Archive for January 28th, 2007
Felicity Huffman: Mother of Invention
Celebrity Baby Blog: Felicity Huffman, actress and mother of two daughters, talked about her new invention, the Head’s Up Pillow. She created the product because her neck hurt when she rocked her daughters in her glider. She said, “pillows would always slide down, so out of frustration and sleep-deprivation, I pulled out my sewing machine [...]
Entrepreneurial Skills Conference For Women
Inc.: Small-business owners from across the country are being invited to take part in this year’s Entrepreneurial Skills Conference for women to be held at the Microsoft Conference Center in Mountain View, Calif., on Feb. 8 – 9, organizers said. The two-day event, sponsored in part by the Small Business Administration and the Forum for [...]
Not Your Mother’s Hunting Clothes
When Sheila Zmigrosky left Dallas for her first African safari, she searched far and wide, but was appalled at the “little boy” hunting attire she had to settle for. So she promptly created The Foxy Huntress, a line of safari chic and hunting apparel, a collection of curvy chic clothes sans bulky fabrics for serious [...]
DailyPress.com: Last weekend Nia Dotson hit the streets for about three hours. “I stopped,” she says softly, “when my feet started to hurt.” She’s a small girl with small feet. But she has a big goal and an impressive track record. Nia, a 9-year-old fourth-grader at Forrest Elementary School, sold more than 1,100 boxes of [...]
2007 Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference
Office Depot is expanding the 2007 Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference from one location to six cities, including Orlando, FL; Dallas, TX; Orange County, CA; Chicago, IL; Washington, DC; and Philadelphia, PA. The conference, recognized as one of the nation’s most prominent events for women business owners and corporate female professionals, has been restructured into [...]
eBay & Google Team Up Internationally
eBay and Google are beginning to work together as part of an online advertising agreement the two entered into last August. The multi-year agreement makes Google the exclusive text-based advertising service for eBay outside the United States that also involves “click-to-call” advertising functionality. Visitors to some non-US eBay sites, including in Canada and the UK, [...]
Virtual Item Auctions In Limbo on eBay
A new report from technology news site Slashdot has revealed that online auction house Ebay intends to remove listings for all virtual items, regardless of type or game title, clamping down on third-party sales of gold and accounts from many popular MMOs. Despite the Slashdot piece further explaining continued in-game item and currency sales through [...]
