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...sure: Bedbugs are a growing problem internationally and across the United States. According to the National Pest Management Association, its member pest control companies, which used to receive one or two bedbug calls a year, are now reporting as many each week. Maciej Ceglowski who runs bedbugregistry.com, an online user-generated database tracking infestations in apartment buildings and hotels in North America, says he saw a "huge spike" in reports in 2009 - though he can't say whether the increase was due to the spread of bedbugs or simply to the growing popularity of his site. (The registry...
...some heady problems to face before reaching critical mass. There's competition from a slew of similar sites, including Google Latitude (reborn from the wreckage of Dodgeball) and Gowalla, and there are rampant rumors that both Facebook and Twitter are interested in figuring out new ways to harness user locations in 2010. But the biggest challenge? Taking something that's popular in the young, tech-heavy communities on the coasts and making it appeal to moms and dads in between. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...thirtysomething entrepreneurs, many with U.S. work experience, who are creating home-grown franchises catering to the burgeoning world of the web in China. Baidu, the rival search engine to Google, is most in the news lately; others include web portal and entertainment companies Sina and Netease; on-line, multi-user gaming company Shanda (which recently made an acquisition of an American gaming company and plans to expand to the United States); internet and mobile applications giant Tencent; and a host of others, some public, some still in start-up mode. (See the best business deals...
Foursquare’s mobile application—which is available for download for several smartphones, including the iPhone—incorporates an interactive video game aspect. Application users earn points by visiting different locations featured on foursquare. When a user arrives at a venue, the application’s GPS recognizes the location and prompts users to “check-in”, earning points for the user...
...Users who accumulate the requisite number of points can earn various badges, which now include a “Harvard Yard” badge. In addition, the user who frequents a particular venue the most becomes the “mayor” of that location—for example, a user could become the “mayor” of Widener Library or the Science Center...