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May 10, 2011
(This story was corrected to show that Facebook is no longer a partner of PayNearMe.) For the 25 percent of Americans who lack credit or debit cards, a startup called ...
January 25, 2011
(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. plans to introduce services that would let customers use its iPhone and iPad computer to make purchases, said Richard Doherty, director of ...
January 9, 2011
If you're a Web service, especially a young startup, you want to get as many users as possible, right? But there are worse things than having a small number of ...
December 30, 2010
(Bloomberg) — Skype Technology SA, the biggest provider of international calls, introduced video calling for Apple Inc.'s wireless devices, a move that may broaden the...
September 23, 2010
LinkedIn, the largest networking site for online professionals, bought ChoiceVendor Inc., a website for reviews of business service providers. ChoiceVendor, a San ...
August 12, 2010
Opportunity cost: the cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a certain action (Investopedia) The easiest way to think about opportunity cost is...
December 30, 2009
(Bloomberg) — It took about 20 years before television viewers no longer had to wait for their sets to warm up. Yet here we are, 30-plus years into the personal ...
December 13, 2009
The flood of funding from the Energy Dept.'s $25 billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program—$8 billion for Tesla Motors, Nissan (NSANY:US), and ...
November 1, 2009
By Yardena Arar San Francisco - With so many Web sites offering capable—and free—personal finance management tools, why would you pay $30, or significantly more, for a...
October 18, 2009
Amid a tough economy, free or low-cost Web-based e-mail services such as Google's (GOOG) Gmail or Google Apps, Microsoft's Hotmail, and Yahoo! (YHOO) mail are hugely ...
September 10, 2009
There are a lot of things in this world that I just don't get. In one year, a well-known company sells 40 million books and videos and publishes 94 magazines for 8 ...
August 17, 2009
Meir M. "Manny" Lehman did a bad thing. A very bad thing. Oh sure, he may seem like a nice elderly gentleman. And he may seem all smart and accomplished, too. Over the...
April 26, 2009
Amazon tax fever is spreading. In the months since a New York State law took effect that imposes sales taxes on products promoted through Web sites based in the state,...
February 11, 2009
For a rookie, stock trading can be tough, especially in today's bear market. So when neophyte Carolyn Ferguson got started, she sought all the advice she could get. ...
February 4, 2009
It's an unseasonably warm January evening, and the darkened office in lower Manhattan is packed. This is the monthly meeting of a new group for entrepreneurs called ...
August 4, 2008
When hurricanes Katrina and Rita passed over Schumacher Group's multimillion-dollar data center in Louisiana in 2005, Doug Menefee, the company's chief information ...
