Blogs
What's the word! Read the blogs of what the leaders of small businesses to large corporations has to say about business, finances, technology, and marketing in 2010.
Cut Small Business Costs
Tricialee Riley cut her teeth in the business world managing retail operations for MAC Cosmetics during the years when the company grew from a small house brand to a beauty giant. While with MAC, she opened several stores, managed locations, and learned the importance of staying under budget...
Source: Cut Small Business Costs | Black Enterprise
Tyra Banks Ending Talk Show
Super model-turned-entrepreneur Tyra Banks has announced that the current and fifth season of "The Tyra Banks Show" will be the last. She cites wanting to expand her brand and production company as the reason for ending the show. Just a few months ago in November, media queen...
Source: Tyra Banks Ending Talk Show | Black Enterprise
Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?
Expanding a business is a smart move, but some worry that it could potentially kill a company...
Source: Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death? | Inc.com
First USB 3.0 Tests: Western Digital’s My Book Sails Through
The Western Digital My Book 3.0 desktop external drive will be one of the first to market with the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface...
Source: Western Digital’s My Book | PC World
How to Choose a Financial Planner
Four years ago, Eddie and Eugenia Russell of Williamsburg, Virginia, found themselves with a little extra cash from their real estate investments...
Source: How to Choose a Financial Planner | Black Enterprise
How to Cut Costs With Green IT
The Achilles' heel of the environmental movement is that all too often, the green option is the more expensive option. The beauty of green IT, a collective term used to describe the myriad practices aimed at lowering the environmental impact of a company's IT infrastructure...
Source: How to Cut Costs With Green IT | Inc.com
iPhone Apps You Won't Find on iTunes
In a long-running series of TV commercials for Apple's popular iPhone, a genial voice proclaims, "There's an app for just about anything." Well, not anything. "The iPhone would be a great market for us," says Bhaskar Roy, "but Apple won't let us do live video yet." Roy is co-founder of Qik, a Redwood City, California, company that makes an app (also called Qik) that lets people broadcast live video on the Internet using their cell phones...
Source: iPhone Apps You Won't Find on iTunes | Inc.com
Managing: Planning Now for an Economic Rebound
Everything seemed to be falling into place for Dominic Coryell. Garment Valet, Coryell's laundry and dry-cleaning delivery service, had close to $1 million in sales and 1,900 customers in the Boston area. And he had big plans to roll out a nationwide network of franchises and chains. But when the credit market began drying up and his bank -- which supplies Garment Valet with a $100,000 line of credit...
Source: Managing: Planning Now for an Economic Rebound | Inc.com
Say Buh-Bye to Your Bank?
If you’re thinking about giving your bank the old heave-ho, joining a credit union may be the right move for you. Last week, credit card holders sounded off on card issuers about unfair rate hikes and slashed lines of credit. With all that’s going on in the banking industry, credit unions are looking even more attractive....
Source: Say Buh-Bye to Your Bank? | Black Enterprise
3D Comes Home
With all of the talk about 3D here at the Consumer Electronics Show, it's important to underscore that the 3D being shown here is not akin to the 3D you'd get with anaglyphic red-and-green glasses folded up into a Cracker Jack box. What's being shown as the future of 3D is frankly all the more impressive -- in some cases, surprisingly so, when done well -- and it has the potential to...
Source: 3D Comes Home | PC World
Skype to Offer HD Video Calling
Skype's voice and video calling technology will be embedded in upcoming high-definition televisions with Internet capabilities. Skype said Tuesday that its Internet phone service will be included in Panasonic's 2010 VIERA CAST-enabled HD TVs and LG's new LCD and plasma HD TVs with NetCast Entertainment Access. The televisions are expected to be available in the middle of the year...
Source: Skype to Offer HD Video Calling | ABC News
