FluentPro Software Corporation announces the official launch of the PPM Express|Time – a smart automated time tracking application that simplifies work time reporting and reduces manual activities needed for logging time entries into the tracker.

SMART Learning Suite helps teachers and administrators save time and simplify lesson delivery with G Suite integration.

Care U, senior contents development and distribution company that runs ICT-based program for seniors

Hackathon competition to find innovative solutions for controlling epidemics like Coronaviruses, SARS, MERS, Ebola, and Zika organized by Somerset, NJ based Thomas Edison Energy Smart Charter School.

Bryant's book shows small business owners why knowing about business technology is essential, even if you don't use it yourself.

Everything about recording your computer screen!

It's called "The Tarps Plus Challenge," an outrageous web series pitting people against tarps in a no-win situation.

Virgin opened personal lawsuits against shocked and distressed key employees of VIRGINIC calling them in Wyoming court an "alter ego" of VIRGINIC company itself. Then proceeded to bring to suit 3 unrelated startups VIRGINIC managers used to work for.

Mr. Small founded HMK Call Center in 2016 to focus on solar energy

Marc Hawk, RevLocal's CEO, and 49 other business leaders were honored with the Columbus Smart 50 Award.

The most common term you might hear from experts these days is smart homes or automated homes. They represent living premises that are loaded with all comfort and ensure a better quality of life.

Humorous Character Mascots Model Positive Behaviours

Taking Agriculture in Nigeria to the Next Level

SmartyAds are teaming up with Protected Media within SmartHub, a white-label ad network to combat ad fraud.

Emira Digital Publishing, a leading online content marketing company in Lagos with a global client base is celebrating the first anniversary of the launch of Smart Entrepreneur Blog.

Liteye's Anti-UAS Defense System and Red Six threat analysis provides current and future defense against expanding small UAS threat

Earlier this month, a criminal investigation that began more than a year ago by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office's Financial Crime Unit in West Palm Beach, Florida ended in the arrest of a used car salesman.

Smart Ring News has launched the first global information website dedicated to Smart Rings to offer consumers and product professionals information about the devices, technologies, innovations, and market!

The network security protection devices offered by The Connectivity Center take a systems approach, working together to provide enhanced defense against purposeful intrusions and unintentional network contamination.

Trinity Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a full service real estate investment bank, announces the origination of a $20MM, high leverage, interest only, bridge loan for the refinance of a CubeSmart self storage facility located in Seattle, WA.

Cottrell was recognized for his work helping small businesses throughout the St. Louis area grow and reach new levels of profitability.

Mark and Terri Stark Bring a Taste of Brooklyn to Wine Country

Priced from the mid $400,000s, Avena in French Valley features four floor plans and a range of three to five bedrooms, three to four baths and approximately 2,585 to 3,070 square feet.

Viking Pest Control introduces the future of pest control to North America

Mr. Smallwood utilizes years of expertise in his role as the senior marketing project manager for Gates Enterprises

'Korean Smart City Business Opportunities Event', held by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and supported by National IT Promotion Agency and KIC Europe, will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on the 19th, during '2019 SCEWC'.

Independent Bakery Sells Out of ''Social Distancing' Gift Boxes Following Howie Mandel Show

The Silver Lining Action Plan is now Pay-What-You-Can for all small businesses globally.

DE WULF launches mismatched sandals line in eight colors; customers mix and match to express their unique, individual style

Developed by medical uniform leader Strategic Partners Inc (SPI), Certainty SmartBoost infuses machine-washable fabrics with protection against bacteria that cause odors and degrade fabric.

Celebrated intimates company Smart&Sexy has re-launched the smartandsexy.com website with numerous enhancements aimed to improve the overall customer experience and brand aesthetic.

Celebrated intimates company Smart&Sexy has created a collection of panties to empower women to get to the polls in 2020.

The world's leading health care apparel company, with a portfolio of iconic and emerging brands, has a new name and website, www.Careismatic.com.

Amazon's Smart Ring launch marks the beginning of a new era for Smart Rings - they are now mainstream, and the market growth will accelerate. Haltian's Smart Ring whitepaper analyzes the market and helps companies define their go-to-market strategy!

As of Thursday evening, more than 40 percent of the funds remained available in the Paycheck Protection Progam

Samsung this week released its May 2020 set of security updates for Android smartphones, which includes a patch for a critical vulnerability impacting all of its devices since 2014. 

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The organization CEOs For Cities released a widely-cited report last month titled Measuring Urban Transportation Performance: A Critique Of Mobility Measures And Synthesis (71p. PDF). Their research finds that the secret to reducing the amount of time Americans spend in peak hour traffic has more to do with how we build our cities than how we build our roads.

The report explains how the cities studied have managed to achieve shorter travel times and actually reduce the peak hour travel times. Some metropolitan areas have land use patterns and transportation systems that enable their residents to take shorter trips and minimize the burden of peak hour travel.

This runs counter to the conclusions of the Texas Transportation Institute's Urban Mobility Report year after year. The CEO For Cities document explains that the UMR approach has completely overlooked the role that variations in travel distances play in driving urban transportation problems.

In the best performing cities -- those that have achieved the shortest peak hour travel distances -- such as Chicago, Portland and Sacramento, the typical traveler spends 40 fewer hours per year in peak hour travel than the average American. Because of smart land use planning and investment in alternative transportation, Portland has seen its average trip lengths decline by 20%.

In contrast, in the most sprawling metropolitan areas, such as Nashville, Indianapolis and Raleigh, the average resident spends as much as 240 hours per year in peak period travel because travel distances are so much greater. The report's 20-page Executive Summary is titled Driven Apart: How Sprawl Is Lengthening Our Commutes And Why Misleading Mobility Measures Are Making Things Worse.

In The New Sharing Economy, a study by Latitude in collaboration with Shareable Magazine, the authors look at new opportunities for sharing.

An interesting graph (click to enlarge) plots various endeavors on a market saturation and latent demand scale. The resulting plot points fall into four quandrants, labeled:

Low Interest and Low Prior Success (e.g. bike, outdoor sporting goods)

Done Well Already (e.g. work space, storage space, food co-op)

Opportunities Still Remain (e.g. physical media, digital media)

Best New Opportunities (automobile, time/responsibilities, money lending/borrowing)

This last category, Best New Opportunities, provides the launch point for discussion of car sharing. The report notes that there's still a large amount of unfulfilled demand for car-sharing. More than half of all participants surveyed either shared vehicles casually or weren't sharing currently but expressed interest in doing so. For people who share in an organized fashion, cars and bikes were popular for sharing amongst family and close friends but weren't commonly shared outside this immediate network, relative to other categories of goods.

This intriguing and visually appealing report goes on to point out the new sharing takeaways for non-sharing businesses, including "we-based brands," the value in social and alternative currencies, and the "contagiousness" of sharing.

Finally, Transportation For America recently released a White Paper titled Smart Mobility For A 21st Century America: Strategies For Maximizing Technology To Minimize Congestion, Reduce Emissions And Increase Efficiency (39p. PDF).

It proposes that improving transportation efficiency through operational innovation is critical as our population grows and ages, budgets tighten and consumer preferences shift.

As Congress prepares to review and reauthorize the nation’s transportation program, an array of innovations that were either overlooked or did not exist at the time of previous authorizations can be incentivized.

Just as the Internet, smart phones and social media changed they way we acquire news, listen to music or connect with friends and family, these same innovations have implications for how we move around. While high-tech gadgets can be a problem when they distract motorists from driving, they open up a whole new world for people using other modes.

But what if we could manage traffic to help drivers avoid congestion before they get stuck in it? What if you always knew when the next bus was going to arrive, the closest parking space or which train car had a seat available for you? The innovative technologies and strategies outlined in the White Paper include:

Making transportation systems more efficient (e.g. ramp meters, highway advisory radio)
Providing more travel options (e.g. online databases to match up vanpool riders, car-sharing services)
Providing travelers with better, more accurate, and more connected information (e.g. computerized vehicle tracking)
Making pricing and payments more convenient and efficient (e.g. EZ passes, electronic benefits)
Reducing trips and traffic (flex-time, consolidating services online)

Everyone is calling for smart growth...but what exactly is it?

In The Smart Growth Manual (New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2009), two leading city planners provide a thorough answer. From the expanse of the metropolis to the detail of the window box, they address the pressing challenges of urban development with easy-to-follow advice and broad array of best practices.

With their landmark book Suburban Nation, Andres Duany and Jeff Speck "set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning" (The New Yorker).

In this long-awaited companion volume, the authors have organized the latest contributions of new urbanism, green design, and healthy communities into a comprehensive handbook, fully illustrated with the built work of the nation's leading practitioners.

This work also features a valuable Smart Growth Directory, with contact information for national, regional and state organizations.

Lieutenant Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom, writing as Mayor of San Francisco, touted The Smart Growth Manual as "an indispensable guide to city planning. This kind of progressive development is the only way to full restore our economic strength and create new jobs, new industries, and a renewed ability to compete in the first rank of world economies."

An extensive interview with the authors is featured on the American Society of Landscape Architects "The Dirt" blog.

The conventional wisdom says that we need strict planning to build walkable neighborhoods around transit stations - even though these neighborhoods are like the streetcar suburbs that were common in America before anyone heard of city planning.

In reality, many of our greatest successes in urban design have occurred when we treated the issues as political questions - not as technical problems that the planners should solve for us.

According to Unplanning: Livable Cities And Political Choices (Berkeley, Calif.: Preservation Institute, 2010), the anti-freeway movement of the 1960s and 1970s and the anti-sprawl movement of recent decades were both political movements, and citizen-activists often had to work against projects that planners proposed and approved.

This book uses an intriguing thought experiment to show that, in order to build livable cities, we should go further than the anti-freeway and anti-sprawl movements by putting direct political limits on urban growth.

Political choices about how we want to live can transform our cities more effectively than planning.

On this week's Xbox podcast, the next Grand Theft Auto is in development, and we discuss the report that it may be a more "moderately sized" offering that's updated continuously. Plus: Microsoft may have an opportunity to gain some market share at the start of the generation after a Bloomberg report reveals Sony's scaled-back PS5 production plans, Crysis is the latest member of the remaster club, and more!

Barbara Kellerman, lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of "Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders."

Sydney Finkelstein, Tuck School of Business professor and author of "Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes."

Andrew Waldeck, partner at Innosight and coauthor of the HBR article "The New M&A Playbook."

Anita Woolley, assistant professor of organizational behavior and theory at Carnegie Mellon University and coauthor of the HBR article "What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women."

Cass Sunstein, Harvard professor and author of "Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter."

Denise Lee Yohn, author of "Extraordinary Experiences" and "What Great Brands Do," explains what we can learn from retail and restaurant brands

Todd Rose, the Director of the Mind, Brain, & Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of "The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness," explains why we should stop using averages to understand individuals.

The research shows we shouldn't be afraid to ask for help. Francesca Gino and Alison Wood Brooks, both of Harvard Business School, explain.

Bill von Hippel, professor at the University of Queensland, on how the ability to think and respond quickly makes someone seem more charismatic.

Sales and marketing firm Smart Advantages take time out to enjoy Winterval in Waterford, Ireland.

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• House lawmakers on Friday demanded five large, publicly traded companies return the $10 million loans they received that were meant for small businesses. 
• Only one company, MiMedx, said it would return the $10 million Paycheck Protection Program loans.
• Just 48 public companies of the 387 that received PPP loans have returned the money. 
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US representatives blasted five publicly traded companies for taking Paycheck Protection Program loans means for small businesses, leading at least one to return the money.

The House subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis sent letters] to MiMedx, Quantum, EVO Transportation & Energy Services, Gulf Island Fabrication, Universal Stainless, and Alloy Products on Friday demanding they return loans received from the treasury. MiMedx said late Friday it was repaying its $10 million loan.

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