The New Zealand publishing business Fairfax reported a 29 per cent decline in profit in the six months to December 31 in Australian dollar terms, but online auction business Trade Me posted a 17 per cent increase in profit in New Zealand dollar terms. Source NZ Herald
The Google AdWords blog has announced the new display URL policy will take effect this week of February 24th. The new policy, which was reported by Barry Schwartz at the Search Engine Round table about a month ago, will disallow multiple display domains per ad group.
Antony Beswick from NZ is heading the initiative held by technology giant Sony Ericsson to help telcos get a piece of the social web. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Sony Ericsson unveiled a web-hosted “white label” portal. This white label application lets mobile network operators provide their own-branded social networking sites to allow [...]
Twitter is working to convert its popularity into a business. Twitter has begun testing its search features on a few accounts prior to releases it in the open. The search is now please on the main Twitter.com page. This information was provided by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in a blog posting.
Microsoft had a payroll error and overpaid severance to some of its recently laid off employees, they are now asking for their money back. It appears that Microsoft HR isn’t even bothering to explain how it happened
An article claiming that someone found Atlantis using Google Earth has been published by The Sun. The possibility of an extraordinary discovery had oceanographers and geophysicists captivated. According to a Google spokesperson,the criss-crossing lines were sonar data collected as boats mapped the ocean floor. But google……
Facebook has settled last summer a dispute with a rival social network, ConnectU. The ConnectU founders — the Winklevoss brothers and colleague Divya Narendra had accused Zuckerberg of ripping off their idea for a college-based social network. The case was settled for $65 million.The Associated Press has obtained a court filing………
A new US study conducted found that out of the 28,000 passwords recently stolen from a popular US website people often do the easy thing. 16 percent took a first name as a password. 14 percent relied on combination’s such as “1234″ or “12345678.”Five percent were names of television shows or stars.Four percent accounted for [...]
The protest campaign is encouraging New Zealand users of social media to black out their images this week in protest at section 92a of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act. The campaign has been launched by the Creative Freedom Foundation NZ. The Guilt Upon Accusation law ‘Section 92A’ that calls for internet disconnection based on [...]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $12.5 million to support 20 projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The goal is to Supply 20 million unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012. The Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) will work with mobile operators, banks, finance institutions, government to encourage affordable mobile [...]
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As a small business owner have you questioned whether your small business marketing is heading the right track? Madonna has reinvented herself time and again. No matter how you look at it , some pop stars and a few businesses have mastered the art of business marketing. If you watch closely the life path that [...]
Today I start a new habit and this habit is to help me simplify and organize my workload while improving my productivity and efficiency during the day. I am not an early riser so my new habit involves making an effort to wake up at a time that is structured rather than any time is [...]
Lately we have gone through the exercises that allowed us to seriously review whether Entrepreneurship is something we want to focus on? Some of us are hell bent on creating a small business. We later went through the review process of the risks involved in setting up a business. Now it’s time to put a [...]
I am thrilled with the response I received via email last night around my post Are You really a Small Business Entrepreneur. Based on your feedback I shall focus my energy around researching topics such as: Business startup idea’s Entrepreneurship Business processes required to run your small business to break even Ways to market your [...]
As a small business entrepreneur if this is your first initiative then please take some time to review your options before you get right stuck into it. When I started my first business it failed and it failed miserably, now when I look back all I can say was that I was naive and unaware [...]
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