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Ashley Qualls doesn't sound like a typical high school student. Maybe that's because the 17-year-old is the CEO of a million-dollar business. Ashley is the head of whateverlife.com, a website she started when she was just 14 — with eight dollars borrowed from her mother. Now, just three years later, the website grosses more than $1 million a year, providing Ashley and her working class family a sense of security they had never really known. It all started with capitalism 101, the law of supply and demand. Ashley became interested in graphic design just as the online social networking craze...

For the past 10 years, adults ages 55 to 64 have been the group most likely to start a new business, according to a study released in May by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which promotes entrepreneurship. And now that baby boomers are reaching retirement age, the trend is only going to grow. People are living longer and are more likely to pursue dream businesses rather than tend to their gardens when their workaday lives are done. About 80 percent of boomers claim they want to work in retirement, according to Sara Rix, senior policy adviser at the Public Policy...

The Register » Software » Developer » Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/05/_microsoft_patents/Microsoft releasing IP to start-ups By Gavin Clarke (gavin.clarke at theregister.co.uk) Published Thursday 5th May 2005 07:07 GMT Microsoft is releasing 20 early-stage technologies to start-ups on terms that would allow its software to be picked-up by the open source community.Microsoft is releasing the technologies to small businesses under the IP Ventures Program, which enables ISVs to modify code for use in commercial products. David Kaefer, Microsoft's director of intellectual property (IP) licensing, told The Register: "Licensees can take the code base and do with it what they will... some of this...

A file calling itself WINAMPLAYER keeps showing up and getting into my startup. Anyone know where it comes from or what it does? I have enough antivirus, antispyware stuff that it should be blocked, but it ain't working.