Dark clouds are hanging over the economy, but they haven’t reached “ourWorld.”
The colorful and multi-dimensional Web site – created by Seattle startup FlowPlay – is signing up tens of thousands of kids every day who gather in the virtual world to chat, shop and play games. The growth spurt – despite the bleak economic [...]

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Microsoft hasn’t yet given an official Windows 7 release date, but that doesn’t appear to be stopping the industry from gearing up for its expected debut later this year. During chipmaker AMD’s conference call with analysts yesterday, executive Bob Rivet called the new OS a potential boon for discrete graphics processing, according to the Seeking [...]

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Yahoo’s quarterly results today confirmed the conventional wisdom that search advertising will fare better than display ads in the downturn, as advertisers seek more immediately measurable results. Display advertising revenue on Yahoo sites fell 13 percent for the quarter, compared with a 3 percent decline in search ad revenue, the company said as it reported [...]

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There is a passion and engagement within an independent enterprise that large corporates, with their managerialism and uniformity, can only envy, writes Luke Johnson, more  and Entrepreneur with sole  Inspiration through perspiration led Mario Moretti Polegato to found shoe brand Geox, more 
and Schooled in a duty to employees  The head of a nursery chain has continued a [...]

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Microsoft user experience designer Mike LaManna remembers feeling like a mad scientist as he tried to design a computer mouse that would let children with cognitive and physical disabilities keep their fingers properly positioned to point and click. He brought home old mice, took them apart, and tried everything from clay to Velcro straps. He [...]

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LOLapps is a little San Francisco startup backed by $4 million from Polaris Venture Partners that has quietly become a pretty big player on the Facebook platform, claiming 7 million users while surfing the powerful trend of user-generated content., more 

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