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Business Startup Guide to Naming
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Any business startup guide should include advice on naming. Your company’s name is the first thing that most people will see or hear about it, and it’s important to choose wisely and find a name that gets across the most important aspects of your brand. As any business startup guide will tell you, branding is…
Will the Real Baptists Please Stand Up?
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Hate: if you don’t mind the bad press, it’s a great way to get noticed. And for the Westboro Baptist Church, it’s a godsend. Notorious for sniffing out public tragedy and exploiting it in the name of a God so vindictive he makes the Old Testament look like a Disney movie, Westboro members feed on…
Glendale Galleria
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100M names Whitewater — Riverbed’s newest product.
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From Enterprise Networking Planet: “As the move toward cloud-based IT infrastructure continues, so too does the need for network acceleration. To that end, WAN acceleration vendor Riverbed (NASDAQ:RVBD) is announcing new cloud-focused application and storage acceleration technologies to help expedite the adoption and usage of cloud technologies. Their newest product is called Whitewater.” http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/news/article.php/3912541/Riverbed+Whitewater+Expands+Cloud+Acceleration+and+Storage.htm
Greener Grass
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Unsightly Staines? U.K. Town Needs an Ali G Remover
The British town of Staines has a problem with its name. But it’s not quite what you would expect. About 15 miles southwest of London, on the banks of the river Thames, lies a place that sounds like it manufactures soiled britches. But the funny thing about the people of Staines is that they’re actually…
Naming Your Startup Business Idea
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When you’ve got a great business idea and you’re trying to get it off the ground, there are a million things on your mind. You have to raise capital, find an office, build prototypes, start a website, and do a seemingly infinite number of other things. So it’s not a surprise that some things slip…
Scotland Yard’s Vice Squad Succumbs to the PC Police
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by Jeffery Racheff London’s Vice Squad is starting to sound more like the Nice Squad. The special Scotland Yard division tasked with battling prostitution and various underworld activities in the Greater London area will now officially be called Serious Crime Directorate 9: Human Exploitation and Organized Crime Command, or SCD9 for short. And…
Hippies with AK-47s: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
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Maui Wowie. Albino Rhino. Cat Piss. Alaskan Thunderf**k. No, these are not rock bands or energy drinks. They’re the colorfully bizarre names of marijuana strains. And with Proposition 19 on the ballot in the upcoming midterm election, Californians will have the chance to make their state the first place where it is legal to smoke…