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...Store launched. Pangea started out selling it for $9.99. "The iPhone App Store has been a textbook example of supply and demand because at first there was a huge demand for the new apps, but there was a very small supply of them - only a few dozen games," founder Brian Greenstone told me. "So we could charge $9.99 easily for them...
...future, green energy advocate Amory B. Lovins said in a talk at the Science Center yesterday evening. “We are often given a multiple choice test in the media. We must choose between climate change, oil wars, or nuclear holocaust,” said Lovins, the co-founder of the sustainability-research organization Rocky Mountain Institute. “We are never given the choice of ‘none of the above,’ when all these problems go away if we use energy in a money-saving way.” Comparing present models...
...point on my GPA,” Moran admits. But things are looking up for the fledgling Web site. As of last week, GradeFund claimed over 800 users, 34 of them with Harvard affiliations, according to Michael Kopko. GradeFund also scored its first corporate sponsor in ZooToo.com founder and president Richard Thompson. An entrepreneur himself, Thompson said that he does his best to support young people who act upon their ideas such as Kopko with GradeFund. “Do it the day you come out of college,” he said of starting your own business...
...ringers on the grounds that they block foot traffic and invite others to solicit at entryways, the Salvation Army says it raised $118 million through the program in 2007. (The charity is also in the process of distributing a $1.5 billion donation from Joan Kroc, the wife of the founder of McDonald's, to open community centers around the country.) In the U.S., there are nearly 8,000 Salvation Army locations, and more than 3 million volunteers assisting nearly 30 million people a year. Worldwide, the charity operates in more than 100 countries...
Still, those numbers are just a portion of the overall foreclosures in South Florida. Peter Zalewski, founder of Condo Vultures, projects that nearly 75,000 properties in the tri-county area will slip into foreclosure this year, up from 33,154 last year...