Archive for December 23rd, 2009
Give Someone A Small Biz For Christmas
Rhonda Abrams at USA Today has a great idea for a holiday gift. If you know a friend or relative who has been thinking of starting a small business, give them the tools to do just that.
What Will We Call The New Decade?
Blame “the media” if you want. But come January 1, we’ll dump the “two-thousands,” and we’ll get cozy with the “twenty-tens.” So say the language mavens, reports The Plain Dealer. In 2000, there were “uncertainties,” said David Crystal of the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, so we ignored the example of 1900 (“nineteen-hundred”), and [...]
The Unexpected Power Of $10 To $20
Gary Ribble would not be able to read this story if not for people like you, according to a story at CNN.com. Ribble, who has chronic lymphocytic leukemia in addition to severe diabetes and impaired hearing, needed new eyeglasses last spring but couldn’t afford them after losing a job he’d held for more than 40 [...]
How One Little Christmas Song Became A Big Biz
It arrived 30 years ago, a rebellious little ditty that became the ultimate anti-Christmas carol by killing off an eggnog-loving Grandma in the very first line, says The Dallas Morning News. But during those 30 years, “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” has become a holiday classic. Songwriter Randy Brooks estimates 40 million copies [...]
Nearsightedness Rising In U.S.
The proportion of Americans ages 12 to 54 who need corrective lenses for distance sight has risen in recent decades, increasing to almost 42 percent in 1999-2004, up from 25 percent in the early 1970s, The New York Times reports a national study has found. While the prevalence of nearsightedness has increased around the world, [...]
Biz Rumor: Twitter Is Profitable
Content deals with Google and Microsoft, plus renegotiated rates with the telecom companies that carry its members’ tweets, have combined to make Twitter profitable, BusinessWeek reports. The Google deal and Microsoft deal, both announced in October, make Twitter members’ content available to Google’s search engine and to Microsoft’s Bing. These deals are worth around $25 [...]
New Mom & Physician Create Baby Boutique
SignOnSanDiego.com: The boutique, which opened in September, is the brainchild of an Encinitas obstetrician, Dr. Robert Biter, and retail business consultant Laura Ann Fairchild. They met last year when Fairchild was pregnant with her first child and Biter was her physician. “We offer the one-stop shop, the learning environment where you can buy products approved [...]
