After the world learned that Notre Dame linebacker Manti T'eo's online girlfriend never existed, CNN invited readers to share their own online dating ups and downs.
"I've got so many proposals for bookstores and CD sites on my desk right now, you wouldn't believe, " says Hanson Cheah, a Hong Kong venture capitalist specializing in online start-ups.
So cheap have the big, established brokers become that online start-ups such as Kiwoom.com, which opened last month, are struggling to win customers, despite its offer of free trading until the end of June.
The move also comes amid radical shifts to the education business, with online start-ups and top-flight colleges pushing more and more students to the Internet for low- and n0-cost education, and local school districts across the nation cutting budgets amid financial pressures.
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Gransnet Local will extend the support and friendship we offer online into meet-ups and will provide a forum to discuss everything that's going on locally.
Google for search marketing, PayPal for online payment, DHL and UPS for delivery, Amazon for cloud computing, and Akami for web content distribution.
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The DOJ said the fine amount is the money UPS collected from suspect online pharmacies.
At Toyota Ertmann's unedited online ramblings occasionally make higher-ups uneasy.
United Parcel Service Inc ( NYSE: UPS), according to The Online Investor.
AngelList is an online matching-making site for start-ups and angel investors.
But advance bookings may grow, thanks to a boom in start-ups competing to become the prime online aggregator of such transactions, such as GetYourGuide and Zozi.
And while Microsoft and Google battle it out, venture capital-backed start-ups are pouring resources into creating ever slicker online applications.
Offerings from start-ups such as AdventNet's Zoho and ThinkFree Online go further than Google does in offering a rich array of free, Web-based business applications.
Does community building always take place online, or do you build and sustain it through meet-ups and in-person participation in major events?
E-Trade, the poster child of the once-glittering online brokers, suffered a 70% drop in customer sign-ups in the June quarter from a year ago.
The power of online learning communities is more visible in lean-running start-ups where skills must shift quickly, but I think their effect will be more profound in established companies on a global scale.
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Created in 2008 by the founders of YouNoodle, an online community for entrepreneurs, the assessment was based on traits start-ups shared with some 2, 000 companies that were more than three years old.
"Tax reductions and refunds are very important mechanisms for start-ups, " said Sylviane Kamga of I-DISPO, an online-booking service.
It has funded several of the continent's most successful start-ups, notably Skype, MySQL and Last.fm, an online music service.
For example, online crowdfunding channels like Kickstarter.com and IndieGoGo.com can help start-ups land financing to grow.
Doing it online, while not as prone to streaming issues as it once was, only ups that excitement.
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Try compiling a list of start-ups in your city by looking in a local business journal or searching online.
The effort is part of a recent rush of colleges, start-ups and nonprofits tapping a mix of Web services and software to open online educational ventures.
All of the leading retailers have tried to spruce up their online act during the downturn, but few have done as well as start-ups such as Gilt Groupe, which uses social networking to carry out discounted sales of designer-label clothes and homeware, and luxury holidays.
At Freshbooks.com, a Toronto-based company that makes online accounting software, teams try to do daily 10 a.m. stand-ups.
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He is also expected to devote resources to several emerging lines of business, including online business software division Google Apps, and to continue to make acquisitions of start-ups.
Marc Katz, 34, co-founder of online T-shirt printer CustomInk, who learned what it was like to live with the ups and downs of starting three different businesses, from father Steve Katz, 62.
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As more people shop online for holiday gifts, shipping volumes are expected to rise for delivery companies like FedEx and UPS, which have delivery contracts with several large Internet retailers, including eBay and Amazon.
Start-ups and other financial companies can quickly create FDIC-insured bank accounts, move money online and do payment processing using BancBox.
Steve Jones, a professor of online culture and communications at the University of Illinois at Chicago, wondered whether all the mash-ups muddle the message.
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