mill in High GearRockstar Games has officially announced Grand Theft Auto 5 as the next game in the award-winning video game series. The announcement came in suitably mysterious style. Logging on to the Rockstar’s website leads to the above image … and not much else. Eagle eyes will notice the game&... iPod Designer Builds the World’s Most Beautiful ThermostatTony Fadell, the man who oversaw 18 generations of the iPod, announced the first product of his stealth startup Nest Labs Tuesday: a sexy, world-saving … thermostat. “Nest” is a $249 programmable thermostat that can also program itself. At first, users might frequently adjust t... Weiv Puts Concert Visuals into Audience Hands With Wii RemotesThe Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Weiv Quick Pitch: Weiv makes concert visuals that are controlled in real-time by Wii r... Amazon’s Soap.com Begins Selling GroceriesAmazon-owned Soap.com has begun selling grocery goods. Unlike Amazon Fresh, which delivers a full range of groceries via an elaborate system of delivery trucks, Soap.com‘s selection is limited to approximately 10,000 non-perishable items such as cereal and coffee. Orders are shipped via UPS... Why Obama Needs Social Media to Win in 2012Jesse Comart serves as a communications and public affairs consultant at the Glover Park Group (GPG). Before joining GPG, he worked on policy and communications issues for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Follow Jesse on Twitter at @jcomart. It’s no secret that President Obama’s 2008 c... WATCH: Steve Jobs’s Biographer on “60 Minutes” [VIDEO]60 Minutes has posted its two-part interview with Walter Isaacson, the authorized biographer of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, which aired at 7 p.m. local time Sunday evening. We’ve embedded parts one and two below. You can also check out some of the highlights from the transcript here. St... Steve Jobs’s Biographer on “60 Minutes”: The Highlights60 Minutes‘s interview with Walter Isaacson, the authorized biographer of Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, aired on CBS News around the U.S. at 7 p.m. local time Sunday evening. The segment appeared two-and-a-half weeks after Jobs’s passing, and less than 24 hours before Isaac... |