2010 dramatically changed how we think about how people and businesses exchange money. We saw ecommerce continue to grow and we saw emerging channels take flight with consumers and merchants of all sizes. Osama Bedier from PayPal shares his views with Mobile Beat. Mobile, mobile, mobile Wallet in the cloud. The digital wallet. Call it […]
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Amid strict lending restrictions, slowly rising retail prices, and sluggish hiring, where are the bright spots for 2011? The Wall Street Journal has compiled an in-depth report detailing the climate for small business in 2011. And guess what? It’s not so bad. Small businesses are expected to increase their head-counts this year, more small businesses
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According to Inc.com, radical transparency is so last decade. Privacy and security are the new concerns swimming in the zeitgeist. Blame it on brouhahas over airport body scanners, WikiLeaks, and customer tracking by Web companies. Look for more upstarts like LifeLock, which offers identity theft protection, and Reputation Defender, which offers a service to remove
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In September, Steve Jobs introduced his company’s Apple TV, a little box that lives on top of your television and streams movies, as “one more hobby.” Inc.com reports that competition for your home-entertainment is getting serious. Google and start-ups like Boxee, Hulu, and Roku are jostling for space on your television screen with stand-alone gadgets
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According to Dawn Rivers Baker over at SmallBizTrends.com, microbusiness opportunities often build from everybody else’s opportunities. If one of the big trends to watch in 2011 is travel and tourism, then the microbusiness opportunity lies in providing the personal touch—for example, via a B&B or by supplying the handcrafted soaps used by the local Big
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Online retailers have always competed by offering convenience and low prices, but they’ve lately began to master the art of getting people to buy things they don’t yet know they want. Inc.com reports that these new start-ups–like Gilt Group, LivingSocial, and Groupon–send locally targeted e-mails (hello, Shreveport, Louisiana!), give huge discounts (50 percent off is
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Hard to believe, but according to the learned folks at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the economy’s been in recovery since June 2009. Entrepreneur.com reports that a big reason for the stagnation so far has been, well, YOU. Tons of people–71 percent, says a recent survey by Discover Small Business Watch–are waiting for economic
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As we approach the imminent launch of the Apple Tablet and analyze new trends coming out of out of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, now is good time to reflect on what the web will look like in the next decade – and beyond, so says Ben Parr over at Mashable.com. 1. The Web Will
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Over the holidays, trendspotter Springwise reviewed all of the smart new business ideas they covered in 2009, and selected some that they believe will provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2010. Needless to say, it was a huge challenge to pick from such a wide range of innovative concepts. Small-Scale Food Production Using Membership
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Today, it is impossible to separate social media from the online world. Facebook reached 350 million users last month — 70% of whom are outside the US — and it accounts for 25% of the Web’s traffic, according to Pew nearly one in five people on the web use Twitter or some other service to
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