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In Less than Two Months Overstock Surpasses $1 Million in Sales Made in Bitcoin

Less than two months after beginning to accept Bitcoin payments, Overstock.com has processed over $1 million of sales in the digital currency. More than 4,000 customers have used Bitcoin as a payment method on Overstock and more than half of the orders came from new Overstock customers, according to the Coinbase blog. Overstock began accepting… Continue reading In Less than Two Months Overstock Surpasses $1 Million in Sales Made in Bitcoin

Parents Can Relax about Their Kids Using Social Media

It’s natural for parents to worry about their children. And when it comes to social media, parents have been presented with some scary stories regarding online sexual predators. The dangers may not as be far-reaching, however, as the media would have parents believe according to a recent by the Crimes Against Children Research Center. According… Continue reading Parents Can Relax about Their Kids Using Social Media

How 25 Years of the World Wide Web Have Transformed the Ways We Interact With Technologies and Each Other

March 12 marks the 25th anniversary of the day Sir Tim Berners-Lee released a paper on what would become the structure of the World Wide Web. After Berners-Lee released the code for his system of linking computers in a user-friendly way, and Web browsers became more sophisticated, the Web as we know it today began… Continue reading How 25 Years of the World Wide Web Have Transformed the Ways We Interact With Technologies and Each Other

Kickstarter Surpasses $1 Billion in Pledges With More than Half Pledged in the Past Year Alone

Kickstarter, the site for crowdfunding your ideas, surpassed $1 billion in pledges today. More than half of that amount was pledged in the last 12 months alone. The pledges represent over 5.7 million backers in 224 countries and territories in all seven continents. The top-pledding country is the United States with over $663 million pledged.… Continue reading Kickstarter Surpasses $1 Billion in Pledges With More than Half Pledged in the Past Year Alone

How Do the Big Food Companies Score When It Comes to Social Responsibility? [CHART]

The world’s biggest food brands are notorious for creating less-than-stellar working conditions for farmers and abusing water and land rights. Increased consumer and political pressure, though, is leading to gradually improving conditions and transparency among the world’s ‘Big 10’ food companies like Nestle, PepsiCo, Unilever and Coca-Cola. Through its Behind the Brands campaign Oxfam is… Continue reading How Do the Big Food Companies Score When It Comes to Social Responsibility? [CHART]

The State of Mobile Communications and the Journey from 1G to 5G [INFOGRAPHIC]

Did you know by 2020 there will 30 times more mobile traffic than there was in 2010? In a new report by the European Commission, the vision of what future 5G networks and the internet of things (plus people) will look is visualized as we move from mobile broadband to faster fiber technologies. On a… Continue reading The State of Mobile Communications and the Journey from 1G to 5G [INFOGRAPHIC]

Charitable Giving Report: How Nonprofit Fundraising Performed in 2013

Do you like to donate to causes and give to others? You may not be alone, as charitable giving grew 4.9% in 2013, according to a new report by Blackbaud. Blackbaud analyzed data from 4,129 nonprofit organization representing $12.5 billion in total funds raised during 2013. Blackbaud found that online giving accounted for 6.4% of… Continue reading Charitable Giving Report: How Nonprofit Fundraising Performed in 2013