March 16, 2010

Kim Kardashian: ShoeDazzle

Founded: 2009 What it is: ShoeDazzle is an online membership club that offers subscribers access to “celebrity fashion stylists” and pretty shoes for cheap. It’s kind of like Netflix, for footwear. Success: Exact numbers are difficult to find, but business seems to be good. Kardashian recently broadcast that the site hit the milestone of shipping

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Internet Cybercrime Report

The FBI has released its annual “Internet Cybercrime Report” and surprise, surprise; Internet crime complaints are up dramatically, reports Inc.com. Total dollar losses related to Internet crimes reported to the FBI topped $559 million dollars in 2009. That’s up from $264 million dollars in 2008. That’s what I call a dramatic increase. Either cybercrime is

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Niche Biz: Turbie Twist

In 2005, new college graduate Angela Carr and her slightly younger sister Christina Cummings found themselves buying the rights for a small, super-absorbent hair towel from Pittsburgh Plastics, a company that the sisters felt was vastly underutilizing the product, according to a story at Inc.com. The women renamed the hair towel the Turbie Twist and

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Local Franchisee Featured In Pizza Delight Television Commercial

Canada NewsWire: As television sets get turned on in Northern New Brunswick people will notice a familiar face on screen. The thirty second commercial features Serge D’Astous, a Pizza Delight franchisee in Bathurst, Shippagan and Tracadie, in the new spot, which promotes the chains newest menu items. “We’re excited for Serge to have been part

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Cash Is So Twentieth Century

While PayPal has been less and less relevant, thanks to competitors like Google Checkout and Amazon, they may just stage a comeback with an idea that’s cute and useful at the same time: a bump-triggered iPhone app, reports Fast Company. Bump Technologies, the company that makes the Bump iPhone app, provided the underlying tech for

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