Saturday March 9, 2013
Apple Inc. currently has more money than the United States government. It could afford to buy everyone in the United States an iPod Touch and still have a lot of money left.
Young professionals who were born after 1982 tend to change their jobs every 13 months.
A study shows that 80% of the top 50 game-changing innovations over the past century were triggered by people whose main expertise was outside of the field in which the innovation breakthrough occurred.
Bangalore,the IT hub of India, has more A-Grade offices than Singapore.
Business Wire reported that the use of social networks to render referrals by jobseekers has increased their success by 27%.
According to Business Insider, Chinahas grown seven times faster than America in terms of its economyover the past 10 years.
The first hair dryer was actually a vacuum cleaner! Women around the turn of the century used vacuum cleaners as their hair dryer by connecting a hose to either the front of the vacuum cleaner which sucked the air in, or the back of it, which blew air out.
Shopping carts were inspired by the folding chair and thus, the first shopping carts were called the “folding basket carriers”. The first shopping carts consisted of a metal frame which could hold two wire baskets.
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