Archive for May 5th, 2008
One Stop Pregnancy To Birth Shopping
Online stores are a popular way for moms to work from home. When that mom has a passion for all things baby, owning one of those shops is even easier. In this case it was Bethany of The Polkadot Platypus that obsessed over these great items before she had her first child. When she had [...]
Net Expands Job Market For Stay-At-Home Moms
Press-Telegram: After Lisa Otto’s second child was born, she decided she had to cut back her hours at the Barron, Wis., hospital where she works as an emergency technician. Otto’s first son, then 4, had been diagnosed with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, and her husband, a carpenter, worked long and unpredictable hours. Though her [...]
The Washington Street Journal: They’ve been coined mommy SWAT teams, which stands for “Smart Women with Available Time.” According to Sue Shellenbarger’s Work Family column in Wednesday’s Journal, these are groups of talented at-home moms who don’t want full-time work, but want to keep their skills sharp and dive into the occasional professional project. According [...]
How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory
BusinessWeek: Leading up to Google’s first-quarter earnings report on Apr. 17, investors couldn’t have been more bearish. They had knocked the stock down 35% since the start of the year, concerned that a weak economy would finally hurt the search giant’s advertising business. But Google defied skeptics—and the economic downturn—with a surprisingly strong showing that [...]
Sick Of Gas Prices, Shoppers Head Online
eMarketer: One-third (33%) of online US adults say they are more likely to shop online because of high gasoline prices, according to a recent iCongo-sponsored survey conducted by Harris Interactive. More than four out of 10 respondents also said they planned to make retail purchases with their rebate, if they got one. About the same [...]
Big Bucks From Tiny Computing Startups
InformationWeek: Call them lifestyle businesses. Peopleless enterprises. Solo entrepreneurs. They are becoming increasingly common as the Internet matures, software as a service is more reliable, outsourcing becomes more commonplace, and customers and user communities begin to shoulder more of the work of keeping operations going. Such companies get big results by thinking small — from [...]
Amazon.com Sues Over New Online Sales Tax
CNET News: Amazon.com is hitting back at New York over a new law requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes from customers residing in that state.’ In a complaint filed on April 25, Amazon asked the New York State Supreme Court to declare the recently passed law “invalid, illegal, and unconstitutional.” New York has long [...]
Gemini Isn't Just A Star Sign Anymore
What is the Gemini sign but a symbol for twins? In that case, Gemini Greetings is on the right track. A unique online card store, they offer a variety of cards for those with twins, triplets and more. One thing that many cards found in stores seem to miss is that niche in family. They’ve [...]
Gemini Isn’t Just A Star Sign Anymore
What is the Gemini sign but a symbol for twins? In that case, Gemini Greetings is on the right track. A unique online card store, they offer a variety of cards for those with twins, triplets and more. One thing that many cards found in stores seem to miss is that niche in family. They’ve [...]
10 Internet Bizs You Can Start With $100
Kineda.com: Do you feel like you missed the first dotcom wave because you didn’t have enough money at the time start an online business? Don’t worry, it’s not too late. You don’t have to be rich to be an entrepreneur in this new age of free online tools and Web 2.0 applications that get the [...]
