Archive for the ‘BUSINESS’ Category

How to Perform Controlled Tests to Collect Customer Data

On Friday, May 17th, 2013
customer data media Creating a top-notch email marketing campaign or company web site can include strenuous tasks. Content, software solutions, coding, and layout design need to mesh together to create the best presentation. Campaigns are not complete once emails are sent out and websites go live. Marketers must collect information about the best possible times, styles, and subject ...

General Motors Started Rolling Again

On Friday, May 17th, 2013
Car factory If you agreed with the General Motors auto bailout or not, it appears to be winding down. The U.S. Treasury announced yesterday, 5/6/13, that it will sell its approximately 241.7 million shares of General Motors common stock. In a press release, Tim Massad, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability stated, “TARP’s emergency support to GM ...

Nokia Banking Now on Social Media

On Monday, May 6th, 2013
Nokia 105 cheapest phone In an effort to undercut the low end cell market, with some Samsung’s retailing at $100, Nokia has introduced the Nokia Asha 210. Designed for the social media consumer lifestyle. The Nokia Asha 210 will retail at around $72, and claims to put your social life front and center with their QWERTY keyboard, dedicated WhatsApp ...

Return of CEO Brian Lee Revitalizes ShoeDazzle

On Friday, May 3rd, 2013
shoedazzle logo Brian Lee, entrepreneur extraordinaire, currently the co-founder of two websites, both the brainchildren of Hollywood stars, is a mastermind of electronic commerce. A perpetual innovator, Lee co-founded LegalZoom with Robert Shapiro, famed lawyer for OJ Simspon. Lee then went on to be CEO and Founder of ShoeDazzle.com and recently returned after what was meant to ...

Cord Blood. New Stock? Future of Medicine? Stem Cell

On Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Science One cord (umbilical cord) blood bank doing well in a group of falling stocks is Perkin Elmer Inc, a family cord blood and tissue preservation business. At time of deadline they were at $30.55. The stem cell industry is projected to reach $15 billion by 2015, but some cord blood banks are seeing poor performance ...

Kodak To Emerge From Bankruptcy A B2B

On Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
kodak Take a picture for posterity. Eastman Kodak has filed papers in U.S. Bankruptcy court for the Southern District of New York bankruptcy court under Chapter 11. They plan to emerge in June with a plan to become a B2B player in the commercial imaging sector. If the execution of their Chapter 11 works as planned, ...

First Lady Opens Tech Door to Service Members

On Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Michelle Obama Service members face big challenges when they come home. Don’t forget what happened with Vietnam. Now the White House, with a push from First Lady Michelle Obama, has partnered with some of the biggest technology powerhouses in America to get them jobs before they even leave the force. The new program is known as, The ...

U.S. Treasury’s Balance Books Improved: $75 Billion

On Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Market stock The Fed is actually seeing money on it’s balance sheets. They’re planning to pay off $35 billion in net marketable debt in June of 2013. The Treasury is assuming an end-of-June cash balance of $75 billion. The decrease in borrowing is attributed to “higher receipts, lower outlays, and changes in cash balance assumptions.” The issuing ...

As Market Grows, Renewable Stocks Perform

On Monday, April 29th, 2013
Renewable energy Renewable energy stocks are up today, 4/25/13, across the board. From Waste Management, Geothermal, Electricity to Wind, renewable i seeing a boost.s The potential market has grown significantly since the Swanson effect dropped the price of a solar watt 99.14 percent from the 1977 price of $76.67 per watt, to a predicted $.74 in 2013. ...

Dirtiest Fruits, Organic Farming and The Food Market

On Friday, April 26th, 2013
Dirtiest fruits food Food commodities fell today, 4/23/13, with July wheat, corn and soybeans seeing a slide of 7, 6.9555, and 9.5 cents, source, A.P. Is the new commodity a clean Fresa? In a report released by BlackRock Inc, new growth in food production will come from companies and products that serve urbanization, food sufficiency and a big ...

PETA Buys SeaWorld Shares In Hopes of Saving Orcas

On Thursday, April 25th, 2013
SeaWorld PETA (or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has bought 80 shares of SeaWorld for about $2,273 after the amusement park company went public on April 19th.  This is the minimum amount of shares needed in order to attend yearly meetings and call for policy changes. The first change that PETA is calling for ...

Invest in Cannabis the Right Way

On Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Marijuana market “Cannabis is going to be the next great American industry,” straight from the Marijuana Venture Capitalist himself, Troy Dayton. CEO of ArcView, the Marijuana investors Angel Network. ArcView has a little over 50 investors. All accredited. Some billionaires. Some with smaller amounts of venture capital. And invests in the ancillary pot market. They own See ...

Marijuana Stocks: Legal market estimated at $8.9B by 2016

On Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
Marijuana market Marijuana Stocks, while not up in smoke, are down. What’s that? Even the illegal, estimated $18 Billion a year, marijuana market is being traded on the world’s exchange? Well, not exactly, it’s estimated at billions per year, ancillary market is where the money is now. Since it’s still federally illegal to grow and distribute this ...

Supercell Efficiently Ruling the App Store

On Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
strategy game Supercell, based out of Finland, has been the hottest gaming company in the app store since producing Clash of Clans in August 2012 and Hay Day in June 2012. After months of floating around the top 5 highest grossing apps, it was recently revealed that both games combined are currently bringing in $2.4 million a ...

Netflix Reports Positive First Quarter Earnings

On Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
netflix The show cost around $100 million dollars to produce and premiered on February 1st of this year. This is a staggering price tag but Netflix claims that they would have spent about the same amount of money creating an online streaming deal with an outside studio. These streaming deals are only getting more pricey and ...