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Should States Allow Online Voter Registration?

imgresCurrently, 20 states allow online voter registration. Two additional states have limited online sign-ups, and five more, along with Washington, D.C., have passed (but not implemented) an online registration system. But now, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is trying to make digital registration the norm with a universal [Read More]

May 8th, 2015|Hot, You|

Radio Show Recap: How to Make it as an Entrepreneur

think-entrepreneurWhether you’re making a plan to go it alone or you’re already deep in the trenches of entrepreneurship, the odds of succeeding as a startup have been said to be one out of every 10. So if it really is a one in 10 chance of [Read More]

April 30th, 2015|Hot, You|

nspHire, the Tinder for Job Searches

the officeTired of sifting through resumes and cover letters? We get it.

Avoid all the corporate back-and-forth and cut to the chase with nspHire (free for iOS and Android). The new job matching app for employers and job seekers makes it simple for employers to hire candidates [Read More]

April 29th, 2015|Hot, Job|

WomenOn20s

rosaparksMove over, Andrew Jackson: a new national campaign is out to replace the former president with a fresh face on the $20 bill. The “Women on 20s” movement is going viral, with 80,000 people heading online to pick from potential candidates like suffragist Elizabeth Cady [Read More]

April 28th, 2015|Hot, Life, Stuff, You|

Radio Show Recap: The Business of Marijuana

costeffectiveUp from $1.5 billion dollars in 2013, legal cannabis and CBD oil sales grew 74% to $2.7 billion in 2014 making these popular new wellness products the fastest growing industry in the US. According to Greenwave Advisors, legal cannabis could be an industry with revenues [Read More]

April 23rd, 2015|Hot|

Honk, AAA Roadside Assistance for the Modern Age

img-roadside1There’s nothing fun about needing a tow truck. From the frustration of waiting forever for it to arrive to the unshakable knowledge that you’re about to be gouged for a simple service, it’s a situation most drivers would gladly avoid. And like most industries, the experience [Read More]

April 22nd, 2015|Hot, Life, You|

Jon Ronson on Public Shaming

9k=In the United States, public punishments have been banned since 1839. But nearly two centuries later, it seems like someone’s being flogged in a virtual town square on the Internet every day.

In his new book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, investigative journalist Jon Ronson examines [Read More]

April 21st, 2015|Hot, Stuff, You|

Rebecca Minkoff Supports Women In Tech

min-koffRebecca Minkoff is used to integrating fashion and technology—she introduced several pieces of wearable tech in her spring 2014 collection—but the designer is taking her business ethos to a whole new level. At the UN Women’s Planet 50-50 event (where Hillary Clinton spoke about the #NotThere campaign), [Read More]

April 8th, 2015|Hot, Job, You|

Get Better Skin with Spruce

spruce-appThough many of us would like to think we left acne in high school, the reality is, a lot of us still suffer from breakouts. There are a million reasons zits pop up that have nothing do with hormones, from falling asleep in your makeup (yeah, we’ve [Read More]

April 6th, 2015|Hot, You|

Safeguard Your Smartphone Photos with Bevy

bevyFamilies today often have more photo-taking devices than family members, which has led to the problem of people having massive numbers of photos and videos, none of which are properly organized and shared.

It’s time for spring cleaning, tech version. And that’s where Bevy comes in.

It’s a tiny, network-connected [Read More]

April 3rd, 2015|Fam, Hot, You|