While developing his vacuum, Sir James Dyson went through 5,126 failed prototypes and his savings over 15 years. But the 5,127th prototype worked and now the Dyson brand is the best-selling vacuum cleaner in the United States if not the world. You can read more on Sir James Dyson at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Dyson
Soichiro Honda was passed over for an engineering job at Toyota and left unemployed. But then he began making motorcycles, started a business (founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd) and became a billionaire. You can read more on Soichiro Honda at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soichiro_Honda
Harland David “Colonel” Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) the American restaurateur who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food chain couldn’t sell his chicken to anyone. More than 1,000 restaurants rejected him. Today there are KFC restaurants bearing his image all over the world. You can read more on Harland David Continue reading »
Thomas Edison’s teachers told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Edison also Continue reading »
Albert Einstein didn’t speak until age four and didn’t read until age seven. His teachers labeled him “slow” and “mentally handicapped.” He later won the Nobel prize in physics (1921) and is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. You can read more on Albert Einstein at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
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Tony Robinson Asks If Bankers are Human live on BBC Question Time Actor and broadcaster, Tony Robinson better know as Baldrick in the TV program Blackadder, has said that he no longer has any respect for British bankers and the British banking system in reply to the question, “is there any integrity left in British Continue reading »
Scientists offer £1,000 prize for answer to the question: Why does hot water freeze faster than cold? The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering a £1,000 prize to anyone who can crack this age-old ice puzzle.Here we are two thousand years after Aristotle and we are still looking for answer to the question: Why does Continue reading »
Is Your RSS Feed Ripping Off Your WordPress Blog? (Video+PDF) According to Pawan Agrawal, the founder & CEO of MaxBlogPress there’s a dark side of RSS that you’re not even aware of. This dark side can seriously reduce the earnings potential of your WordPress blog. Common RSS Feed Problems Common RSS Feed problems for most Continue reading »
Lawsuit brought by five Facebook users in California who charge that they were misled by the company’s terms of use ‘Sponsored stories’ seen by users when a friend ‘likes’ a product or place Seen as more turmoil for Facebook, which has struggled since its botched initial public offering last month Facebook has agreed to Continue reading »
Be safe, not sorry — store your files in the cloud! Try it for free with JustHost. Our whole lives are stored on our hard drives … so what happens when it crashes or gets stolen? When a hard drive fails, and the data isn’t backed up, it’s gone for good. And it’s not a Continue reading »
WooThemes released a security patch on the 28th April 2012 for their theme framework. The vulnerability is related to a preview function which allows visitors to run and see the output of any shortcodes used by your installed WooThemes theme. This vulnerability is now widely known (prior to the theme developers being notified), which means, Continue reading »
Online Advertising Back On Track US Internet ad revenues reached an all-time high of $26.0 billion in 2010, up 14.9% from $22.7 billion in 2009, fuelled by growth in display-related formats, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Interactive revenues for the second half of 2010 reached a record $13.9 billion, up 18.3% from $11.8 Continue reading »
In the first three months of this year (2011), loan applications from smaller firms showed a marked decline. The Bank of England’s latest credit conditions survey found that demand for loans among smaller enterprises dropped in the first quarter largely as a result of seasonal and weather-related factors along with worries over the impact of Continue reading »
As from 6 April 2011, there are changes to the filing fees charged by Companies House. The changes affect both electronic and paper submissions. As you can see from the table some of the fee changes are considerable, with 100% increases in some cases.
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