Archive for November 29th, 2010
What’s the ROI of a Handshake?
What is the ROI of a handshake? Is it even quantifiable? What value does the conversation and the relationship have? Of course it is. If you’re a small business owner you know that if you provide a good service for a customer they will tell people about what you’ve done for them. This is called [...]
Rumor: Google Buys Groupon For $2.5 Billion
According to news reports, Vatornews reports Google has bought Groupon for $2.5 billion citing a “reliable source” familiar with the situation. The acquisition – which is unconfirmed at this point – follows the rumors about Google being in talks to buy the popular local deals site, after Yahoo had failed to negotiate an acquisition for [...]
How AT&T Killed The Development Of Magnetic Tape
Gizmodo has an interesting story about Bell Labs back in the 1930s. In early 1934, Clarence Hickman, a Bell Labs engineer, had a secret machine, about six feet tall, standing in his office. It was a device without equal in the world, decades ahead of its time. If you called and there was no answer [...]
It’s often said that you should measure twice, and cut once. By double checking yourself, you’re preventing mistakes that will need fixed later. One inventor has decided that takes too long and created a measuring tape that allows people to literally measure and cut only once, reports The Republican. Three years ago, [Oded Peri] got [...]
Cool Calendar: Chrono-Shredder
Susanna Hertrich is the designer behind the “Chrono-Shredder” calendar. ‘The Chrono-Shredder is a device that reminds us of the preciousness of our lifetime. It represents the passing of time by shredding the days of the year – printed on a paper roll – at a slow constant rate. To shred one day takes 24 hours. [...]
What Julie Kelly loves most about her job does not necessarily reflect the work she does. She is able to be at home when her kids leave for school, and she’s there when they get home. However, that time in between it all is filled with a lot of work reports The Gazette. Kelly doesn’t [...]
Maker Savors Demand for Holiday’s Hot Toy
The New York Times is reporting that midway through last year, as analysts tried to predict where the economy was going, toy maker Bill Nichols decided he had the answer. He bet that the economy would still be so shaky this holiday season that a bargain-priced plastic toy would take off. With the help of [...]
Between ebooks and ipads, these are the devices that people are asking for this holiday season. Jerry Hagan hopes that people will also consider his product to be a necessary future accessory reports Coloradoan.com. Hagan designed two separate products: the Xero-g and the cradler. The Xero-g, named after zero gravity, is a 5-foot metal stand [...]
Offer Workers Healthcare, or Pay $2,000?
Many small businesses are still scrambling to grasp what federal healthcare reform will mean for them. Some are still in denial, hoping the healthcare bill can still be given a “mandate-ectomy,” or that their industry will be exempted. What will happen in 2014, when key provisions of the reform bill take effect and more businesses [...]
Holiday Spending To Be ‘Highest On Record’
CNet is reporting that according to ComScore, consumers spent $9.01 billion during the first three weeks of November, representing a 13 percent gain over the $7.95 billion spent during the same period last year. For the months of November and December combined, ComScore is forecasting $32.4 billion in online spending. Last year, consumers spent $29.1 [...]
