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Company Offering $10K for a 30 Day Phone Detox, Apply Now

Tech.Co

To be considered for the contest, you will have to write a 100-500 word essay to enter on why you’d like to digitally detox and the positive impact it’ll have on your life – but that's all that's needed to apply. You’ll then be taken through to an online form.

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Focus@will Launches Paid Subscriptions

socalTECH

The startup''s service revolves around finding music that helps users concentrate on work, studying, or other intensive activities, with the idea that the right kind of music can help extend the concentration of users. The company claims its service helps increase attention span up to 400 percent while working, studying, writing and reading.

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This is the Dumbest Op Ed I’ve Read in a While

Both Sides of the Table

I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. The sort of thing I’m guessing you’ve studied for some time. I’d sooner people have my mobile phone number than my email address because as a society we know the social norm that just calling or texting somebody you don’t know isn’t acceptable.

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Quick Hack to Make Your Boss (and you) More Productive

Both Sides of the Table

“A study by Microsoft showed just how lethal interruptions are to productivity. He also write a nice post on limiting email and managing on the important / urgent matrix from the perspective on a recovering ex investment banker. This comment and blog post prompted me to write a post that has been in my queue for a long time.

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The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game

Tech Zulu Event

The rise of couponing in late 2008 coincided with the recession of the late 2000s;” this factor combined with an increased consumer interest in mobile technology and devices led to an unprecedented decline in print media. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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The lion and the ant: A managerial lesson

Berkonomics

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. It was at that time the cicada convinced the boss, The Lion to start a climatic study of the environment.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. Simply write a great book? What about mobile?

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