By: Co-Editor: RB:

Banks spend billions of dollars of advertising every year. Banks dominate in high profile marketing areas such as stadium naming rights. They advertise various features in a manner that is completely meaningless. And if you go to the bank or visit a website, you are liable to be more confused. So how do you synthesize all this information and make an intelligent choice?

Try FindABetterBank.com.

Robert Rubin, founder of the New York City-based financial services company, headed up a team of people and created this highly specialized online search tool. The site instantly allows people to compare financial institutions based on location, a variety of personal preferences and their specific banking behavior. FindABetterBank estimates the fees for the consumer can expect with each account.

The behind the scenes database presently contains up-to-date checking, savings and money market account information for over 85 major community banks and credit unions, in 11,000 US cities and towns, and over 53,000 branch locations. This includes maintaining data about over 30 different types of fees financial institutions charge their checking account customers.
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By: Co-Editor, Bobby B:

Since this is not technically a tech site, I will take a second to give you a primer on what a Cloud operating system is.

The term “cloud” is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents. Typical cloud computing providers deliver common business applications online which are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers.

Attribo.com is a Bangolore based startup beta that is focused on what they call “Cloud Management, Provisioning, Monitoring & Reporting Solutions”. They are trying to solve the end user adaptability issues related to multiple cloud vendors and cloud based infrastructure components. They are attempting to make the cloud experience more end user friendly and easy to manage with feature rich approach.

Attribo is built with a unique integration pattern, which brings on the multiple cloud vendor API features within 24 hours of their release and made available to users via the Attribo 3C management console.
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By: The Editor

One of the many challenges entrepreneurs face is creating a corporate or professional image. One of the first things that any business needs is a website.

Based in Toledo, Ohio, Flooha.com is a new startup that looks to help with your website needs.

Flooha.com creates free customized websites by simply clicking to select software and add-ons. Flooha.com will automatically create, install and host your website for free.

Flooha.com aims to make the process of building your website an enjoyable and pain-free experience.

We all know how difficult and frustrating it can be for users to customize software to meet their needs. The Internet is filled with forum posts of users pleading for help, desperate for an answer to a problem they are having with their website software. Whether it is how to correctly modify a file, how to set file permissions, or some other configuration issue, users encountering the same problems over and over no matter what application they are using.

Flooha has made the process of building and installing customized website software as easy as surfing the web. You can choose an application and add-ons the same way you would shop for products online. Just point and click to add them to your project and click “Build it” button when you’re done.It doesn’t even matter if the add-ons you select all modify the same file, Flooha will do it’s best to make the changes correctly, saving you a lot of time and headaches.
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