Archive for December 7th, 2006
How To Handle Business Etiquette Meals
The following is a guest post by Matthew Peschong of the Caffeine Marketing blog. Hosting a business dining event for your employees and associates means that you are taking on a very large amount of responsibility. As the leader and organizer of such an event you much user your power and make the dining experience [...]
Google Extends Free Checkout Payments
AuctionBytes.com: Google announced it is extending its promotion for Google Checkout for another year. The checkout service, used by online merchants to process payments from customers, launched in June with lower fees than PayPal’s payment service, as well as an incentive for those merchants using Google AdWords. In early November, Google announced that from November [...]
Protect Your Invention When Pitching It
Forbes.com: If you’ve developed a potentially marketable invention, you are faced with a dilemma. To make money from the invention, you must generally license the rights to it to another business, often a manufacturer or distributor. But in pitching the invention to potential licensees, you run the risk of disclosing so much information that the [...]
eBay Sues Big Day Out Over New Ticket Policy
INTERNET auction site eBay is reportedly suing the organisers of the Big Day Out concert tour over their new anti-scalping ticket policy. eBay claims the promoters are breaching trades practices legislation by tightening their ticketing conditions, Melbourne’s Herald Sun reports. The changes mean Big Day Out tickets brought from eBay will not be valid Australian [...]
According to reports, Google will be eliminating fees from its online payment, Checkout. To compete better with PayPal, Google is letting merchants use its Checkout system to process payments without taking a hit on transactions. Traditionally, merchants who use PayPal take a 2.9-percent hit on the total value of a transaction plus another 30-cents for [...]
eBay Hires Lee Away From Yahoo for China
EBay, the world’s biggest online auctioneer, announced Tuesday that it had hired Daniel Lee from a rival to head its development center in Shanghai, as the company seeks to increase share in China, the world’s second-biggest Internet market. Lee, who was most recently chief technology officer for Yahoo’s North Asia unit, will lead the center’s [...]
CNET News.com: Hoping to capitalize on the booming popularity of Internet video and online advertising, TurnHere, an Emeryville, Calif.-based start-up, has come up with a formula for producing professional video ads to slot into Web sites. The company will film, edit and package a minidocumentary 45 seconds to 2-plus minutes in length. The minimum price [...]
Inventor Escapes From Alcatraz
hometownlife.com: Magician Brian McDermott grew bored of his usual tricks and was in search of new ideas. His quest led him down a path of familiar tricks he had already used. He began pondering the idea of his own invention. Through a long trial and error process of sketching shapes and patterns, he formed a [...]
Dutch Inventor Creates Right Mouse Advertising
Free Press Releases: Dutch entrepreneur,Johan Struijk, has came up with a revolutionary idea. The use of the right mouse button for advertising purposes. The idea is simple. When a surfer enters a web site that has RightMouse integrated, the surfer will be redirected to a RightMouse advertiser when he or she uses the right mouse [...]
