Archive for June 6th, 2007
Nancy O'Dell Receives Virtual Baby Swags Shower
PRWeb: Public Relations firm Baby Swags recently threw pregnant celebrity Nancy O’Dell their first Virtual Baby Shower by sending O’Dell a gift basket full of work at home mom products. Nancy O’Dell is the co-host for NBC’s “Access Hollywood” as well as the 2007 co-host for the Miss USA Pageant and is pregnant with her [...]
Stay-At-Home Moms Can Excel In Business
ScrippsNews: For earlier generations of former career women who become mothers, the choice was stark: either stay at home or return to the workplace. But the Internet has rewritten that rule, especially as it comes to running a small business. Now we are seeing a new phenomenon called the “mompreneur.” These are women who use [...]
From Mom To Mogul, All With Good Skin
CNN Money: Tracy Brennan wasn’t looking for a multimillion-dollar business idea; she just wanted to modify her skin-care routine when pregnancy wreaked havoc on her face. But she discovered that, short of a dermatologist’s office or department store, there was no one location offering a mix of products and treatments for her skin type and [...]
Predictions For eBay Live 2007
Each year during eBay’s annual conference, the company likes to make splashy announcements (health care insurance for PowerSellers, ProStores web-hosting, and last year – blogs and wikis). This year, eBay CEO Meg Whitman will deliver the keynote on June 14th; joining her will be Bill Cobb (eBay North America) and Rajiv Dutta (PayPal). (Does anyone [...]
eBay Bidding For Radio Airtime Ads
EBay Inc. will begin taking bids for radio advertisements starting Wednesday as the online auction leader tries to expand into offline ads. EBay will partner with privately held Bid4Spots Inc., an Encino-based startup hosting weekly online auctions of radio airtime since January 2005. The agreement means advertisers can bid on eBay for commercial time on [...]
Blip.tv, which produces and distributes original programming online, has announced the closing of its series B financing. In addition, the digital video upstart has announced their first venture capital investors. Most notably, Ambient Sound Investments, the venture capital fund run by the founders of Skype, an online peer-to-peer telephony network, has signed on as investors [...]
Skype Seeking Help From FCC to Unlock Cell Phones
Are cellphone companies using their sway over handset makers to unfairly limit consumers’ choices? Skype, a pioneer in PC-to-PC calling, thinks so, and it wants the Federal Communications Commission to do something about it. In a blistering filing with the FCC, Skype basically accused Verizon Wireless and other big carriers of holding their customers hostage [...]
Entrepreneur: Many like to credit Johnny Depp’s inimitable turn as Captain Jack Sparrow for bringing back pirates. We, however, would like to point some fingers at Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summers, John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur and Dave Barry — yes, that Dave Barry. See, Summers and Baur like to talk like pirates, and in 1995, they [...]
Magazine About Money Makes Money
Entrepreneur: Bryan Sims considers himself a pretty lucky guy–not because he’s young and successful, but because he’s doing what he always wanted to do. This 23-year-old is the CEO and founder of Brass Media, which produces Brass magazine, a quarterly publication with more than 350,000 readers. Describing it as a lifestyle money magazine written by [...]
Wanna Be An Entrepreneur? Go To Montana
John Cook’s Venture Blog: The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, which was released today, shows that the level of entrepreneurial activity in the country has stayed relatively stable over the past decade with about 465,000 people creating new businesses on average each month. Interestingly, the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue area ranked in the middle of the pack of [...]
Entrepreneur: When Tupperware parties first became popular decades ago, not many people could have predicted the longevity of the plastic containers–or the company itself, for that matter. Nor could anyone have predicted the groundswell of interest in today’s breed of home parties, in virtually every industry imaginable–from power tools to beauty products to apparel. Home [...]
Google Becomes World’s Most Valuable Brand
Research Watch: We are all familiar with brands and we have all developed long term relationships with these consistent names. Every day we all make choices about which brands we interact with and each of us has our own relationship with the brands we choose – creating a consistent and ultimately worthwhile relationship with the [...]
