Archive for March 6th, 2007
Springwise: Flying with infants brings an end to travelling light, as a baby’s essentials quickly add up to excess baggage. Tinytotsaway.com aims to ease the strain, by letting parents order all of their child’s necessities online and have them delivered to their destination. The British company not only helps with the extra baggage issue, but [...]
KOMO-TV: It sounds like a super hero, but it’s the “Roboflagger.” Drive up to a construction zone, and you may worry about delays – but flaggers worry about you. “My fear is the guy who’s driving down the road, eating a hamburger and reading the newspaper and not paying any attention,” said Denise Smith, a [...]
Whiz Kids: America’s Next Business Tycoons
Inc.: 17-year-old Jake Fisher and Weina Scott, who met via an online message board, started their business in June 2005. Switchpod is a podcasting hosting service that provides both free and premium accounts. You can create a podcast with their technology, upload it to Switchpod and be podcasting to the world in a matter of [...]
eCommerce-Guide: One day in the early 1990′s Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla. made herself a grilled- cheese sandwich. Then she gazed down at the brown skillet marks on the bread: “I saw a face looking up at me; it was the Virgin Mary staring back. I was in total shock,” she later told reporters. Diana [...]
Growth Spurt in the Small-Business Economy
Entrepreneur: 2007 is off to a good start for the small-business economy, according to the February 2007 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard, an economic indicator that tracks the health of U.S. small businesses. In February, the SurePayroll Hiring Index increased 39 points, ending the month at 10,511 and marking the third consecutive month of hiring growth. [...]
