New York Times:
Research indicates that the appeal of extended warranties can depend on buyers’ emotional state — and ability to assess risk.
. (Read More)
Kotaku:
While not directly addressing Chet Faliszek's slap at PlayStation 3, the Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford - no stranger to stirring s—t with Valve - has taken a poke at the Left 4 Dead developer's posture toward Sony. Pitchford, s (Read More)
SF Gate:
In less than a week, unionized workers at two Arizona grocery store chains may be walking a picket line instead of stocking shelves and cutting meat. Fry's Food Stores has begun advertising for thousands of temporary workers (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
from blog:
Author : Ellie GantIn the last year or so the world economy has suffered a serious downturn and this has caused many financial and work related problems for a vast number of people The increase in unemployment and personal d (Read More)
Channel NewsAsia Business News:
ST ANDREWS, Scotland : The International Monetary Fund on Saturday said emergency stimulus measures must remain to avoid endangering a "nascent" economic recovery, as the G20 agreed here to maintain support. (Read More)
Channel NewsAsia Business News:
SEOUL : Tens of thousands of workers held a demonstration here Saturday to protest against a government plan they say is aimed at weakening unionism, witnesses said. (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber pirate — “While the bust led to the (Read More)
CrunchBoard Jobs:
Lead Start-up Web Developer for Eco-Biz Project (BlueMap Inc.) - San Francisco BlueMap Inc. seeking Senior Web Developer to build eco-biz website. Contract to Hire. BlueMap (www.bluemapinc.com) is a start-up sustainability (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and (Read More)
Submitted by limey59
from blog:
It’s a visual celebration of values strategically painted on the business end of the working man’s chariot. Not always beautiful, but undeniably awesome.To qualify as a true mexican tailgate mural, the mural must be airbru (Read More)
Submitted by onlinePR
from blog:
I attended the social media awards last night near Salt Lake City Utah. It was a fabulous event and many of my favorite people were there. I was so excited when Nate (@BigBags) won. He was pretty blase about it though (just k (Read More)
Jalopnik:
Seeing a VW Fastback in action on a racetrack reminded me of how cool the Volkswagen Type 3 was. The Fastbacks and Squarebacks were never as common as the Beetles, but you'd see them. Here's one that isn't coming back. Speak (Read More)
Submitted by Marianne_McEachern
from blog:
Very often a Internet home business will fail shortly after it is launched. With a little research you will find that around 95% home business owners will loose money and give up within their first year. So why do so many In (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
I'm in the market for a new MP3 player -- my second-gen iPod Nano is finally dead, and I don't want to buy another iPod, or any other player with DRM built in. I figure that any company that wants to devote its engineers to f (Read More)
Business on HuffingtonPost.com:
Business mistake #1: Don't have a strategic business plan. I learned this the hard way when I was dipping my toes into the entrepreneurial pond for the very first time. Now that it is almost 2010, the economy is showing at (Read More)
Top 10 Business News Stories:
Every now and then I’ll open my e-mail to find a personal note from an author who is a regular reader of one of my blogs or the book reviews I do here on Small Business Trends.This is how I came across “Leap How 3 S (Read More)
Top 10 Business Tech:
Last week we reported on Google’s new music discovery features. The Google music search endeavor is partnership between Google MySpace Lala and several others to make music search and discovery a primary feature of the G (Read More)