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In 2012, Microsoft had decided to quit the Consumer Electronics Show and it had pulled back almost all of its products. However,  the company has had a good year in 2013 and Microsoft dominated the Consumer Electronics Show due to its impressive OEM partners. According to Nick Parker, corporate vice president, the company decided to use the 2013 Expo to promote its OEM partners and the collaboration products expected to be out in early 2014.

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Wordpress VIP, a premium wordpress service specifically intended for corporate ventures contains all wordpress features and other additional products and services. Wordpress VIP users enjoy an enhanced content management and monitoring system, security monitoring of the website and offer free training to developers.

Wordpress VIP has two hosting options to choose from; cloud hosting costs $3,750 a month for a maximum of five websites and self hosting costs $15,000 annually.

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When employed properly, upselling sales technique is likely to generate a lot of sales revenue for a small business. However, if executed poorly, it could lose such a business valuable customers. For that reason, as a small business owner, you should educate your sales teams on up selling best practices. Here are three such practices to get you started:

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Blogging platform WordPress recently released its latest update WordPress 3.8 with new features. The site named this particular refresh "Parker" in honor of bebop innovator Charlie Parker. Luckily, plenty of great new innovations and changes are available in this update. Users of WordPress will love these new features, and they come without any tough learning curves or other issues like other updates.

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Using The Instagrate To WordPress Plugin

For those who want to post Instagram images directly into their WordPress blog, you will want to install the Instagrate to WordPress plugin for your computer, which will immediately work with your computer to create a Wordpress blog post with the Instagram image file that you take.

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Why Use HTMLcode For Expanding And Collapsing Div Areas

In HTML, div areas are used to neatly organize content on a webpage. Virtually all websites utilize these tags in order to display their pages. These tags reign supreme in versatility because they can be modified to fit a web designer's needs. With that in mind, HTMLcode for expanding and collapsing these areas only makes div areas better.

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Healthcare.gov - Development Lessons Learned

Before Healthcare.gov - the Affordable Care Act's centerpiece - was launched, it was positioned to fail. To understand the complexity of the web site's failure to deliver, it is essential to understand the enormity of the project - to develop a web site where people from all over the US could access, sign up and choose a health insurance program that fit their needs. Several factors contributed to the site's failure:

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Google Shuts Down IGoogle

iGoogle, Google's all-in-one homepage site, was finally shuttered in early November. The site's shutdown is only the latest in a long line of rollouts and shutdowns from the giant search engine company, and one that seems to have been a long time coming. In fact, iGoogle's continued existence might have been puzzling to many.