Archive for January 30th, 2007
Entrepreneur Takes A Shine To Moonshine
The Wichita Eagle: Before he moved to North Carolina in the mid-`90s, Joseph Michalek’s New York buddies kidded him about coming to the land of moonshine and Mayberry. Within months of arriving in Winston-Salem, he began to notice a glass jar quietly being passed around at bluegrass festivals and race tracks. “I’d never seen nor [...]
Pension Law Can Benefit Small Businesses
Associated Press: Now is the time for small business owners to bone up on a new law that makes big changes in employee retirement plans. The Pension Protection Act of 2006, passed in August, rewrote many of the rules on pensions in an effort to aid owners and employees alike. While some changes won’t kick [...]
Found in Translation: Home Biz
BusinessWeek: According to 2000 U.S. Census data, nearly 47 million people who live in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home. That’s a huge group of potential customers, and myriad corporations seek to capture their consumer spending power, notes Nataly Kelly, a former court interpreter and the author of a book, Telephone [...]
ABC News Online: People who upload their own films to the video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the advertising revenue. YouTube founder Chad Hurley has confirmed that his team is working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity”. He said the system would be rolled out in a couple of months [...]
Firm Finds Niche Supporting Internet Radio Stations
Scripps Howard News Service: Liquid Compass “powers” more than 500 Internet radio stations in the United States, buying the bandwidth and operating and monitoring the streaming audio. It charges around $250 a month per station for providing that service. The 13-employee company also develops Web sites and customized Internet audio/media players, and provides software that [...]
