Consumer Confidence Index dropped 9.8 points to 52.9 from 62.7. Consumer Confidence would be perfect at 100. The Consumer Confidence Survey® is based on a representative sample of 5,000 U.S. households. The monthly survey is conducted for The Conference Board.
What is a small business to do in a recovery that appears to be stalling? [...]
Monster cobbles up Hot Jobs from yahoo for $225 million. Yahoo continues to unload declining or non-core assets to flush up its’ financial position. Yahoo appears to be focusing on a content portal only play and leaving certain verticals like search, jobs etc… to players link Microsoft and Monster. The Hot Jobs acquisition comes [...]
The US Debt Limit made simple sums up in 5 minutes what this country has done since 1917 in regards to higher spending, raising debt and adding special interest programs. I usually try not get too political on Startup Addict Musings. However, this Debt Limit made simple video is a sobering message any American should [...]
I just returned from business in East Asia with stops in Seoul, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Taiwan. The photo to the left is a photo I took from a boat on the Han River in Shanghai. Shanghai is an amazing city essentially the size of two New York cities growing 10% annually. China [...]
Facebook buys friendfeed for an undisclosed amount. This makes the second acquisition for Facebook and has propelled the founders of Friendfeed to Facebook’s engineering team. The four founders of Friend feed were former Google employees and started the company in 2007 proving why droves of entrepreneurs left Google when the going was good and formed [...]
Amazon buys Zappos for just shy of a Billion dollars in a move to capitalize on market share for in the shoe market or more importantly a dedicated loyal fan Zappos fan base that generates revenue north of a billion dollars for the shoe company.
Zappos has built an incredible brand through fierce customer service [...]
The top franchises of 2009 (300 total) by AllBusiness has been chosen. The list is a wide range of likely and unlikely candidates from Subway in the #1 slot to Allover media bringing up the rear at number 300.
Here are the 300 franchise companies that our editors and experts chose as the [...]
Calling all startups and small businesses be sure to add these100 best web applications for entrepreneurs to your toolbox.
Whether you are looking for the ideal desktop collaboration software or trying to find online storage solutions, this list will have you up in running effectively on a “no to low budget”. Enjoy the list [...]
Came across a great article over at Inc about 30 great moments in entrepreneurship from 1979 -2009.
Go to the link and click on a year and see the great entrepreneurial successes for that respective year.
Twitter continues to be Silicon Valley’s microblogging platform of choice. As Twitter turns 3 years old (a teenager in Internet years) a very mature ecosystem is emerging and is becoming more of a disruptive technology rather than a novel add-on widget for traditional blogging sites and social networks.
A tell tale sign you’re dealing with a [...]
