Time for some interesting business trivia. Globally, there are a record 946 billionaires, up from 793 last year. Two-thirds of last year’s billionaires are richer. Only 17% are poorer from their last standing. With 36 billionaires, India has overtaken [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6433367.…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will receive a $1 annual salary for 2007. Yahoo! chairman and CEO Terry Semel is also getting paid an annual salary of just $1, as is Apple CEO Steve Jobs. CNN money reports [http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/…
The 1913 Webster defines “cheating” [http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=cheating] as: > To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. However, it’s certainly not cheating if you get a really good bargain. Such as the one being offered…
There are numerous articles on how to go about earning revenue from your web site or blog. There are several online services and programs that let you monetize from your web site or blog, but for a self-starter it is often hard to make the right choice. So I’ve…
100 Tips to Cut Small Business Overhead and Reach Profitability [http://www.debtconsolidationlowdown.com/2007/02/getting_to_blac.html]…
I must confess, the quality of consumer broadband here in India is not at all comparable to global standards. With a massive IT, BPO and backoffice technology infrastructure; a household consumer would expect to have a decent internet connectivity. But the average speed-to-cost ratio is unacceptable. Speedtest.net [http://speedtest.…
It’s getting crowded on the Web 2.0 frontier, but there are still some startups that truly stand out. Business 2.0 Magazine identifies the ones most likely to strike gold in 2007. Checkout these 25 startups [http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0702/gallery.nextnet.biz2/]. For…
Kaizen [http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/jan/23kai.htm] is an activity model of carrying out small improvements in large numbers with total employee involvement, on a continuous basis.…