Tag Archives: Business and Economics

A history, in words and pictures, of the People Who Love Macs.

The Wharton School spoke to four of their professors about the economic outlook for ’05: Investors, consumers and businesses have had a fair share of concerns in 2004: high fuel prices, less-than-stellar job growth and volatile swings in the stock market, which remains well below the highs set four years …

Those festive folks at the U.S. Census Bureau have come up with an assortment of holiday season fun facts and statistics with a particular eye on America’s most revered seasonal tradition: buying things: Christmas Trees, Ornaments and Gifts $521 million The amount of money the nation’s Christmas tree farmers received …

I am honored and humbled — to a degree of which my typically expansive ego is unaccustomed — to have been asked by Small Business Trends to speak live on the global nerve-net as part of their speaker’s series “SMB Trendwire” Thursday, December 16 at 4pm ET. The conversation with …

Since we have hitched our wagon to their star, I can’t be called neutral, but I think Amazon is a reliable, generally customer-friendly company that has blazed the trail for general online retail for the masses. That they are actually making money at it is impressive and reassuring for e-business …

Fear not the great cultural/political clampdown, for it isn't coming.

It takes a special kind of star to remain in the limelight after passing to the Great Beyond, and Elvis is still the King when it comes to generating big bucks from the grave. While moldering for 27 years now, Elvis managed to crank out $40m last year alone for …

If you have been following along closely, you know that in June we had to switch hosting companies on very short notice and under extreme duress. Our good friend and scripting demi-god TDavid recommended Cyberwurx, which he assured us could handle our very strange configuration, multiple users, and keep us …

The trend toward corporate broadcast media consolidation – led by poster children against the trend Clear Channel and Sinclair Broadcasting – has reduced localism in broadcasting and reduced variety over the airwaves. Ironically, satellite radio, which is literally the same all over the nation, is where the variety is, since …

mi2g Intelligence Unit, the U.K. digital risk assessment and security company, has some very sobering news regarding hacking trends: The phenomenon of Islamic hacking for political purposes did not exist in any significant measure prior to the 9/11 events in 2001, save India-Pakistan and Israel-Palestine localised cyber skirmishes. International Islamic …