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They can then repeat the process for another market.

CSO - Intellectual property protection is a complex duty with aspects that may fall under the purview of Legal, IT, Human Resources and other departments. Ultimately a Chief Security Officer or Risk Committee often serves to unify intellectual property protection efforts. Updated 6/4/2012 Here are answers to common IP questions.
Americans' reading habits over time
The population of e-book readers is growing. In the past year, the number of those who read an e-book in the past year increased from 16% of all Americans ages 16 and older in December 2011 to 23% in November 2012.

Despite the splash caused by self- publishing superstars such as Amanda Hocking and EL James, the average amount earned by DIY authors last year was just $10,000 (£6,375) - and half made less than $500.

(CNN) -- It's been called a " cure for rejection-letter fatigue." Amazon on Thursday released new details about the success of its program for authors who want to self-publish on its Kindle e-reader devices.

Highlights of the Pew Internet Project's research related to social networking. (Note: This page will be updated whenever new data is available.) As of September 2013, 73% of online adults use social networking sites.

Jessica Mah is the founder and CEO of InDinero, a San Francisco startup that makes Web-based financial tracking tools for small businesses. A version of this article first appeared in her blog, Jessica Mah Meets World. Over the past few weeks, I've noticed that companies known for raising absurd amounts of money are often founded by entrepreneurs who have succeeded multiple times before.

Take our 14 item quiz and we'll tell you how 'Millennial' you are, on a scale from 0 to 100, by comparing your answers with those of resp...
Olive Oil

How do I know if my shipment needs an export license? What can I do to reduce supplier quality and delivery risks? I got a penalty notice from customs. Now what? There's no shortage of questions in the world of supply chain management and international trade compliance.
Wikipedia

Editors' Note appended . On March 1st, Wikipedia, the online interactive encyclopedia, hit the million-articles mark, with an entry on Jordanhill, a railway station in suburban Glasgow. Its author, Ewan MacDonald, posted a single sentence about the station at 11 P.M., local time; over the next twenty-four hours, the entry was edited more than four hundred times, by dozens of people.

Several months ago, I discovered that I was being "considered for deletion." Or rather, the entry on me in the Internet behemoth that is Wikipedia was. For those of you who are (as uncharitableWikipedians sometimes say) "clueless newbies," Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. But it is like no encyclopedia Diderot could have imagined.

Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. That statement is both ordinary and astonishing: it's a simple reflection of its enormous readership; and yet, by any traditional view about how the world works, Wikipedia shouldn't even exist, much less have succeeded so dramatically in the space of a single decade.

Imagine if, in August 2001, the U.S. intelligence agencies had dumped all of their information into one secure, online resource where it was searchable and accessible to anyone who had the proper clearance. Who knows if the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 could have been averted?

