Archive for July 11th, 2006
USA Today: On ABC’s American Inventor, Doug Hall is the offbeat judge who’s walked across the stage barefoot (in jeans and a Hawaiian shirt) and who threw his support behind an aspiring inventor who eventually was picked by TV viewers as the show’s top winner. Not many of his viewers, though, know much about Hall’s [...]
Skype Offers Free International Calls
AOL Money Skype(R), the global Internet communications company, today announced that U.S. and Canadian-based Skype users can make free calls to traditional landlines and mobile phones in the United Kingdom, Mexico and Japan during three ‘Skype Days of Summer’ weekends, starting Saturday, July 15th. The three countries represent some of the most frequently called [...]
Analysts Say eBays Lag Due to Slow Summer
Forbes EBay‘s recent lag in listings growth is likely a function of seasonally slow summer trends, according to Bear Stearns analyst Robert S. Peck in a report to investors Tuesday. For the first week of the third quarter, Bear Stearns estimated eBay (nasdaq: EBAY – news – people ) hosted 31.9 million items on its [...]
Sellathon Helping eBay Sellers Sort Data
AuctionBytes Sellathon launched a new section on its website this week containing a list of top eBay sellers with accompanying data that can be sorted to reveal interesting trends and information. Visitors to the Sellathon site can sort the top 10,000 eBay sellers by number of unique feedback, number of total feedback, number of mutually [...]
Older Entrepreneurs Rewrite Retirement Rules
Startup Journal: President Bush turned 60 Thursday. If he’s wondering what to do in the years after he leaves office, he might take some ideas from the finalists for the Purpose Prize, a new award that recognizes older Americans who start innovative projects aimed at helping others. Robert Chambers is one of the 15 prize [...]
Closing the Border Will Hurt Entrepreneurship
USA Today: “I think that would be a disaster,” Minniti said of a bill passed by the House of Representatives late last year that could significantly restrict the number of immigrants coming to and staying in the USA. A bill passed by the Senate in May would be less restrictive. Historically, entrepreneurship in the USA [...]
