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Bloomberg Reports CenturyLink is Considering Acquiring Rackspace

SiliconHills

Rackspace Hosting’s stock closed up nearly 7 percent on Monday after Bloomberg News reported the company was talking to CenturyLink, a Louisiana-based Internet and telecommunications company, about a possible buyout. Rackspace’s stock, traded under the symbol RAX on the New York Stock Exchange, closed at $39.79

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Use Your Tax Refund To Grow Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

In today’s world, cyber thieves from all over the world scroll through the Internet looking for vulnerable websites. She is a graduate of Louisiana State University and has more than 12 years of professional experience in the equipment financing industry.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

The bank lends to groups of women, with each receiving $50 to $100 to buy rickshaws for transporting wheat to market or to help them open Internet kiosks. Since its organization in 1999, SHARE has become the biggest microfinance institution in India, and its success has prompted other banks to begin their own microfinance programs.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Our vision was to create the most wide selection of kettlebells on the internet, so we toyed with names like ‘Kettlebell Superstore, Kettlebells Plus, More Kettlebell (after an SNL skit about cowbells) and names that we thought implied a wide selection. Or they'd been taken on the internet.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It was the central node of the consumer Internet industry. Who flourishes?

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). The Netherlands ranks top place in a large number of ICT indicators.