01/21/13
Marketplace for Monday, January 21, 2013
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The inauguration managed to get its own mobile app this year; Politico's Steve Freiss talks about why technology often falls behind of the times. Meanwhile, Barack Obama's Obama for America campaign group -- database, volunteers and all -- is now turning into a nonprofit. Young entrepreneurs in Hong Kong are updating the tailoring business there. The building material that made for colorful countertops decades ago -- Formica -- could be making a green comeback. And Jim Burress reports on how a bakery, a college and a streetcar line that could change the economic fortunes of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s old Atlanta neighborhood.
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Obama uses campaign machine to push agenda
President Obama will use a deep campaign database and volunteer network in a new nonprofit. Some are concerned because it can take corporate money.
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Young entrepreneurs reinvigorate Hong Kong tailoring
Hong Kong tailoring has long had a reputation for quality but many of the tailors were old and their premises old-fashioned. Now a new breed of young clothing entrepreneurs is shaking things up.
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Born on Inauguration Day: Where we go from here
People born on Inauguration Days past talk about how it's affected their lives and how American has changed in their lifetimes.
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Formica: Coming to a table near you?
That staple of '50s kitchen counter tops is being embraced by young architects as a green alternative to stone.
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Inauguration goes social with first smartphone app
Politico's senior technology reporter Steve Friess says if you look to the past, inaugurations have never really been a showcase for technology.
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Arcade veteran seeks to be pinball wizard
Video may have killed the pinball machine, but arcade veteran Jack Guarnieri aims to give it new life.
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MLK's old neighborhood seeks economic comeback
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s old Atlanta neighborhood, Sweet Auburn, was once one of the more prosperous African-American neighborhoods, but it has since fallen on hard times. Now it is trying to make a comeback.
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Library jokes it'll move Lance Armstrong books to fiction section
A part-time staff member at an Australian library set up a prank sign stating that all the non-fiction Lance Armstrong books would be moved to the fiction section.
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