photo credit: Conor Lawless Financial analysis company Sageworks has released a study that ranks industries by their net profit margin in 2008. The study only tracked privately held companies. The top ten most profitable industries in 2008 were: Offices of dentists Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services Legal services Offices of other health practitioners […]
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I thought it was dead, but it appears that Google’s telephone answering web application Grand Central is alive after all. It’s taken a year to merge the GrandCentral servers with Google’s, but they’re nearly done, and a 2.0 version is imminent says New York Times tech columnist David Pouge.
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The Wall Street Journal: Even in a recession, people will still want to be entertained. The Great Depression saw resilience and even growth in movie ticket sales as one of the cheapest ways for people to entertain themselves. As this economy tightens through 2009, we’ll find growing numbers of “time rich-cash poor” consumers seeking today’s
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Kansas City infoZine: Arbonne International, LLC today announced the voluntary recall of certain lots of its Arbonne Figure 8 Peanut Butter Chews because the products contain peanut butter that was manufactured by Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), which is the focus of an ongoing Salmonella investigation. This recall is part of the nationwide recall initiated
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TradingMarkets.com: LifeVantage Corporation, the makers of Protandim, the only product clinically proven to slow the progressive rate of aging, announced recently that network marketing executive Randal Wojta has been named as the Master Distributor for LifeVantage’s launch into the network marketing arena. David Brown, LifeVantage President and CEO said, ‘Mr. Wojta was selected as the
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IBN Live: With network selling companies such as Amway, Tupperware and Oriflame, to name a few, making their foray into the Indian market, you can look at supplementing your income from the comfort of your own house. What is MLM? Network selling or multi-level marketing (MLM) operates on the principle of supplying goods produced by
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Springwise: Although hospital superbugs may be infamous, we haven’t yet seen a branded, integral B2C approach to their prevention. Sold and marketed to consumers instead of to health institutions, PatientPak is a collection of antimicrobial and other hygiene items for those planning a hospital visit. Its aim: to kill 99.99% of bugs, including nasties such
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An eighth grade Canadian boy has invented a plastic decal that will stop birds from flying into windows. The decal is painted ultraviolet, a color that is invisible to humans, but very visible to birds. It’s like putting a big stop sign in the middle of the window, ” Charlie Sobcov on CBC Radio. 500
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Telegraph.co.uk: Every day 38-year-old Laytoyia Housley logs into UpDown’s site from her home in Florida and spends two hours trading stocks and shares. “Act fast, invest smart and do not get emotional,” she preaches, giving her best impression of a ruthless Wall Street whiz kid. This year, she’s made close to a 1,500 per cent
photo credit: ericmcgregor A London gym called Gymbox has come up with a new gimmick to differentiate itself from the competition: instead of lifting weights, you can lift humans. Wearing Lycra catsuits which label their weight, they sit on specially adapted machines and shout words of encouragement. The “dumbbells” include two dwarfs — 32-year-old Arti
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