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From Miami, taking stock of climate risks

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From Miami, taking stock of climate risks
The President's Climate Action Plan (PDF) outlined several greenhouse gas-reduction initiatives and established a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience (PDF) to support communities at the frontlines of climate impacts. Yet an essential …
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A guide into the weird numbers that run our world, describing both financial …
The following examples suggest that some extreme events are even “wilder” than predicted by the extrapolation of the power law distributions. They can be termed “outliers” or even better “kings”. According to the definition of the Engineering …
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YouTube's Sexy Sleep Whisperers
Yale University neurologist Steven Novella has compared it to migraine headaches: “We know they exist as a syndrome primarily because many different people report the same constellation of symptoms and natural history,” he writes on his blog, adding …
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Casper Raises $1.6 Million from Investors Including Lerer Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners

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New York, NY (PRWEB) February 25, 2014

Casper, the company delivering a better sleep experience with better designed mattresses and a superior delivery system, today announces the close of a $ 1.6 million dollar seed round. Led by Lerer Ventures, the round also includes investments from Norwest Venture Partners, Crosslink Partners, Vaizra Investments, and Correlation Ventures.

Casper’s founding team is a mix of e-commerce professionals and design engineers who share a vision to boost creativity, productivity, and health through an improved sleep experience. Philip Krim, co-founder and CEO, sold over 40,000 beds online through an e-commerce company he started as a sophomore at the University of Texas. Jeff Chapin, co-founder and product lead, worked on R&D and design for Sealy while at IDEO in Boston.

Casper, launching in late Spring, will initially offer a single mattress construction. The mattress is designed and engineered with comfort in mind: it contours to the body, reduces pressure, eliminates sinking in and overheating, but also provides excellent bounce-back – a welcome addition for mattress activities other than sleep. By eliminating costs associated with retail partnerships, distribution, and storage, Casper is able to reinvest in the product.

“We’ve made a concerted effort to focus on the elements that actually affect sleep – you would be shocked at the games retailers and manufacturers play solely for marketing purposes with no added benefit to the consumer,” says Krim. “It’s a liberating opportunity to make a bed from scratch, solely on our own terms.”

“I have been sleeping on a Casper for the last couple of months and I can only say that the sleep is awesome,” says Ben Lerer, Managing Director at Lerer Ventures. “The entire team is perfectly suited to take their vision of what people need for a better night’s sleep and transform the entire category.”

“Mattress shopping is a viewed by a large percentage of the market as one of the more difficult and frustrating shopping experiences, only surpassed by the experience of buying a used car,” said Josh Goldman, general partner at Norwest Venture Partners. “Casper is focused on fixing this archaic process that consumers endure today by bringing a high quality product to the $ 12.4B mattress market at an extremely disruptive price point. We have the utmost confidence that the leadership and design expertise of this team will deliver some much-needed transparency to the sleep industry.”

Casper products will be available in the coming months at http://www.caspersleep.com. The company is currently accepting applicants for their beta testing program.

About Casper

Casper is rewriting the rules of the mattress industry by providing a universally comfortable sleep experience. With better sleep comes more productivity and creativity. Casper’s mattress is a responsive one – designed to contour to your body, reduce pressure, ensure you won’t sink in or overheat, but also provide excellent bounce-back – perfect for mattress activities other than sleep. By eliminating storage and retail partners, Casper’s superior mattresses cost a third of the closest retail equivalent. Please visit http://www.caspersleep.com/ and follow us on Twitter @caspersleep.

About Lerer Ventures

Lerer Ventures is a New York-based, seed stage venture capital fund led by managing directors Kenneth Lerer, Eric Hippeau, Ben Lerer and Jordan Cooper. LV invests in founders in the earliest stages of a startup’s life, seeking out entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and unwavering ambition. Its portfolio includes BuzzFeed, Warby Parker, Thrillist, Birchbox, Percolate, Sailthru, Fullscreen, Songza, Chartbeat, RebelMouse, Refinery29 and many more.

About Norwest Venture Partners

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a multi-stage venture capital and growth equity investment firm that has partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years. The firm manages over $ 3.7 billion in capital and has funded more than 500 companies since inception. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., NVP has subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India and Herzelia, Israel. NVP makes early to late-stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including: technology, information services, business services, financial services, consumer products/services and healthcare. For more information, please visit http://www.nvp.com and follow NVP on Twitter @NorwestVP.







Mobile Phone Companies, Cheapest Mobile Plans, Methods Of Working From Home

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Why don't political protests work? What are the larger lessons from our …

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Why don't political protests work? What are the larger lessons from our …
What we've witnessed in recent years is the popularization of street marches without a plan for what happens next and how to keep protesters engaged and integrated in the political process. It's just the latest manifestation of the dangerous …. We …
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Open Text Management Discusses Q3 2014 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
I'd also like to direct investors to the Investor Relations section of our website, where we have posted an updated PowerPoint that will be referred to during the call, as well as a summary table highlighting OpenText historical trend and financial …
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Loeb Wins Key Ally In Sotheby's Battle
“Now is not the time to diverge from Sotheby's leadership and its strategic plan. We believe that replacing any of Sotheby's … Loeb had also built a web site and issued a PowerPoint presentation in an effort to sway investors. Tags:bid dan loeb …
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How to sell real estate to billionaires from China

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How to sell real estate to billionaires from China
Forget any old-fashioned ideas you may have, and treat your female Chinese buyers with the respect they deserve. Give them the same … Wealthy Chinese are just like any other good business people who have made their own fortunes. They can be tough …
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Would Your Social Media Marketing Campaign Pass the Test?
If you know anything about social media marketing, you understand that it has the power to make or break your business. … Through the use of sharing, social media networking increases your visibility, adds to your credibility, and gives you a free …
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What John Paul II's bodyguard learned from him

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What John Paul II's bodyguard learned from him
For two years, he got an up close and personal view of what John Paul II was like as a leader — lessons that he applied to his own business career and that inspired him to write a book in 2011, The Pope and the CEO: John Paul II's Leadership Lessons …
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SinglePoint, Inc. Executes Letter of Intent to Acquire Digital Signage Network …
The acquisition, which will consist of cash and stock, advances SinglePoint's strategy to offer a comprehensive package of marketing, CRM, payments and other relevant solutions to its clientele including those clients in the medical marijuana industry …
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Letter: Main Street Project (by Selectman Bill Boland)
I think this blog has continued to do a great job keeping the town informed. I do not, however, … “This is the State's Plan”. The Main Street Project has been being studied for far too many years. It is being referred to by those who are now against …
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Unlimited Smartphone from Republic Wireless Gets Even Better: New Republic Wireless Wi-Fi+ App Makes it Easier Than Ever to Log-into Public Wi-Fi Hotspots

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Raleigh, NC (PRWEB) March 07, 2013

Republic Wireless, home of the Wi-Fi and cellular unlimited smartphone plan for as little as $ 19 a month, announces a new Android app, Republic Wireless Wi-Fi+. With Wi-Fi+, it’s easier than ever for members to check the strength and quality of a particular Wi-Fi connection and automatically log their phones on to more than 12 million public Wi-Fi hotspots around the world as curated by the hugely popular crowd sourced Devicescape solution.

“From day 1, Republic Wireless has strived to simplify the world of wireless and lower the costs of owning a smartphone for all consumers. To be able to provide talking, texting and unlimited data for just $ 19 a month, our model relies on members to use Wi-Fi whenever possible,” said David Morken, co-founder and president of Bandwidth, parent of Republic Wireless. “The Republic Wireless Wi-Fi+ app makes logging into public hotspots quick and easy.”

Morken adds: “This is about simplifying our member’s experience. There are thousands of public networks all over the world and they are all different. Some use captive-portals that require you to login using a web browser. Sometimes you need to establish an account, which may or may not be free, and type in credentials such as a username and password, or your email. Other networks require you to accept some terms and conditions. All of this is a lot of hassle for someone trying to quickly lookup information or check an email on their smartphone. We think the Republic Wireless Wi-Fi+ app raises the member experience to a new level.”

The Wi-Fi+ app provides the Republic Wireless unlimited smartphone three distinct upgrades:

1.    Automatic access to over 12 million Wi-Fi hotspots. Using technology from our partner Devicescape, the phone recognizes available networks, how to log into them, where they are located, how popular they are, and how well they work.

2.    Connection verification. A Wi-Fi+ onscreen widget shows the strength of your Wi-Fi connection. Like any network, Wi-Fi signal strength is largely dependent on the number of users at a given time and what they are doing the network. This can be issue when using a public hotspot at a popular café or the local McDonald’s and Starbucks. If this is the case, the Republic Wireless unlimited smartphone works just like a regular phone on the nationwide network of Sprint. There is no additional cost when you use the cellular network.

3.    Smarter monitoring. Wi-Fi+ provides an on-phone widget to provide feedback about how much Wi-Fi you use versus cellular, and how your use stacks up with the Republic Wireless community.

Republic Wireless rocked the wireless industry in 2011 when it debuted the country’s cheapest smartphone plan at $ 19 per month for talking, texting and unlimited data. Republic Wireless leverages both Wi-Fi and cellular networks to make phone calls, send text message and surf the web.

About Republic Wireless

It’s really simple: Want to save money? Republic Wireless offers the nation’s cheapest smartphone plan. Republic Wireless, a division of Bandwidth, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, is spearheading a wireless freedom movement to return value and control of the smartphone experience to members by leveraging the power of Wi-Fi and an engaged community of users. Republic Wireless offers unlimited data, text, and voice service for $ 19 per month, with no contract. Our Hybrid Calling uses Wi-Fi in the home, office or anywhere else as the primary network for calls, texts and data. When outside of Wi-Fi coverage, the smartphone works just like a typical cellphone on the national cellular network of Sprint. Visit http://www.republicwireless.com/ for more information. Media resource center here.

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How to Ask For a Quote From a Moving Company?

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Whenever we plan to move, we keep many things in mind for example when to move, how to move, which moving company should be hired? And one more important point is how much will it cost when we hire a moving company?
You cannot make a final plan unless you have a rough estimate of the transportation cost. So the first thing that you should do is ask for a quotation for hiring a moving company. With this quotation you can plan further according to your budget. Mostly the professional moving companies have their websites with all their information. You can find their contact number, their address and you can even get free estimate. This is a great way to provide you convenience from these professional movers.
If you want to have quotation from a moving company, you just need to search their website on the internet. There you will find their quotation form; you need to fill that to get the quotation for free.
In the free online estimation form, you have to fill some information about your move plan and details of your cargo. There would be some columns which you have to fill and they are about the move program. You can have the idea about reading below.
Estimated move date and estimated freight size:Decide a date fill in the date column and fill a rough idea about the size of your freight in the column.
Start point to destination: Of course you need to fill this information, so write your existing address and the address of the place where you want to move. You will find the columns for the city and state with the zip code of both places and you have to write that.
Contact information: Fill this column with your name, contact address, phone numbers for example evening phone number and day time phone number.

Account number and e mail address would also be mentioned.
List or inventory: In this list you can find the names of all the stuff you can have in your home, only you need to tick on the name of the item so you don’t have to remember everything. You will find the names of house hold items to office equipment in separate sections for example electric appliances with their sizes and numbers, bedroom furniture, kitchen items, living room furniture with different accessories, nursery items, office equipment and outdoor/porch items.
You have to fill the form to get free estimate. Just mention all the things you have or want to move, you can get the free estimate from the moving company before deciding to hire them. Once you fill out all the details you will then receive an estimated price quote from the company which will help you plan your budget for moving to your new destination or for inland shipping of your merchandise.

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Bob Evans Farms, Inc. Acknowledges Receipt Of Letter From Investor

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Bob Evans Farms, Inc. Acknowledges Receipt Of Letter From Investor
Any proposed sale and leaseback of the Company's real estate should be considered in the context of the Company's available financing strategies, and would: Significantly reduce the … Either of the Sandell-suggested transactions carries the risk of …
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Christian Mitchell: Why we must all mind the gap!
Six of my district council colleagues; Peter Burgess, Laurence Deakins, Liz Kitchen, Josh Murphy, Simon Torn; and county councillor Peter Catchpole; and myself wrote a letter to this paper on 18 July 2013 a week before the draft Preferred Strategy was …
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Aw Shucks, Says Malwarebytes Corporation Upon Receiving New Entrepreneurial Award from Frost & Sullivan

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(PRWEB) March 12, 2013

Malwarebytes announced today that it has earned Frost & Sullivan’s 2012 North American Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award in Endpoint Security. In presenting the award, Frost & Sullivan attributed Malwarebytes’ success “to a deeper understanding of the changing and evolving threat landscape.”

The annual award is presented to the endpoint security company that collects the highest average score from Frost & Sullivan security analysts in several key categories. The competing companies are scored in five categories: Growth Strategy Excellence, Growth Implementation Excellence, Degree of Innovation with Products and Technologies, Leadership in Customer Value, and Speed of Response to Market Needs.

“The Malwarebytes endpoint security product is designed to fight zero-hour and polymorphic software based on behavioral malware characteristics rather than relying exclusively on a signature created as the antidote,” said Frost & Sullivan Stratecast VP of Research Michael Suby. “Malwarebytes’ research and development team leverages a crowd-sourced base of community experts and product intelligence that supplement and contribute to its global knowledgebase of the latest emerging threats.

“Notably, Malwarebytes products are designed to work in tandem with products sourced from other endpoint security vendors to offer a layered security approach to block advanced threats that traditional antivirus scanners may fail to detect,” said Suby.

The company recently crossed the 200 million download mark globally. Corporate revenues are set to rise again in 2013 due to the upcoming launch of several new Malwarebytes anti-malware tools and product upgrades.

“Speaking on behalf of the entire Malwarebytes team, we’re thrilled to be honored with this award,” said Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski. “Everyone, especially the researchers and developers who joined us from the malware hunting community, had a hand in this. The fight to make the Internet a safer place always has been, and always will be, an incredibly collaborative effort. It involves dedicated folks all over the world submitting malware samples, identifying malicious websites, and writing anti-malware code.

“And,” he said, “only a concerted group effort could win an award with a title that long.”

About Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes provides software designed to protect consumers and businesses against malicious threats that consistently escape detection by other antivirus solutions. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro, the company’s flagship product, employs a highly advanced behavior-based detection engine that has removed over five billion malicious threats from computers worldwide. Founded in 2008, the self-funded company is headquartered in California, operates offices in Europe, and employs a global team of researchers and experts. For more information, please visit us at http://www.malwarebytes.org.

About Frost & Sullivan

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company’s Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO’s Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages over 45 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses, and the investment community from 40 offices on six continents. http://www.frost.com