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It could be months before the SEC formally regulates crowd funding, one of the JOBS Act’s most exciting provisions, but some enterprising startups aren’t waiting for a green light from Washington to tap the crowd for capital.   While JOBS has won widespread support with its streamlined IPO provisions, some of the law’s key benefits, including the ability to crowd fund as much as $1 million in seed capital, still have to go through the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lengthy rule-making process.  

Instagram snaps of the delicious meal you're about to eat are such a cliché, they played a starring role in CollegeHumor's hilarious takedown of the Facebook-owned photo-sharing site.

VANCOUVER — Mother Nature appears to be slowly turning on the taps again at some B.C. hot springs damaged by an earthquake last fall. Parks Canada announced Thursday that hot-water seeps near two pools in Gwaii Haanas National Park have been observed below the tide line by scientists, and thermal activity has been detected — but not to previous levels — in all other areas where it once occurred. The park is located on southern Haida Gwaii’s Moresby Island and other islands off B.C.’s northwest coast.

The New York Times has long been the most-visited newspaper site on the Web, but Britain's Daily Mail is making a run at its crown.According to figures from tracking firm comScore, the Mail Online surpassed the Times in unique visitors in December -- 45.35 million for the Mail to 44.8 million for the Times.Not so fast, said the Times.It noted that the Mail figure includes visitors not only to the newspaper site -- dailymail.co.uk -- but also to those of an affiliated personal finance site -- thisismoney.co.uk.

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Fraud in online advertising is a huge business, we noted recently.

Shoppers have an unprecedented number of options today thanks to the advent of e-commerce.  But John Caplan, the CEO of OpenSky, noticed that a key part of shopping was missing from the web. 

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