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Twitch.TV: Amazon’s Newest Acquisition
This article was written by Phineas Upham In the next four to five years, the amount of hours spent watching people play video games online will have grown to 6.5 billion. That is a huge chunk of media time, and Amazon has announced it wants a piece of that in the form of a company named “Twitch.Tv.” Twitch is like the YouTube of online gaming videos. It hosts videos pre-recorded, and it also allows gamers to stream their current game state using a variety of third-party applications. Gamers accept donations in the form of subscriptions, which entitle their audience to enjoy their streams ad-free along with other benefits. The company…
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Making Students Smarter with Knewton
This article was written by Phineas Upham Knewton was founded in 2008 by Jose Ferreira, who came from Kaplan before that. Ferreira wanted to begin a company based around the concept of “adaptive learning,” or learning that uses computers as interactive teaching tools. Knewton is technology platform, not an app itself. The difference is in the details. Where an application has pre-defined goals in mind (IE, getting students to learn or to read from a certain text book), a platform is focused on providing a tool set for students to grow with. Knewton’s tools track student performance, and provide a real-time analysis of a student’s behavior and learning. Knewton uses…
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The Nissan Car Company
This article was written by Phineas Upham The first Nissan car was built in 1914. It was called a DAT, which was an acronym of the names of the investor’s families, but it sold well enough to put the company into the auto making market. The company went through several early name changes, finally settling on DAT Jidosha & Co., LTD in 1925. They began producing trucks to carry freight for the military. The consumer market for passenger cars was basically non-existent, with only the most affluent able to afford the costs of producing one. DAT merged with an auto parts maker for trucks in 1926. This was the beginning…
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A Business Venture In Arts And Crafts
By John Woodson Do people constantly tell you how good you are with crafts? Are they surprised to find out you made your own clothes, jewelry or other accessories? Do they love getting gifts from you that you made by hand? If so, it sounds like you have a real talent. While it makes sense that you’ll want to continue pursuing these activities, you may be thinking too small. What if you could make money from this thing you love so much? What if one day your bracelet kits, headbands, earrings or whatever it is you like to make actually allowed you to quit your current job and spend all…
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Cayman Island Real Estate is Primed for Summer
With summer upon us, the real estate market in the Cayman Islands is showing promising signs of improvement.
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Jet Blue Corporate History
This article was written by Phineas Upham Jet Blue was founded by David Neeleman, and it is a Delaware based company that was incorporated in August of 1998. Neeleman called his new company “NewAir.” Neeleman and some of the executives in JetBlue came from Southwest Airlines, and the company began life by offering a low-cost fare to incentivize travel. The trick was that they also offered some in-flight amenities, like television and satellite radio stations, at every seat on the plane. Neeleman said, in his own words, that he hoped “to bring humanity back to air travel.” It got permission to occupy 75 spots at John F. Kennedy airport for…