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Interview with Gabriel Halimi, Co-Founder Of Flo Technologies

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In a bid to prevent the damage from those plumbing failures and also help save water, Los Angeles-based Flo Technologies (www.meetflo.com) has developed a water monitoring device and shutoff valve for your home, which is connected to your smartphone and its own app. Plumbers are not exactly known for their adoption of high tech products.

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Energy Innovations' Assets On The Block

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Energy Innovations had originally been targeting the residential market with its CPV panels, which it had expected to be more efficient and cheaper than conventional solar panels; however, the firm failed to deliver its products before prices for PV modules dropped due to economies of scale, plus competition from China and thin film modules.

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SolarCity Expands In Riverside With New Operations Center

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Due to the vagaries in electric utility rates and incentives for solar power, those payments are usually a steep discount to what users currently pay for their electricity. Silicon Valley-based SolarCity--which recently went public --is a provider of financing for rooftop, solar panels. READ MORE>>.

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Social Media Faking It – Cheaper Than You May Think, But Still Not Worth It

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If you buy in bulk, the price of 1,000 Twitter followers is about $1.75. He noted that, " Throughout the year I review my Twitter followers looking for bots, accounts that have been abandoned, or that are tweeting links with viruses and I remove them. The Cost Of Fake Fame. Correspondingly, Klout is penalizing obvious fakers.

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5 Keys To Starting A New Venture In Your Local Town

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For example, in a small town with no other hardware store, you may be lulled into complacency as customers flock in at any price, but soon a competitor will pounce. Every ad, every review, or lack of one, tells a story about how much you care, and what customer experience one might expect.

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

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military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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Eight Startup Tips From Mark Zuckerberg

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" I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. We debated the merits of releasing two products, one at a lower price with fewer features, but we ultimately decided to release a single version of GoToMyPC, with a highly limited feature set. . ." 5) Progress Matters. "I

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