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Digital Wallets: The Future of Payments

By now, most have witnessed or participated in the early stages of the shift towards using mobile devices as a payment method. We’ve seen many different variations over the past few years of digital payments with smartphone credit card interfaces slowly emerging as the frontrunning format. That could change.

Regardless of what style picks up steam, one thing is certain – the industry is growing. In this infographic by our friends at Intuit, we have a breakdown of the trends and direction towards which the mobile payment industry is heading.

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(H/T: Automotive SEO)

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How Green Are Green Companies?

The focus over the last two decades on companies doing their part to be “green” or eco-friendly has made many businesses change their ways in order to appease their customers. Is it real? Are they truly doing their part to make the world better for the future or are they slapping a recycling sticker on their products and calling it a day?

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Two Things Are Infinite

Albert Einstein was a wise man with a sense of humor.

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If Reddit Were in Harry Potter

For the last two years, I’ve been a closet Reddit fanatic. Some would say I’m not technically in the closet because I spend a good amount of time there every single day (EVERY single day) and I have posted hundreds of articles to the site. The only thing I don’t do often is comment. That’s simply too dangerous.

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High Cost vs High Return: The Alley and the Valley Rule for Tech Companies

When you talk tech companies, the first place that comes to mind is Silicon Valley in San Francisco. It is the home of many of the giants, including Oracle, Google, and Facebook. New York City, aka Silicon Alley, is making moves as the new place to be as Wall Street and big money start taking note and investing into new and risky tech firms.

They’re the two places to be, but is it really worth it? In a world where transactions, meetings, and deals can be made instantly over the Internet, how important is it to be physically in one of the two centers of American technology?

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Important Hypothetical: What if Solar Panels were on EVERY Roof?

It will be very easy for trolls and skeptics to take jabs at the concept. It’s impractical, expensive, inefficient, and extremely unlikely to ever happen in any of our lifetimes. Still, one should ask, “What if?”

This infographic by our friends at 1Bog takes a stab at the question and comes up with some interesting statistics about why it’s not only possible, but something that should be considered (at least on a limited scale).

In the early part of the century, many considered it impossible to create cities or neighborhoods with complete internet coverage, and yet I live in such a city in a house where every room other than restrooms has various types of connections and the neighborhood is flooded with public-access WiFi.

Many thought that it was impossible for Ford to ever recover from the direction they were heading in 2006, but Murfreesboro Ford is a shining example of what can happen when you believe in the possibilities.

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The Evolution of Knowledge Management

As technology continues to make data storage components smaller and yet able to hold more, the processes and equipment used in knowledge management are becoming much more efficient. As a result, the amount of data that people, companies, and even governments attempt to manage are also growing very quickly.

It wasn’t always like this. There was a time when even a sentence could take a long time to put on a “device” that would be able to store it for extended periods of time. Imagine writing on stone tablets.

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Zynga: Path to IPO

Few companies have experienced such a meteoric rise in the gaming industry the way that social gaming company Zynga has in the last 2 years. They’ve bought 15 studios and products in that time and seem poised for a successful IPO. How did they get there?

This graphic by Namesake explores their short but amazing history. When you consider that their products are mostly built for platforms such as Facebook that do not normally focus on gaming, their rise seems even more impressive.

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