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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...
October 29, 2009
Poor Balloon Boy. At first we took pity on him when we heard that he might be trapped in a hot air balloon thousands of feet above the Colorado skies. Then we became ...
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...
May 4, 2009
A few things I'm not going to do in 2009: I'm not refitting my house for solar. I'm not going to buy an electric car. And no matter how much my daughter pleads with ...
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,...
April 14, 2009
Twitter executives don't disclose much about their plans to make money from the microblogging site. But that's not stopping scores of other companies trying to build ...
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 ...
January 29, 2009
The beginning of the year brought about two very traumatic and similar events that affected my small business. I had my first colonoscopy. And I purchased a BlackBerry...
January 6, 2009
A few months ago I was at a technology conference and things were abuzz. The results of a recent survey had just been announced and—gasp—it found that an ...
November 14, 2008
This week's $250 million funding for vacation home rental listing company HomeAway was the largest Web-related venture capital investment since the bubble days at the ...
October 12, 2008
Justin Esch and Dave Lefkow, founders of gourmet seasonings maker Bacon Salt, went out on an advertising limb. Typically, the Seattle entrepreneurs used MySpace and ...
October 10, 2008
Venture firms are sounding the alarm over what this downturn might mean for their portfolio companies. While it's true that great companies are built during downturns,...
October 6, 2008
Walter Reed Army Medical Center surgeons who treat soldiers wounded in the war in Iraq have grown accustomed to difficult operations. But some are more delicate than ...
October 6, 2008
No longer just the stuff of Hollywood movies and Silicon Valley video games, 3D technology is changing the way people do business everywhere. Consider Lori Coulter, a ...
October 1, 2008
Yes, I am an angry guy. I yell at other drivers. I roll my eyes when I have to stand in line for more than two minutes. I complain about Wall Street's greedy ...
September 30, 2008
As first-year CEO Brad Smith tries to reshape software maker Intuit for the online age, he has opened his Rolodex and is cribbing ideas from some tech industry icons. ...
August 29, 2008
Here are a few things, in no particular order, that this small business owner (and die-hard Phillies fan) would rather do than sit through a software demo: Shave my ...
August 5, 2008
Online storage companies pop up more frequently than mushrooms after a downpour in Southern France. And like the wild-growing fungus, not all of them are easily ...
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 ...
August 4, 2008
Managing computer systems distracts attention from your real business. Computers crash, and you fume helplessly as the IT staff restores your ordinary workflow. Just ...
July 24, 2008
Time to dispel a few popular myths. SUVs are not cool. They never were. You Hummer guys were drawing snickers a few years ago. Now, with the price of gas nearing $5 a ...
June 3, 2008
Bruce Hershenson, who auctions vintage posters online, is hanging up his eBay gavel. For almost a decade, Hershenson's business epitomized the e-commerce that made ...
