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This is a bit more geeky than we like to get here at Smallbizlabs, but the rise of big data is resulting in growing numbers of people being exposed to statistical data and jargon. A spurious correlation is a statistical term that describes a relationship between two variables that seem to ...

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Staffing firm Allegis and the Human Capital Institute teamed up on a study on how corporate procurement and HR departments view the growing contingent workforce.   It's a broad based study looking at a number of issues related to the contingent workforce. But I most liked the chart below, which ...

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from http://www.smallbizlabs.com 2 days ago

Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in Labor Markets and Education is a fascinating study by noted MIT economist economist David Autor and MIT PhD student Melanie Wasserman.  They suggest that an emerging economic gender gap favoring women is developing. This gap is being driven by the underperformance of boys ...

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from http://www.smallbizlabs.com 2 days ago

The most recent BLS jobs report showed that almost 500,000 Americans left the workforce in March, resulting in the workforce participation rate falling to 63.3%.  This is the lowest its been since 1979.   There's a pretty active debate over what's driving this decrease. We covered this last year in our ...

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from http://www.smallbizlabs.com 2 days ago

Greg Lindsay's NY Times article Engineering Serendipity is a fascinating look at how companies are trying to increase the amount of serendipity that happens at their firms. It includes a good description of serendipity: The term, coined by the British aristocrat Horace Walpole in a 1754 letter, long referred to ...

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from http://www.smallbizlabs.com 2 days ago

Older workers - those over the age of 65 - don't get much attention from researchers or the media. The reason is pretty straight forward. Historically the vast majority of older people were not in the workforce.  But that's changing. Over the last decade the workforce participation rate for Americans ...

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from http://www.smallbizlabs.com 2 days ago

Bitcoin is an online digital currency. It was introduced in 2009 as an electronic alternative to traditional money. Because of this, Bitcoin is a truly decentralized currency totally independent of any government entity. Bitcoins can be used just like any other currency (at least online). You can buy things with ...

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from http://www.smallbizlabs.com 2 days ago

Paid Content has an interesting article on media becoming a barbell industry.   Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 2 days ago

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale 24 hours after Google released three location tools for its app developers, startups are already integrating the APIs into their products. The founders of Valet stayed up all night to get the brand new API into their app as ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 2 days ago

Two days ago Google announced it would finally support the most popular computing language on the planet, PHP, in its platform-as-a-service offering, Google App Engine. That means that yes, at some point you’ll be able to run your little WordPress-powered blog on the biggest server farms on the planet. But ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 2 days ago

Readers, I think we need to talk. Communication is really important and I’m just feeling like I need more ways to connect with you. Good thing investors dumped millions into communications-based companies today. We saw $10 million go to a texting app that competes with companies such as WhatsApp and ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 2 days ago

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Bang With Friends’ newborn iPhone app no longer appears in the Apple App Store, leaving “down to bang” iPhone users wondering why. The company’s chief executive Colin Hodge told Valleywag that the app recently passed over one million users, ...

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Customer service requests are only useful if someone hears (and responds) to them. Nevahold is a startup from Ghana trying to help customers get their voices heard. Nevahold is a platform where people rally together to get the attention of large companies. Users compose a “shout” and share it with ...

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from http://venturebeat.com/ 2 days ago

This sponsored post is produced by the SAP Startup Focus Program. We provide technology, support, resources and community to Big Data, Predictive or Real-time Analytics startups to jumpstart development and accelerate market traction. We currently serve a network of over 250 startups across the globe. Is your startup a Big ...

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July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Nonprofits are waking up to the benefits of having a mobile and social media strategy. Cure.org raises money for children in need, and it’s experimenting with a suite of mobile apps to draw attention to the cause. Launching this ...

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