Archive for November 16th, 2006
MarketWatch: Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman has died at the age of 94, according to media reports Thursday. Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the past century, died last night, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site, citing an official at the Cato Institute in Washington. Friedman was a professor at [...]
Once Again eBay Stops PS3 Listings
Only four days after the console went on sale in Japan, eBay.co.uk has decided to prohibit users from selling PS3s in the UK. Import PS3 consoles have been fetching upwards of £1000 on eBay, and with the PS3 not expected to launch in the UK until March, at the earliest, the high price of import [...]
eBay Goes Down But Is Not Accountable
In a world where brick and mortar auctions are often accompanied by online catalogs and “live” Internet bidding, it would appear few considered what might happen if that technology failed. Yet that is exactly what happened on Saturday, October 21st when one or more servers at eBay which support the live auction component of the [...]
Sony PlayStation 3 Sales Kicked off in Japan
European and North American buyers eager to get their hands on Sony’s PlayStation 3 are turning to EBay after the first consoles started selling in Japan on 11 November. Sony kicked off the sales of its new games console on Saturday, offering 100,000 units for sale in Japan. The 20GB and 60GB models retail for [...]
PayPal Founders Get Funding for New Start-up
Slide Inc., a start-up that allows Web users to publish online slideshows of photos and other digital media, said on Tuesday it had received additional funding from two top Silicon Valley venture firms. Slide was started by Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal, the world’s most popular online payment service which was sold to online auctioneer [...]
LATimes.com: For last year’s Los Angeles premiere of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Warner Bros. executives wanted to infuse the air outside the theater and inside the lobby with the rich fragrance of Wonka bars. They turned to Neal Harris for the aromatic task. Harris operates two small Los Angeles-based companies ScentEvents devoted to the [...]
Fraudsters Siphon $3 Billion from eBiz
ECommerce-Guide.com: Results of the eighth annual CyberSource Corporation survey of e-commerce fraud, released yesterday, shows that U.S. merchants will lose as much as $3 billion in revenue to fraud in 2006, up from $2.8 billion the year before. The good news: As a percent of revenue, fraud losses will be slightly less this year — [...]
Boomers A Big Market For Small Companies
Rhonda Abrams at Gannett News Service: What do President Bush, Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, Cher, Patty Duke and Jimmy Buffett have in common? Each turned 60 this year. They’re not alone. In 2006, the leading edge of the baby boomer generation reached that milestone, and boomers represent a whopping 26 percent of the population, according [...]
Looking for a Business Partner?
Business Opportunities Blog: How many businesses or ventures were started because two people met in a hotel lobby, were at school together or because of a chance introduction to a friend of a friend? At Dynamis, we wanted to create a site, Ubops, that put people together without relying on luck. Don’t rely on coincidence [...]
Cool at School: Virtual High School
LasVegasNow.com: Technology has certainly changed the world we live in – at work, at home, and at school. In fact, some students here in the valley can now attend high school without ever leaving home. It’s called Virtual High School and offers 115 courses, including Chinese. Students do all of their work online, but take [...]
Small Business Failure – Wal-Mart… or a lack of planning?
Are the chain stores really shutting out the smaller businesses? Sam’s Club and many of the other large discount stores started out as small mom and pop businesses. But with proper planning, the right niche, and great timing, they have excelled into the status of “chain store,� leaving behind other mom’s and pop’s. Since 1986, [...]
Five Deadly Sins in Product Packaging
JoAnn Hines on AmericanInventorSpot.com: Remember, you can’t have a product without a package. If you don’t have a package, your product will never get to the retailer’s shelf. Here are the five deadly sins in packaging your invention. They are poison and could keep your product from getting to the retailer’s shelf. Waiting Too Late [...]
Microsoft Launches Nationwide Contest for Most Innovative Small-Business Idea
Prize package includes $100,000 working capital, storefront for year, software tools. NEW YORK – Nov. 15, 2006 – Microsoft Corp. today announced the Ultimate Challenge, a nationwide search for the most creative small-business idea in the country. The contest, which is live at www.ideawins.com, has been designed to spur the imagination and spirit of entrepreneurism [...]
Business Week: The success of the entrepreneurs behind Digg, YouTube, and Facebook is undoubtedly inspiring a growing group of young, energetic, and self-reliant hopefuls. Although many of them were in middle school during the dot-com boom, Generation Y’ers are seeing upstart companies worth big bucks for the second time in their lives and are increasingly [...]
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