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Intuit Study: Small Businesses Will Innovate

Small Businesses Will Innovate Today to Succeed Tomorrow

Future of Small Business Research Reveals Six Characteristics That Help Entrepreneurs Survive and Thrive

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–For today’s small business to succeed tomorrow, the ability to innovate will be more than something nice to have, it will be a necessity.

New research shows that innovation will be essential for small businesses over the next decade as they try to thrive and survive by seizing new opportunities, improving their competitive position and providing more value to their customers.


The findings appear in the latest Intuit Future of Small Business Report, sponsored by Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:INTU) and written by Emergent Research. It focuses on the key factors that drive, enable, amplify and shape the outcome of innovation, and the six characteristics of innovative companies. The report is part of the ongoing Intuit Future of Small Business series, conducted by Emergent Research and the Institute for the Future.
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Macgames.org Releases A New Tennis Game for Macintosh, Smashing Tennis

Autun, France – March 11, 2009 – Independent game developers at the mac games and reviews website, Macgames.org, have announced the release of their first game, a new tennis game for Macintosh, Smashing Tennis.

Smashing Tennis was created with a specific focus: to make a game challenging and entertaining for avid, arcade tennis players. Realistic physics were incorporated into the game as best as could be done in a 2D environment, therefore, the game play is accentuated by real ball flight trajectory, as well as sound effects, which are recordings of actual tennis matches. The court surfaces also come into play and greatly vary the feel and style of game play. Each court surface offered in Smashing Tennis: grass, clay, hard decoturf courts, behaves as on real life tennis court surfaces, such that grass courts will have a fast performance with balls skidding and bouncing low favoring serve and volley players; hard court surface play involves a medium speed tennis, which gives slight advantage to fast and hard hitting players; and, clay courts, having the slowest speed but high bounce, reduce any sort of power game but will work well with drop shots.
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