Archive for December 30th, 2008
One Mom Uses Her Love For Crafts To Launch A Business
Many individuals have been able to earn, at minimum, a part-time income by selling their handmade creations through websites like Etsy. It has given both men and women the opportunity to take something they enjoy and turn it into a small business. It also gives some parents the opportunity to stay home with their children. [...]
Mom's Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This
Abbotsford Mission Times: Going from a conventional stay-at-home-mother who loved to bake to a successful business owner, Tracy Dueck is now a firm believer that ‘if you build it, they will come.’ Offering scrumptious cupcakes and other sweet and savoury delicacies, Dueck’s Tracycakes Bakery cupcake concept café is the only one of its kind in [...]
Mother And Son Team Up To Fill A Local Need
Ledger-Enquirer.com: Think it’s too much of a hassle to drive to the Kia plant for work? Naomi Cason and Ronald Henry have a solution. About a year ago, the mother-son pair established Bi-City Transportation, a shuttle service that provides round-trip services for Kia workers from Columbus to West Point. Henry said the business offers an [...]
Grad Scores With Invention Of Purring Toy
Athens Banner-Herald: When former Jefferson resident Vivian Hoard was working “24/7″ as a tax litigator for a large Atlanta law firm, she often came home at night to a sleeping family, but she always could rely on the family cat, Ludwig, to sit in her lap and purr contentedly. “When I’d come home at all [...]
Top Technology Breakthroughs Of 2008
Wired: The economy may be tanking, but innovation is alive and well. When it came to products, incremental improvements were the name of the game this year. Phones got faster (iPhone 3G anyone?), notebooks turned into netbooks and pocket cameras went from recording standard-definition video to HD. Here’s our countdown of what rocked our world [...]
Has eBay Hit The Wall Or Is Economy To Blame?
Search Engine Watch: Motley Fool has reported that holiday spending at eBay this year is lower than last year, despite the fact that one would expect them to be a good source of lower priced gifts in these hard economic times. Meanwhile Amazon has reported higher sales numbers over last year. Are people forgoing secondhand [...]
Inventor Creates Instantly Adjustable Eyeglasses
Gizmodo: British Inventor Josh Silver has developer a pair of eyeglasses that are instantly adjustable. They’ve got a liquid-filled sac in the middle—add more fluid to make the glasses stronger, deflate to weaken them. The no-optician-required glasses rely on the principle that the fatter a lens is, the more powerful it comes, so by pumping [...]
