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Online Business Networks - Building
Quality Business Relationships on the
Internet

Online Business Networks - Building
Quality Business Relationships on the
Internet 12/28/2004 06:58 AM

Online Business Networks

Online Business Networks - Building Quality Business Relationships on the Internet
http://www.onlinebusines snetworks.com/

Reach More of the Right People Faster with Less Effort. Business is under pressure now more than ever to do more with less — bigger, better, cheaper, faster. But at what cost? At the cost of human relationships? It doesn't have to be. The internet offers powerful tools to help you find the right people, connect with them, build trust and rapport, and collaborate with them quickly and cost-effectively. This is a good guide with some fine resources. This has been added to my white paper Online Social Networking.

Business-to-business online ad network
launches

Business-to-business online ad network
launches 09/13/2004 07:15 AM
ThomasB2B.com LLC will officially launch on Monday a new online advertising network which is modeled after general-purpose ones from the likes of Yahoo Inc.'s Overture and Google Inc. but which differs in two key aspects: first, it is focused exclusively on the business-to-business market; and second, it matches ads with search queries and content through predefined categories, not keywords.

WebsiteOnThePhone.com (a business
division of Sri IIST Inc, TX) announces
the launch of Rental Management System
(RMS) - an easy-to-use off-the-shelf
software for starting an own online
video rental business.

WebsiteOnThePhone.com (a business
division of Sri IIST Inc, TX) announces
the launch of Rental Management System
(RMS) - an easy-to-use off-the-shelf
software for starting an own online
video rental business. 09/19/2004 02:24 AM
The RMS web application software allows complete automation of account creation, inventory management, tracking of rentals, customer management, rewards programs and more for the online video rental business. The online video rental store will have the capability to process payments using all major credit card processing vendors such as Card Services International, WorldPay, Authorize.net, Verisign, 2Checkout.com, Paypal, etc. [PRWEB Sep 19, 2004]

Olympics to Have Live Online Coverage,
But Not For Americans

Olympics to Have Live Online Coverage,
But Not For Americans 08/06/2004 04:29 PM
Slashdot Aug 6 2004 9:20PM GMT

Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents

Businesses For Sale in Northern and
Southern California Reached a Record
Number 368 Business & Franchise Sales
This Past Week from Business Brokers,
Small Business Owners, & Real Estate
Agents 05/31/2004 01:52 PM
Businesses for sale in Northern and Southern California reached a record number 368 business & franchise sales this past week from business brokers, small business owners, & real estate agents for the week of May 17, 2004 thru May 23, 2004. [PRWEB May 27, 2004]

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Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California.

Northern And Southern California
Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past
Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales.
These Small Businesses Were Sold By
Business Brokers, Small Business Owners,
& Real Estate Agents Throughout
California. 06/23/2004 03:08 AM
Northern And Southern California Businesses For Sale Dipped This Past Week To 324 Business & Franchise Sales. These Small Businesses Were Sold By Business Brokers, Small Business Owners, & Real Estate Agents Throughout California. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

Drawbacks hinder live chats utility, but
business rules help resolve them

Drawbacks hinder live chats utility, but
business rules help resolve them 05/20/2004 04:14 PM
InternetRetailer.com May 20 2004 8:08PM GMT

7 Rules To Live By When Choosing An
Affiliate Program Or Work at Home
Business

7 Rules To Live By When Choosing An
Affiliate Program Or Work at Home
Business 05/18/2004 05:58 PM
WebDevInfo May 18 2004 9:09PM GMT

"New York Times: Business"

"New York Times: Business" 12/20/2003 03:50 PM

Online Billing - Small Business
Accepting Online Payment with 2ndSite’s
Free Service

Online Billing - Small Business
Accepting Online Payment with 2ndSite’s
Free Service 09/02/2004 02:06 AM
Before you send your next invoice, make sure you are not wasting time or money. Small businesses have begun to recognize the cost savings afforded by online billing thanks to 2ndSite Inc.’s free online billing service. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

SF Business Times has a Slow News Day

SF Business Times has a Slow News Day 12/15/2003 03:17 PM
How do I know? Easy. They ran a story that contains, among other things, this text: Always out on the cutting edge of technology, those early-adopters at Google Inc. are already comfortably seated on the next digital frontier. Or perhaps just in the next stall. The noted Internet search engine has recently installed digital toilets at its Mountain View offices, co-founder Larry Page disclosed to a gathering of the Churchill Club networking group in San Francisco this month. It goes...

The fundamental business challenge of
our times

The fundamental business challenge of
our times 02/18/2004 09:22 AM
Eli Noam of Columbia Business School has an important Financial Times column pointing out the fundamental business challenge facing the tech sector: commoditization.


Eli is by nature a cynic, so what he has to say is often not pleasant.  But he has the unfortunate habit of being right much of the time, and ahead of the curve virtually all the time.  I've disagreed with some of his conclusions, but I'm with him on the core insight: there is a basic structural disconnect in the economics of information industries, with painful consequences.  We saw it first in telecom, where VOIP is now bringing the issue to a boil, but it's broader than that.

Jeff Jarvis and Ross Mayfield would like to think we can make it up on volume.  I'm as excited as they are about new bottom-up markets and content forms like blogs.  The problem is simply that you can't get there from here.  A hundred Nick Dentons wouldn't pay for one floor of the Conde Nast headquarters building where Jeff works.  (Jeff knows that, and is working both sides of the equation, but Gawker will never be Entertainment Weekly.)  Tere's no scenario that doesn't take a substantial amount of money from the traditional media sector -- and telecom, and IT -- and replace with with a smaller amount of money in distributed alternatives.

One answer, which Noam thinks may be inevitable, is consolidation to the point of monopolization.  Ma Bell held back the tide of commoditization in an industry characterized by high fixed and low variable costs, and Microsoft is doing the same thing in the PC business.  That outcome isn't all bad... but it's far from good.  And, I believe, far from assured.

Is there another answer?  I think there is.  I proposed it four years ago in the Harvard Business Review (and a year earlier in Release 1.0): syndication.  At the time, the idea may have sounded like new economy hype.  In reality, syndication is a roadmap for pulling out of the commoditization death spiral.  It won't be simple and it won't be painless, but syndication will provide a foundation for new growth in the information sector.  Just look at the performance of the two Web-based companies most heavily built on the syndication model: Google and Amazon. Another useful test case for syndication will be the development of the RSS/RDF/Atom ecosystem around Weblogs.

Southern California Business Expert
Honored as one of "The World's Greatest
Business Mentors"

Southern California Business Expert
Honored as one of "The World's Greatest
Business Mentors" 08/09/2004 02:18 AM
Southern California Business Expert Honored as one of "The World's Greatest Business Mentors." Ron LaVine receives prestigious honor; To be featured in forthcoming mentoring book [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004]

Business 2.0 - Magazine Article -
Printable Version - The 101 Dumbest
Moments in Business

Business 2.0 - Magazine Article -
Printable Version - The 101 Dumbest
Moments in Business 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business in 2002

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Business News, India: Microsoft Xbox
emerging as a viable business

Business News, India: Microsoft Xbox
emerging as a viable business 02/01/2005 09:41 PM
Keralanext.com - Sat Jan 29, 09:57 am GMT

Today in Investor's Business Daily stock
analysis and business news

Today in Investor's Business Daily stock
analysis and business news 04/28/2004 10:22 AM
if some in the intelligence community have their way, your online scribblings may soon be regular reads for the FBI, CIA and various other spook groups .. Blog-Tracking May Gain Ground Among U.S. Intelligence Officials .. read full story>

investors.com/editorial/tech.asp?v=4/27
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Working with Business e-Government
project launches Starter Business
website

Working with Business e-Government
project launches Starter Business
website 06/23/2004 01:13 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jun 23 2004 5:46AM GMT

Park N Shop implements Microsoft
Business Solutions Great Plains to
manage retail business

Park N Shop implements Microsoft
Business Solutions Great Plains to
manage retail business 04/03/2005 05:45 AM
AME Info Apr 3 2005 8:22AM GMT

Microsoft Business Solutions aims to be
a $10bn business by 2011

Microsoft Business Solutions aims to be
a $10bn business by 2011 07/15/2004 07:00 AM
Computer Weekly Jul 15 2004 10:16AM GMT

India Business, Microsoft Xbox emerging
as a viable business

India Business, Microsoft Xbox emerging
as a viable business 02/01/2005 09:41 PM
Keralanext.com - Sat Jan 29, 01:54 pm GMT

Oracle retools E-Business Suite,
business intelligence offerings

Oracle retools E-Business Suite,
business intelligence offerings 07/19/2004 05:01 PM
Oracle Corp. hopes to broaden the appeal of its E-Business Suite to specific industries such as industrial manufacturing and health care with a retooled interface and more vertical applications.

Tough times ahead for semiconductor
business

Tough times ahead for semiconductor
business 09/15/2004 07:55 AM
SAN FRANCISCO -- The number of companies building and designing microprocessors is likely to shrink by approximately 40 percent over the next 10 years, analysts from Gartner Inc. predicted at the research firm's Semiconductor Industry Summit conference here in San Francisco Tuesday.

E-training Is Made Easy When Experts
Converge For Online Webinar Focusing On
Inspiring And Educating New Online
Business Owners

E-training Is Made Easy When Experts
Converge For Online Webinar Focusing On
Inspiring And Educating New Online
Business Owners 03/14/2005 04:40 PM
Our Web Developers have assembled a powerful team of experts in various fields including Tax Specialists, Marketing Experts, IT Professionals, Coaching Gurus, Business Accountants, established Network Marketers, as well as a wide variety of other experts. The monthly webinars are a valuable resource for both established businesses and for those considering a business venture. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

Water-less live fish technology wins
business award from Silicon valley
venture capitalists

Water-less live fish technology wins
business award from Silicon valley
venture capitalists 04/16/2005 10:09 AM
Seafood.com Apr 16 2005 2:11PM GMT

Home and Business Communications is
Offering Packet8, a VOIP/Broadband
Telephone Service, for Residential and
Business Users

Home and Business Communications is
Offering Packet8, a VOIP/Broadband
Telephone Service, for Residential and
Business Users 02/01/2005 08:48 PM
Andrew Aldrich owner of Home and Business Communications "We are excited to be offering Packet8, VOIP / Broadband Telephone Service. VOIP / Broadband Telephone services can save the end user up to 90% on their telephone bill. The service will work where ever a broadband connection is available (worldwide). Read more about Packet8 at: www.GoWithPacket8.com [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Telephone Magic Brings Full-Featured
VoIP Business Phone System to Small
Business at Wholesale Prices

Telephone Magic Brings Full-Featured
VoIP Business Phone System to Small
Business at Wholesale Prices 06/17/2005 03:16 PM
The Revolutionary TalkSwitch 48-CVA provides customers with a converged PSTN and VoIP solution at an unprecedented price [PRWEB Jun 16, 2005]

Sony's entertainment business is killing
its electronics business

Sony's entertainment business is killing
its electronics business 05/11/2004 01:58 AM
Derek Slater takes Sony to task over its new music-download service and iPod-like player.

Sony's acquisition of a couple of minor entertainment companies has had untold consequences. It's a poison pill that is killing Sony, one piece at a time.

Back from 1976-1984, Sony was the company that spent hundreds of millions on the defense of its VCR, bringing it all the way to the Supreme Court, arguing that the entertainment industry didn't have any right to its business-model; that if new technology could make the old business irrelevant, that was tough shit, and the movie companies needed to stop pewling and get with the program (they did, and made lots of money, besides).

But ever since Sony "aquired" Columbia, it's been acting like its electronics business was a minor business unit that couldn't afford to disrupt its precious entertainment arm (despite the fact that the entertainment arm's contributions to Sony's bottom line are minimal when compared to the gadget biz). When the first MP3 players appeared in the market, from little companies like Creative Labs, Sony brought out proprietary devices that played stupid formats like RealAudio and OpenAG, which no one wanted to hear. On the other hand, these formats did come with use-restrictions that kept Sony's music execs from getting too anxious and sad.

The result was that Creative Labs, a little outfit in Singapore, ate Sony's lunch, followed by a bunch of late diners to the table, including a bunch of no-name Korean companies, and most recently, Apple. Sony, who invented the walkman and made billions off of it, has now become an irrelevant player in the personal stereo market, with a market share that's barely a blip on the chart.

And Sony -- a company legendary for tis ability to refine its designs to capitalize on lessons learned in the market -- keeps on repeating the same mistakes, as Derek points out:

Apparently, Sony's hard drive player cannot play MP3s, WMA and (of course) Apple FairPlay-locked AAC. It only plays the Sony's proprietary ATRAC3 format; if it's like Sony's MiniDisc players, forcing consumers to convert to ATRAC3 also forces them to accept certain DRM restrictions. In related news, the Washington Post and New York Times both deemed Connect embarassing, noting its poor interface, proprietary DRM format and codec, copying restrictions ... too many to count.

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Harvard Business School Business
Research Guides

Harvard Business School Business
Research Guides 12/19/2004 03:25 PM
Harvard Business School Baker Library Business Research Guides
http://www.library.hbs.edu/g uides/

Baker Library produces guides to help in the use of resources at Baker and beyond for business and career research. The list below includes guides to general business topics, information on specific industries and specific course support projects that may be helpful in other contexts. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.

Business Lobby to Get Behind Judicial
Bids (Los Angeles Times)

Business Lobby to Get Behind Judicial
Bids (Los Angeles Times) 01/06/2005 06:53 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — A powerful business lobby is preparing a multimillion-dollar campaign to aid the White House in its quest to win approval for conservative judges, a move that could transform the ideological battles over the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court.

Spider Strategies Launches New Business
School Partnership Program -
Participating Business Schools to
Receive Free Copy of Scoreboard®

Spider Strategies Launches New Business
School Partnership Program -
Participating Business Schools to
Receive Free Copy of Scoreboard® 04/06/2005 02:38 AM
Spider Strategies®, Inc., announced today it is providing participating universities and business schools a free copy of its Balanced Scorecard software - Scoreboard® - for use in both classrooms and external learning environments. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

CompAmerica Announces 20% off all PCs,
Laptops, Servers, Software and Services
at its new PC-Giants.com
Business-to-Business Computer Shopping
Portal for the Summer of 2005

CompAmerica Announces 20% off all PCs,
Laptops, Servers, Software and Services
at its new PC-Giants.com
Business-to-Business Computer Shopping
Portal for the Summer of 2005 06/05/2005 11:14 PM
CompAmerica indicated that its ultra-sophisticated new electronic computer products and parts-buying store/portal, could save anyone as much as 37% off the usual store pricing on products from 500 brand names, many of which aren’t available at stores like CompUSA, PC Warehouse, other online stores, or Radio Shack. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2005]

Other News: Jobs is Sunday Times
Business Person of 2004

Other News: Jobs is Sunday Times
Business Person of 2004 12/27/2004 03:15 AM
Steve Jobs was named the Sunday Times Business Person of 2004 over Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google and various other moneymakers.

The New York Times > Business > Your
Money > Oh, Yeah, He Also Sells
Computers

The New York Times > Business > Your
Money > Oh, Yeah, He Also Sells
Computers 04/27/2004 03:01 AM
NYT profile of Steve Jobs and Apple's new direction: the digital lifestyle

nytimes.com/2004/04/25/business/yourmoney/25jobs.html
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"Jobs named 'Sunday Times Business
Person of 2004'"

"Jobs named 'Sunday Times Business
Person of 2004'" 12/28/2004 10:49 AM

Jobs named Sunday Times Business Person
of 2004

Jobs named Sunday Times Business Person
of 2004 01/03/2005 01:44 AM
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the Sunday Times Business Person of the year...

Schwarzenegger Has Long To-Do List to
Boost Business (Los Angeles Times)

Schwarzenegger Has Long To-Do List to
Boost Business (Los Angeles Times) 04/20/2004 04:43 AM
Los Angeles Times - After signing a massive workers' compensation insurance overhaul bill Monday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now is turning his persuasive powers to the next steps he deems necessary to bring clear skies to California's business climate.

Jobs named The Sunday Times Business
Person of 2004

Jobs named The Sunday Times Business
Person of 2004 12/27/2004 01:02 PM
Apple and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs has been named The Sunday Times Business Person of 2004. His "power in the entertainment industry made him a key player in another of the biggest business stories of the year" after the success of Apple's iPods and Pixar's latest film, The Incredibles, at the box-office this holiday season. Among other contenders' achievements, none "had the consumer and cultural appeal of the iPod [and] in the end, there could be only one winner, and it had to be Jobs."

The New York Times > Business > She
Asserts a 'Small' Matter Was 'Blown Out
of Proportion'

The New York Times > Business > She
Asserts a 'Small' Matter Was 'Blown Out
of Proportion' 07/17/2004 07:52 AM
Martha's life just wrote a second act .. Martha Stewart Sentenced .. learns her fate .. sentenced

nytimes.com/2004/07/16/business/16CND-MART.html?hp
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