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Why Facebook is for old farts: the demographics of social networking
in Sox First, on November 7, 2009
Earlier this year, we had the shocking news that the fastest growing group of Facebook users were the 55-plus age group. In a space of just six months, they had increased a whopping 513%. Time Magazine's Lev Grossman came up with reasons why Facebook was for old farts: Facebook is for fi...
Seen that? - A Question Of Ethics
in Bizinformer, on November 6, 2009
...subscription required) about the prescription drug trade, Internet marketing of said drugs, and the entrepreneurs that profit from differing laws between countries regarding prescription drug access. ...
Infonetics: VoIP Providers Earning Billions
in The VoIP Weblog, on October 31, 2009
...ys Infonetics analyst Diane Meyers . "On the business VoIP side, while managed IP PBX revenue growth has slowed in line with IP PBX shipments, we are expecting IP Centrex and hosted UC service r...
Seen that? - Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse
in P2P File Sharing, on October 31, 2009
... This article is one in a series examining the Pali Capital report that showed paid music download growth is slowing. Long-term change The long-term message is that the industry's problems can n...
Novel Antifungal Protein from Pumpkin Rinds
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 30, 2009
...e Jaguar Scientists have identified antimicrobial proteins from pumpkin rinds that can inhibit the growth of microbes, including Candida albicans which causes vaginal yeast infections, diaper rash ...
China Business Myths
in China Venture News, on October 29, 2009
...While a few years ago the export sector in China was half or more of the economy, domestic economic growth has reduced that percentage to just 20% of the economy.
The story makes you rethink what y...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-10-28
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Over-valued S&P to tumble and the double dip recession.
in Sox First, on October 27, 2009
... it being fulfilled. I may be wrong. I’ve been wrong before, but I just don’t see where the growth in the US economy can come from." Now we have another warning that it could drop sharply. Economis...
9 月 Twitter 用户访问量 5840 万
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-27
comScore 发布的 最新数据显示 ， Twitter 今年 9 月的全球用户访问量较 8 月份增加 6.7%，达到 5840 万。
倘若按照同比数据计算，则增幅高达 949%。其中，2090 万来自美国，但该数据自从今年 6 月以来便没有太大变化。
上述数据不包括通过手机和电脑客户端应用使用 Twitter 的访问量。但业内人士认为，如果 Twitter 希望成为首个获得 10 亿用户的服务，就必须要加快增长速度。即使以百分比计算，Facebook 在美国本土的增长速度也快于 Twitter ，其今年 9 月的全球用户访问量达到 4.11 亿，较 8 月增长 5...
The US's Reverse Brain Drain Will Benefit China, India
in Global Mobility Report, on October 26, 2009
... It's hard to see this as anything other than bad for the US and good for China and India (and for entrepreneurs doing business in China and India).
...
eBay 公布 2009 年第三季度财报
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-26
eBay发布了2009财年第三季度财报。 报告显示 ，eBay第三季度的净营收为22.38亿美元，比去年同期的21.18亿美元增长6%；净利润为3.497亿美元，比去年同期的4.922亿美元下滑29%。
在截至9月30日的这一财季，eBay的净营收为22.38亿美元，比去年同期的21.18亿美元增长6%；按照美国通用会计准则，eBay第三季度运营利润率为19.8%，低于去年同期的24.7%；按照美国通用会
计准则，eBay第三季度净利润为3.497亿美元，比去年同期的4.922亿美元下滑29%；按照美国通用会计准则，eBay第三季度每股摊薄收益为0.27美元，比去年同期的...
Hundreds lining up for low pay
in Sox First, on October 26, 2009
... of recovery. analysts have told AFP that unemployment won't come down until there is a sustained growth rate of 3%. Not just for one quarter either. Which is why we can expect to see more people l...
Turning Your Idea into a Business
in TJ's Weblog, on October 25, 2009
...bobs, but only a handful end up getting their new products to market. We spoke to a few hardy women entrepreneurs to give you an inside look at what it takes to turn an inspiration into a real, revenu...
Will an Innovation Shortage End China's Economic Growth?
in China Venture News, on October 25, 2009
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BusinessWeek ran a couple of articles this week ( here and here ) on China's economic growth and the expansion of the China economy into "sophisticated industries." Can the growth rate o...
Skype 发布 2009 年第三季度财报
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-26
尽管深陷与其创立者的法律纠纷中，Skype 仍然保持强劲的增长势头。其母公司 eBay 发布的三季度财报显示，公司非常满意 Skype 的表现。
Skype 在本财季用户增长了 41% 达到 5.21 亿人。仅在过去三个月中，公司的用户就增加了 4000 万人。
Skype 在本财季营收增加 29% 达 1.85 亿美元。Skype 拨打 Skype 电话（免费电话）通话时长增加 74%，达 277 亿分钟，而 SkypeOut（电脑对电话）的付费通话时间增长 44%，达到 31 亿分钟。
如果继续保持此势头，到 2011 年公司将轻松超越其每年营收 10 亿美元的...
Seen that? - Why the SBA may not be the best bet for entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on October 23, 2009
... Why the SBA may not be the best bet for entrepreneurs at BootStrapMe A first step for any small business person seeking to create a feasible bluepr...
Customized newspapers. Can they save the print industry?
in Sox First, on October 24, 2009
...ompletely new delivery models. Now we have an example of that happening in Germany where two young entrepreneurs have set up a new paper, called Niiu, which lets readers choose the types of articles ...
Managed and unmanaged social networks in the enterprise
in The CIO Weblog, on October 23, 2009
...best if someone is dedicated to shepherding the fledgling community and encouraging and shaping its growth. Business social networks are not, after all, things most users would be drawn to out of sel...
Cisco Agrees: P2P Use Declining
in P2P File Sharing, on October 22, 2009
...onthly traffic), I’m inclined to think that early adopters are now driving a lot of the traffic growth..."
More here from Multichannel News ... more here from TMCnet ... and the press re...
Seen that? - AOL, Yahoo Plan Paid E-Mail Service
in I got Spam?!, on October 21, 2009
...most threefold in the program's first six months, the Internet portal said this week. The rapid growth suggests that Yahoo's newspaper partnership strategy could prove far more successful than...
BioAccelerate NYC Prize To Fund Translational Research
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 18, 2009
...is translational funding produced positive results; and 2) whether the technology could support the growth of an independent enterprise over time. Some of the target activities include:
* Medic...
P2P Traffic Declining Dramatically Worldwide
in P2P File Sharing, on October 16, 2009
...often free or ad-supported sites."
"For years, commentators predicted that it'd be the growth of legitimate services that would bring an end to piracy, rather than legislation and lawsuit...
BroadSoft to Acquire Packet Island
in The VoIP Weblog, on October 15, 2009
...This merger will broaden BroadSoft's range of cloud-based communications offerings, provide revenue growth opportunities, and create long-term value for our service provider customers."
The co...
China's Entrepreneur Confidence Index is Up
in China Venture News, on October 14, 2009
....1 according to China CSR . The index, which measures the understanding, views, and projections of entrepreneurs, ranges from zero to 200. When it is higher than 100, it indicates optimism for an eco...
Avoiding Layoffs by Pruning and Upgrading
in Biz Plan Hacks, on October 14, 2009
... Make your personnel changes as you go. And make them in a timely manner, in ways that promote that growth. Otherwise, you may wake up one morning and figure out that you need to lay off a quater of o...
Seen that? - The Audeamus Awards Round #2
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 11, 2009
...re we... (Photo from PBS) Before getting to this week's social entrepreneurship awards, it should be noted that PBS has a program out on social entrepreneurs calle...
Seen that? - Nanotech market to top $1 trillion by 2010
in Nanotechbuzz, on October 12, 2009
... and devices was estimated at $7.6 billion in 2003. Demand is expected to grow at an average annual growth rate of 30.6% to reach $28.7 billion in 2008. It is believed that nanotechnology is growing ...
Seen that? - Another non-starter: Micropayments
in P2P File Sharing, on October 11, 2009
... This article is one in a series examining the Pali Capital report that showed paid music download growth is slowing. Long-term change The long-term message is that the industry's problems can n...
Greentech Sees Venture Capital Growth
in TJ's Weblog, on October 11, 2009
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Renewable Energy World is reporting that venture capital investment is on the upswing - at least in the green technology sector of the economy.
Third quarter numbers are out, and they're encouraging for both VC's and the greentech sector. Q1 this year saw 59 deals wo...
Rich getting richer
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
... the haves and have-nots could create a crisis later on as the world settles in for a period of low growth for many years ahead. ...
Turbo: The Movie Is Better Than Most Street Fighter Films
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-11
...es Expected to See Double Digit Growth
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Seen that? -
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 8, 2009
... CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST Link: Cristian Dorobanetscu Especially if you are a bootstrapper. Entrepreneurs are a special kind of people. They are ready to put a lot of work into some very uncer...
Seen that? - legal file sharing and movie downloads
in TJ's Weblog, on October 7, 2009
...otstrapping distribution at BootStrapMe For bootstrap entrepreneurs, the same file sharing that has created controversy for large media corporations may a...
Looking for Business Growth? Try Strands eCommerce Recommender for Your Website
in TJ's Weblog, on October 6, 2009
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It's a simple idea. People visit your website because they want something you have. How do you get them to buy more than just that one thing ? A recommendation engine may be the answer. It can point your website visitors to other products on your site that they could b...
Seen that? - Saif Partners Picks China TV Home-Shopping Network as the Next Big IPO
in China Venture News, on October 6, 2009
...venture capital firm is SAIF Partners. SAIF Partners describes itself as being focused on providing growth capital to companies in Asia that operate in the areas of business services, financial servic...
Four ways to create jobs in the recession
in Sox First, on October 6, 2009
...will be years before lost jobs return, health care and education will remain the key areas for jobs growth. These areas are also likely to grow because they will receive massive cash injections from g...
Only days left to get a climate change deal
in Sox First, on October 4, 2009
...orld. The developed world wants the big emerging economies to give firm undertakings on cutting the growth of their emissions. However, whilst some progress has been made on smaller problems, such as ...
Seen that? - 10 shoestring principles for business
in BootStrapMe, on October 2, 2009
... or no start-up funding help explain why bootstrap--or as Isidro calls them "shoestring"--entrepreneurs may sometimes have the edge. She writes: Success in entrepreneurship is not necessaril...
Seen that? - The Robin Hood Awards Round #1.5
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on October 2, 2009
...ng against injustice and tyranny? Robbing and fighting are a bit too harsh of words for what social entrepreneurs are up to, but they are interested in feeding the poor and fighting injustice and tyra...
Seen that? - Poker Billionaires
in Internet Poker, on October 2, 2009
...conomy among world cities by 2020, as reported by the BBC, so it's no surprise that the massive growth in business and financial services is expanding the ranks of the mega-rich.With all the money...
Do You Really Like ALL Your Customers?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on October 2, 2009
... is to find and build a solid customer base. Out of eagerness or desperation to build the business, entrepreneurs commonly take on any customer-good or bad. After all, a customer is a customer, right?...
IBM Opens Linux Innovation Center in Kazakhstan
in HackITLinux, on September 29, 2009
... and spur innovation."
"IBM is betting that places like Kazakhstan will eventually see growth as vendors spread their wares around the globe and local businesses move onto the Internet,&qu...
Do Venture Capitalists Foster Innovation, or Just Pay For It?
in TJ's Weblog, on September 28, 2009
...net/Web 2.0), they stake claim to 81% of the all jobs created. Yes, 81% . Can they please give the entrepreneurs who risk their life savings, max out their credit cards and put their families in the ...
Is Twitter really worth $1 billion?
in Sox First, on September 26, 2009
...are is slipping which, when you think about it, makes sense. No one can expect a 3000% year on year growth to last forever. As Dave Jeyes at Tech.blorge says, Twitter's big problem is it's ...
Outsourcing as an Economic Indicator
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 24, 2009
...ll be interesting to see whether offshoring becomes a leading or lagging indicator of labor market growth over the next two or three years. On the one hand, one could expect that firms will be relucta...
Airlines pledge cut in emissions
in Sox First, on September 24, 2009
...g net carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, compared with 2005 levels, making the entire industry's growth carbon-neutral by 2020, improving fuel efficiency by 1.5% each year over the next decade and ...
Recession to last until 2012 - Stiglitz
in Sox First, on September 20, 2009
...ast another three years. Even if the official data says the recession is over, with two quarters of growth, in practical terms it will still be in place. Stiglitz says: "There is likely to be we...
Facebook makes profit
in Sox First, on September 18, 2009
... the ads on the site are low cost although that might change. But then, there's no denying its growth. Facebook's user base is now nearly as big as the US population with 70% of its users o...
First Business? Some Tips...
in BootStrapMe, on September 14, 2009
...rs. If this is your first business, you should take note...
Tip number one? Focus! Many first-time entrepreneurs feel the need to jump at every "opportunity" they come across. Opportunities...
The next bubbles
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
...e social and psychological. We need an infrastructure that can anticipate our thinking, inhibit the growth of bubbles and stop the damage, not only to the economy but to the social fabric."...
Google and Mongolia: leading the way in solar power
in Sox First, on September 11, 2009
... not that much to buy. Still, it's developments like that which could turn solar energy into a growth industry. When the global economy starts to recover, it will be one of the leading sectors....
Valuing public goods using happiness surveys
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-11
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The US consumer economy is dead
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
...ts are fashioning a new global financial order." That means recovery will be anemic, economic growth will be around 2% and it would be five years until the economy generates enough jobs to make ...
Electric cars - no one will buy without Government backing
in Sox First, on September 6, 2009
...that has embraced electric cars is Israel, a country desperate for oil independence. As one of its entrepreneurs Shai Agassi told the Knowledge@Wharton series , the industry will grow and the techno...
The new normal
in Sox First, on September 4, 2009
...ncouraged home ownership are no more. So what can we expect? Obviously, we are in for years of low growth, more government intervention and the Asian and Asian connected economies driving whatever gr...
Malware threat grows: is the Internet burning?
in Sox First, on September 1, 2009
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The growth of web-delivered malware is alarming and the trend suggests we are struggling to deal with it. ZDNet UK reports that an average of 37,000 new malware samples are discovered and proc...
Be Your Spouse's Boss? Maybe...
in BootStrapMe, on September 1, 2009
... Women Entrepreneurs asked an interesting question that bootstrappers should consider: should you put your spouse on your payroll?
Of course, for them the issue was complicated by our society's ...
China's Investment-to-GDP Ratio
in China Venture News, on August 31, 2009
...e whims of others. When Consumer demand becomes a more powerful force in China, their economy's growth will become more consistent and stable.
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2009 Mid-Atlantic Biotech Conference
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 31, 2009
...and international industry leaders, government representatives, executives, researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, and professional services firms-representing 30 states and 10 countries.
This year&#...
China's Consumption Gap
in China Venture News, on August 30, 2009
...th Korea 48%.
So how much of its GDP does China consumer? 37%.
If China wants to see sustainable growth in the content of a consumer-oriented economy, the national mindset will have to change. It w...
Linux Market to Exceed $1 Billion by 2012
in HackITLinux, on August 30, 2009
...rch firm IDC finds that revenue from Linux OS software grew by 23.4% from 2007 to 2008, and that growth will continue from 2008-2013 at a compound annual growth rate of 16.9%, with worldwide Linux o...
USA - Boom der Öko -Aktien
in Bio Channel, on 30.08.09
...ere haben ihre Schwerpunkte dorthin verlagert", sagt Peter Dreide, Manager des 4Q Growth Fonds. Bis vor Kurzem hielt er die Unternehmen dennoch nicht für interessant genug, er wartete auf einen e...
2009 Mid-Atlantic Bio Conference Calls for Emerging Companies to Present to Investors
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 26, 2009
... tracks. In addition to our main "Showcase" track, we are also featuring a separate "Growth Watch" track for emerging companies. Mid-Atlantic Bio will provide a platform for these ...
Facebook's recruitment campaign
in Sox First, on August 26, 2009
...ECH and Google. On the face of things, Facebook looks like its doing the groundwork for a massive growth campaign but then, the company has to start making a profit. BusinessWeek reports: "Las...
Invoicing and Collections Policy
in Biz Plan Hacks, on August 25, 2009
... a collections policy for those occasions when people ignore your invoice?
I saw a post at Women Entrepreneurs recently - an excellent discussion of the need for a collections policy, along with so...
TCM Mobile and Ganton to Launch Cellular VoIP Network in India
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 24, 2009
...jiv Kapoor. "The launch of this revolutionary network will contribute greatly towards the GDP growth of India, in line with our National Telecom Policy's key objectives. This forward looking,...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-08-24
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The smart meter revolution
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
...ch systems on and off. At the same time, however, smart meters open the way for new industries and entrepreneurs. With smart meters, for example, consumers can rely on different retailers to handle d...
Cloud platform performance questioned
in The CIO Weblog, on August 21, 2009
...There is a new and somewhat unexpected threat to the growth and adoption of cloud computing services: performance and availability issues. Identified in a recently released study by Australian researc...
TAKE Supply Chain Acquires PSI Software company
in Supplychainer, on August 20, 2009
... evolving to meet these needs. TAKE Supply Chain's acquisition of PSI is a good example of this growth."
Based on both companies' vast experience working with the world's largest man...
