Archive for November 23rd, 2009
On the sixth floor of a trendy building in San Francisco’s recently renovated Mint Plaza, four former Google employees — scratch that: five former Googlers, with today’s addition of FriendFeed’s (now Facebook’s) Ben Darnell — and a few others are working on things, reports The Los Angeles Times. Founder Jason Shellen is purposely fuzzy with [...]
Firebox.com is calling all creative geniuses, visionaries, mad scientists, tinkerers, ponderers and garden shed inventors. We’ve teamed up with Stuff, the World’s best-selling gadget magazine, to launch Firebox Inventor: a national search to find the next must-have product for 2010 and it might just be your idea that makes it onto our shelves! It could [...]
SmallBizTechnology.com reports that if you accept credit card data you must be compliant with the credit card companies guidelines. This is referred to as Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. You can find a lot of information at the PCI Security Standards Council web site. Of course one option is to NOT store credit card information. [...]
Best Inventions of 2009: The $10 Million Lightbulb
TIME‘s picks for the best new gadgets and breakthrough ideas of the year, we’ll feature some of the ones we find interesting. With the flick of a switch, Philips Electronics may have just dramatically lowered America’s electric bill. In September the Dutch electronics giant became the first to enter the U.S. Department of Energy’s L [...]
Next Year’s 10 Great Retail Trends
If the recovery stays on course, next year the retailers who survived the recession will begin to reap its benefits such as the market share and real estate coughed up by competitors who didn’t make it. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, reports TheAge.com. Even so, some of the most important expansion strategies that will play out [...]
Copyright Czar Vote Heads To Senate
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar, reports Wired. No Senate vote date was set immediately for a nominee who was applauded by both the “copyleft” and the “copyright.” Espinel is expected to have a key role for [...]
San Diego Business Journal Online: Carlsbad housewife-turned-entrepreneur Stacey Ross has taken the informality of a neighborhood mothers group to the Internet to build a thriving new business. Her enterprise, sandiegobargainmama.com, offers up a plethora of local bargains, discounts and handy tips, all targeting the market for nonworking moms with young children. “It certainly has been [...]
