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RadioShack announced that it will be closing 1,100 stores in response to a lackluster 2013 holiday season. The 93-year-old electronics retailer suffered $400 million dollars in losses in 2013 compared to $139 million in 2012, according to the New York Times. As if hemorrhaging profits weren’t bad e Read More

Kickstarter, the site for crowdfunding your ideas, surpassed $1 billion in pledges today. More than half of that amount was pledged in the last 12 months alone. The pledges represent over 5.7 million backers in 224 countries and territories in all seven continents. Read More

Across the U.S. small businesses like coffee shops and drug stores struggle to compete with national chains like Starbucks and Duane Reade. They fight to stay afloat against the competition and many eventually go under, replaced by the very corporations that priced them out. Many of us are sad to s Read More

A little over a year ago, Coca-Cola decided to revamp its website to become a major content source where people could get information and news from blog posts, videos and more. The rise of content marketing inspired the company to shift focus and create the new Coca-Cola Journey website. Read More

Twitter's IPO generated a lot of speculation about the social media site's ability to generate revenue. Yes, Twitter is very popular with an active user base of 241 million people. This growth, however, is slowing, as telling statistics from Q3 to Q4 2013 show. Read More

I knew we were in for some entertainment during last night's Super Bowl when the referee intercepted hall-of-fame quarterback Joe Namath's coin toss to start the night. But if you weren't too busy watching the Broncos get pounded by the Seahawks last night, you might have noticed there were some gr Read More

Do you read articles on Flipboard? More than six million magazines have been created so far and Flipboard has just released some new widgets and profile badges to help publishers and bloggers promote their Flipboard presence on the web. Read More

Computers and internet technology play tremendous roles in making the world more connected. But did you know that many of the parts used to manufacture computer hardware come from war-torn and violent regions of the world? Read More

It looks like people aren't the only ones swimming around Twitter these days, as sharks in Western Australia have also taken a liking to the microblogging service. That's right, sharks have gone social and will send out a tweet every time they are located within about half a mile of shore. Read More

Are you looking to step up your marketing efforts in 2014? Last year we shared with you the top 10 most overused buzzwords people are "responsible" for on LinkedIn. Today we reveal 10 "innovative" and "creative" New Year's resolutions for "strategic" marketers (gone wrong) based on these same "effe Read More