Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
The first mobile device powered by Google Inc.’s (GOOG)
“Android” mobile-phone software will be launched Tuesday in New York. The smartphone is expected to sell for $199.
It will require a service contract with T-Mobile USA, which is hoping the price of the phone and the data service will make it attractive to the mass consumer market, rather than just gadget lovers.
written by: Scottrade
Deal With Reliance ADA
The principals of DreamWorks SKG (DWA) have completed
a long-anticipated deal with one of India’s largest entertainment
conglomerates to set up a new $1.2 billion film
company, according to people familiar with the matter.
The deal gives DreamWorks co-founder Steven Spielberg
and his team the financial support they need to leave
Viacom Inc.’s (VIA) Paramount Pictures and start a new
venture. Under the signed agreement, Mumbai-based
Reliance ADA Group will invest $500 million equity and
provide another $700 million in debt through J.P Morgan
Chase & Co. toward the new venture, which will produce a
slate of about six films a year. News of the talks between
DreamWorks principals and Reliance first surfaced in June,
but an agreement wasn’t finalized until now, these people
said. The new company will be headed by Mr. Spielberg
and DreamWorks Chief Executive Stacey Snider.
Written by: Scottrade
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
yen. The dollar bill yall, just can't handle it. We see why they call themselves brokers, they will break u. People do your on investing, an let them be broke...
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
JANCO upgraded SIRIUS XM Radio (Nasdaq: SIRI) to Buy, but said they are doing so cautiously. The firm cited the recent significant decline in share price. JANCO believes in the long-term satellite radio sector, as well as SIRI's management team. The firm has a price target of $2.25.
written by: StreetInsider.com
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Written by Amit Agarwal on September 8, 2008
Google just announced that they are scanning millions of pages of old newspapers and will make that content available through Google News Archives. With this, they also got one step closer to their mission of "organizing world’s information."
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Lives in the world of the Matrix, an illusory construct in which humans are neurally connected to a gigantic computer system which simulates the world of the 20th century.
Those who live their entire lives connected to the Matrix are unaware that their reality is not in fact real. When the nature of the Matrix is revealed to , ???(me) or u, I/u become part of the human resistance against corporations.
Lehman Share Plunge Hurts Stocks
Sunday, September 07, 2008
5 Success Tips You Never Learn in School
5 Success Tips You Never Learn in School
Posted By Anita Campbell On August 25, 2008 @ 2:20 pm In Featured, Small Biz Success | 28 Comments
Probably the most important success skills I’ve learned in business involve overcoming my own negative emotions and personality traits and habits. Call it learning “life skills for entrepreneurs.”
I’d like to share 5 lessons I’ve learned, that I wish I’d learned in college — or much earlier on in my business career. These five things have had the biggest impact on my success so far in my small business:
1. Stop Being a Control Freak
Learning the fine line between giving direction and delegating is one of the toughest things for me. My natural tendency is to want to do it all myself. Of course, I can’t.
I have to keep checking myself. I’m far from perfect. But I’ve found that it helps to visualize the power of leverage. Getting 5 sets of hands working on your business means greater success than one set of hands — even if those hands are part-time or just a few hours a month from a service provider.
Try visualizing this incredibly simple graphic if you, too, need help checking your tendencies to be a control freak:
2. Build Incrementally
There are different schools of thought about growth. Some are of the “go big or go home” approach. Been there, done that.
The approach that I feel most comfortable with is one of developing products and services gradually, making incremental enhancements.
Start small, spend as little as you can, and build on early successes. Quickly dump the stuff that doesn’t work out.
If you take this approach, your risks of going down the wrong path and spending lots of development time and money on offerings that fail, will be minimal.
It’s also a way to gather market research along the way. You learn what customers want and you’re early enough you can build that feedback into your offering.
3. Think About a Business Problem the Last Thing at Night
Often you hear advice that suggests you should compartmentalize and put your problems out of your mind, especially late at night when you want to get some sleep. But for solving business problems, I’ve found the opposite works. I will sit down at my computer for 15 minutes right before going to bed. I’ll look at an email message that outlines a troubling problem or I will just jot down a problem and study it. I say to myself, “I’ll think about this overnight.” Then I go to bed.
You see, your subconscious mind works while you sleep. Thinking about a business problem the last thing at night is how you harness your subconscious to work on that problem.
Sometimes I literally will wake up with the solution — or easily think of several potential solutions the next day.
4. Treat Your Computer Systems Like a Factory Production Line
For millions of business owners like me, our computers are the biggest set of business equipment we have — and they’re crucial. Without a computer system, I cannot operate my business.
Yet, why do so many of us still treat our computer systems as if they’re discretionary gadgets? That’s one of the mysteries of the universe.
It’s the Rodney Dangerfield syndrome — they “get no respect.” We don’t back up our data regularly. We don’t do maintenance (such as de-fragging or critical updates) the way we should. Our electronic files are a disorganized mess. We practically ignore our computer systems until a problem happens. Then the problem turns into a full-blown crisis.
When I worked in the corporate world, the division I worked in had a factory. The division was in the electronic publishing industry, and the factory involved scanning of documents, manual data entry, and the output of CDs and microfiche at the other end. Knowledge-work, but still a factory. Business was booming and that factory operated 3 shifts, 24 hours a day.
Often when I would visit the factory, I would see a part of one operation or another shut down for a few hours, while the employees worked on maintaining the equipment (including computer equipment).
The plant manager never said to himself, “we’re so busy we can’t afford to stop and do a few hours maintenance.” No, he knew that regular maintenance would keep the production lines running and yield the highest throughput each month.
5. Pretend you Have an Accounting Department
Everybody in business hears the standard advice about the need to track and understand your financial numbers. Unfortunately, that kind of advice is easy to give, but hard to follow.
Part of the reason startup entrepreneurs avoid bookkeeping in the early years is that the numbers can be flat-out dismal. I hate to look at bad numbers.
I like to work on things that make me feel good. Paltry numbers or negative bottom lines do not make me feel good.
But you know what? Those numbers are unlikely to get better unless we as business owners find the courage to face them.
The biggest challenge for me was getting past my emotional block. To overcome that block, I would pretend I had an accounting department. I scheduled a few hours every weekend to “be the accounting department.” It wasn’t ME personally looking at the numbers, something that would have made me feel like I personally was failing. Rather, it was the accounting department looking at the numbers — in a detached manner.
Looking at your financial numbers is one of the most clarifying of activities. I was able to “see” things in my business I never saw before, weed out the low value activities, and focus on profitability.
Article printed from Small Business Trends: http://www.smallbiztrends.com
URL to article: http://www.smallbiztrends.com/2008/08/5-success-tips-you-never-learn-in-school.html/
A list of the five most important lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur: Guy Kawasaki
A list of the five most important lessons I’ve learned as an entrepreneur:
Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and blogger, Guy Kawasaki
1. Focus on cash flow. I understand the difference between cash flow and profitability, and I’m not recommending that you strive for a lack of profitability. But cash is what keeps the doors open and pays the bills.
2. Make a little progress every day. My theory is that you make a little bit of progress every day–whether that’s making your product slightly better, increasing your skill in one small way, or closing one more customer.
3. Try stuff. Luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze.
4. Ignore schmexperts. Schmexperts are the totally bad combination of schmucks who are experts–or experts who are schmucks.
5. Never ask anyone to do something that you wouldn’t do.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Monday, September 01, 2008
Microsoft Buys Greenfield Online
Microsoft Buys Greenfield Online
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) agreed to buy Greenfield Online
Inc. (SRVY) for $486 million, propelling the software giant
into the European market for shopping comparison Web
sites for computers, cameras and other merchandise.
Greenfield, based in Wilton, Conn., runs a Web site called
Ciao for people to compare prices, and review products
and the merchants selling. Greenfield is paid a commission
from the merchants when people use the site to buy products.
Microsoft bought a similar site in the U.S. last year
called Jellyfish.
Buying Greenfield is a quick way for Microsoft to get into
Europe’s price-comparison market. Ciao has signed up
2,200 merchants, and gets 26.5 million visitors a month,
according to ComScore Inc. data cited by Microsoft. It
operates in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the
Netherlands and Sweden.