Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist reports, The New York Times.
These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume in the online game Sorority Life, [...]
The New York Times is reporting that PayPal is seeking new ways to use its payment system.
PayPal held its first developer conference in San Francisco to officially open its platform to software developers wanting to include payments in their Web or cellphone applications.
With the [...]
Is your franchise looking to build its presence online? If so, Daren Coudriet is the man to speak to. Coudriet, 44, has been in technology consulting and internet solutions for more than two decades and counted companies like The New York Times, Standard & Poor’s and [...]
Last month, the Center for Women’s Business Research released a study which found that 28 percent, or an estimated 8 million, of all U.S. businesses were women-owned, reports The New York Times.
The study also showed that those 8 million cross-industry businesses created or maintained 16 [...]
So, about 10 days later, exactly what effect has President Obama’s statements on the small business sector had on stabilizing confidence among entrepreneurs?
The answer seems to be mixed. If you’ve been following developments over on the You’re The Boss blog run by the New York Times, you’ll know [...]
The New York Times is reporting that according to comScore YouTube surpassed 10 billion views in a single month in the United States for the first time. That made YouTube nearly 20 times more popular than its nearest rival in online video, Microsoft, which showed just [...]
The New York Times interviewed Sharon Brown about the challenges of being a government contractor.
Q. When you started your business, Environmental and Occupational Safety Services, you did work for the state but didn’t consider bidding on a federal contract. Why?
A. I thought a federal contract [...]
Blogger Scott Shane at The New York Times ponders an interesting question…are entrepreneurs born or made?
The tendency to be an entrepreneur is heritable. (Heritability is the proportion of difference between individuals explained by genetic factors.)
We found these heritabilities were substantive regardless of what indications of [...]
The New York Times reports there are many federal contracting opportunities for small businesses, but to take advantage of them you have to know the ins and outs of the government’s contracting rules and regulations.
Of the more than 20 million small businesses in the United [...]
For more than 500 years the book has been a remarkably stable entity: a coherent string of connected words, printed on paper and bound between covers.
But in the age of the iPhone, Kindle and YouTube, the notion of the book [...]
Do you consider yourself a small-business owner? Or does that phrase make you cringe?
Often, the terms entrepreneur and small-business owner are used interchangeably — but that’s not quite right either.
Clearly, not all entrepreneurs are small-business owners and not all small-business [...]
If your business depends on free publicity from newspapers, what do you do when the papers can no longer afford to send reporters to cover you? In professional sports, the answer, increasingly, is hire your own.
The Los Angeles Kings hockey [...]
The ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb badly needs a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money — and more in government contracts — to the first company that figures out how to do it.
Right now, that [...]
