Archive for January 15th, 2007
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Endless Gibberish.
A 20-year travel industry leader has just merged with a brand new pay plan called “perpetual leverage”. The results: Global Resorts Network. Global Resorts Network is your ticket to lavish travel at a realistic cost. You can obtain accommodations for two, four or more at one of the 4 or 5 star resorts starting at [...]
The Ann Arbor News: Patrick Wyman, who lives just outside Brighton in Hamburg Township, founded Freedom Corp. in 1990 and Freedom Dental Co. in 1999. The 48-year old Wyman is chairman of the board and CEO of the companies, which have offices in Brighton, Grand Rapids and Traverse City. His most recent effort is “Fruitrition,” [...]
Age Proves No Limit For Inventor
The Muskegon Chronicle: If it’s in your blood, you’re never too old to be an inventor. Just ask Larry Gray. He’s 77 and in the middle of a relatively successful launch of a new sailing product. Gray, with his wife, Judy, have created, produced and marketed the TideMinder through their company Go With the Flow [...]
TheHorse.com: A new Web site launched this week, UnwantedHorses.org, focuses on the unwanted horse problem in America and says it’s time for a new view about horses. “While many horse owners are devoted to their animals and keep them for life, the sad fact is that too many people only want to keep a horse [...]
Young Turn to Web Sites Without Rules
The New York Times: Popular Web sites like YouTube and MySpace have hired the equivalent of school hallway monitors to police what visitors to their sites can see and do by cracking down on piracy and depictions of nudity and violence. So where do the young thrill-seekers go? Increasingly, to new Web sites like Stickam.com, [...]
BusinessWeek.com: Lisa Pierce sets her company’s prices using a technique best described as advanced back-of-the-envelope. The founder of Alpha & Omega Delivery, a courier service in Springfield, Ill., simply adds up her costs and estimates how much she needs to charge to cover that amount. But her $500,000 company has seen the edge of bankruptcy [...]
eBay Increases Effect Bottom Line
An increase in listing fees on Internet auction site eBay has those who use it regularly concerned over what it’s going to mean for their bottom line. Users recently received an e-mail from Bill Cobb, the San Jose, Calif.-based company’s president of North American Marketplaces, outlining the new pricing structure for eBay and eBay Motors. [...]
Skype Offers PC Free Desktop Phone
Skype is setting Internet conversations free at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show with the debut of the first available Skype desktop Internet phones, bringing more flexibility in how users place Skype Internet calls at home or at work. The two new desktop Internet phones announced are IPEVO’s Solo.1 and TOPCOM’s Webt@lker 5000 with Skype. [...]
PayPal Beta’s New Virtual Payment
Online payment service PayPal is testing a virtual debit card with a constantly changing identification number. The card number changes every time it is used. The intent is to make it impossible to steal a user’s identification from a merchant, but the new card, issued by MasterCard, also makes it possible to use PayPal at [...]
This week’s Carnival of Marketing is up at rkgblog.
