Jun 02
Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to remove the “cloak of secrecy” from government by extending public access to data including Whitehall spending figures, street-by-street crime rates and hospital MRSA infection statistics.
Cameron believes greater transparency will help to reduce the UK’s budget deficit – approximately £5.5 billion at present – by making areas of waste and overspend visible to taxpayers, while enhancing public trust and engagement in politics.
“Greater transparency across government is at the heart of our shared commitment to enable the public to hold politicians and public bodies to account; to reduce the deficit and deliver better value for money in public spending; and to realise significant economic benefits by enabling businesses and non-profit organisations to build innovative applications and websites using public data,” he wrote in a letter to the secretaries of state. “The
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May 31
MIDDLETOWN – Shares of broadband provider Towerstream Corp. have jumped more than 30 percent over the last week after an influential investor suggested AT&T Inc. may start paying the company to provide a Wi-Fi network for its subscribers.
Michael Murphy, who writes the newsletter New World Investor and is a contributor to MarketWatch, laid out the case to his readers last Thursday. (
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May 30
I’m happy to be reviewing GreenAndChic.com today which is an online store selling organic bath and body products. Writing up this case study is particularly special to me because it is run by one of my earliest readers, Carla. Carla was a supporter of this blog from the beginning back when I first started in 2008 and when I had very few readers. So when she asked me to have her online store critiqued, I jumped at the opportunity.
Carla’s main problem is that web traffic is not where she would like it to be. In
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May 28
When most people think about entrepreneurship or starting their own business, the first thing that comes to mind is the risk that is associated with being your own boss. Perhaps that is why entrepreneurship is such an exhilarating and sexy term. It takes guts to go out on your own.
Photo By Better Than Bacon
But the funny thing is that most of the successful entrepreneurs I know are very conservative and don’t like taking risks at all. Ironically, my entrepreneur friends are some of most risk averse people I know! I
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