The popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook has created a demand for Photoshop experts because people want to look perfect and glamorous in their profile photographs on social websites.

For this reason, Snappy Snaps, a photo company in UK, has launched a special “photo airbrushing service” that turns any normal photograph into a [...]

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For the past 14 months, high-tech insiders have been eating up the work of an anonymous blogger who assumed the persona of Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive and one of the world’s most famous businessmen.

P-I reporter Todd Bishop compares Daniel Lyons’ writing on Microsoft with the Fake Steve Jobs’ on his blog.

Daniel Lyons, a senior [...]

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As expected, address and calendar organizer Plaxo unveiled on Monday its Pulse social-networking site.

Rumors about Plaxo expanding into social networking have been floating about recently; the company confirmed them to a number of press outlets last week and made some screenshots available in advance.

Now you can play with the beta service yourself. But don’t call [...]

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What is an Elevator Pitch?

This is the 30-60 second business description of what you do and why someone should work with you. It’s called an “Elevator Pitch” because it describes the challenge: “How would you explain your business and make a sale if fate placed you in an elevator with your dream prospect and you [...]

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Disclaimer: the names and events in this piece have been changed to protect the innocent—namely, those with Facebook profiles you may want to look up while reading this column.

I was in no mood to party. Still, my friends dragged me out of my house—and into someone else’s—for a casual get-together. That night, I spotted Mr. [...]

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Take two Harvard grads with a combined five summers of intern experience and give them a computer. Add a dose of schmoozing skills, some business smarts and heaping amounts of wit.
Before you know it, you have Intern Memo, the website and thrice-weekly e-newsletter created this summer by brothers Will and Theodore Bressman of New [...]

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Amazon.com, the Internet retailer known for its massive book sales, started delivering groceries Wednesday directly to consumers’ doorsteps on Mercer Island as part of a pilot program that’s expected to include pickup service in Bellevue and Kirkland.

“It’s just starting out, and it’s very small. We are in the early-stage beta test, and it’s a better [...]

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Inc.com Weekly Business Briefing: Aug 1, 2007

The Dakota Venture Group, a newly-formed venture capital investment fund sponsored by the University of North Dakota and run exclusively by students, is looking for private companies to invest in that exhibit high-growth potential in North Dakota and Minnesota. The group is especially interested in those companies started by [...]

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If two months’ worth of perpetual hype and hearsay about Facebook have given you social-networking fatigue, it might be time to chug an energy drink—looks like we will see another serious entry into the field on Monday.

Launched by contact and schedule management service Plaxo, this will apparently be a sort of midpoint between the strictly [...]

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Rumors that Apple is wearing the pants a little too often in their iPhone relationship with AT&T have received a boost, now that the wireless carrier seems to have stopped promoting the pricey phone on their main page barely a month after its June 29th launch. While we know that Apple negotiated an unprecedented deal [...]

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