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. […]
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Eve Tahmincioglu at MSN Business has an interesting article about start-up business scammers. Just ask V.M. from the Austin, Texas, area. A longtime entrepreneur in the home-building industry, he had visions of launching his own online travel and health-care insurance business but ended up out nearly $5,000. He didn’t want his name used because he’s
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Business Week: Dan Reynolds didn’t set out to become an entrepreneur. Instead, the full-time firefighter and former commercial truck salesman from suburban Chicago wanted to hire on with a big crime-scene cleanup company. But when he was treated rudely during his interview in early 2007, he vowed to found his own company as payback. His
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Sun Media: A Winnipeg inventor has won a $10,000 award for creating an electrically-charged replica knife that helps police, border guards and other law enforcement types learn what it feels like to get slashed. Police officer Jeff Quail invented the Shocknife in 2005 to add an element of authenticity to law enforcement training, which he
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CityNews: For years, the greeting card industry has been pretty much the same. You can get a million different messages that say “Happy Birthday”, “Congratulations,” “Best Wishes For Your Engagement/Wedding,” “In Sympathy,” “Get Well Soon” and on and on. In the past few years, there have been some slight additions, including kudos on a divorce
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The New York Times: Most of us think we’re far too savvy to be taken in by some advertisement promoting a work-at-home opportunity that promises great income with minimal work. That’s for those rubes who also fall prey to Nigerian e-mail messages promising untold riches or who believe that a pill a day will melt
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photo credit: Adam Finley It happens every summer. Someone calls the police and reports that juveniles are selling their product on the street corner. What’s the “dangerous” product? Lemonade, of course. The call came in at 7:06 p.m. Juveniles, seven of them, on a quiet residential street, selling an uncontrolled substance: lemonade. A neighbor had
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photo credit: d70focus As we go through our day even in the business world, we throw a lot of our personal information and business information around every day. There are thousands of hackers out there just waiting to scope this information out and use it against you and your company which can mean big trouble
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Star News: The Better Business Bureau warns small business owners that reports of scammers plying their trade through telephone relay services – typically used by the hearing impaired to make phone calls – are cropping up all across the country. BBB has received reports from many types of businesses that received suspicious orders through TTY
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Inc.: Hans Becker’s company, which provides landscaping for businesses and homeowners, is less than a year old but already employs eight and logs $10,000 a month in sales in high season. Such rapid growth has tested the first-time founder’s managerial skills. “It’s so hard to get professional help, man,” he says. If Becker sounds like
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