I have a lot of “friends” at MySpace, Facebook, everywhere. I am a happy guy having so many friends. I am so happy with it, especially when my friends send me some beautiful images with links all around, and I press them and they take me to different places where I can buy my friends’ products. Oh, Gosh how I love to help my friends to earn some money, really do! They must be a truly friends sending me these nice little images all the time. My friends are great, aren’t they? And they are so polite, they don’t even try to tell me that they are selling something, isn’t that cool?
I felted so embarrassed, so I decide it to do the same, to be a nice guy, to get back to them somehow, like a truly gentleman, but I didn’t knew how to do that. So I looked f
While a new report from the U.S. Department of Labor shows a slight decline in the nation’s unemployment rate from 10 percent to 9.7 percent, financial analyst Jason Schenker is warning that it’s too soon to applaud the lower unemployment rate.
“The truth is the unemployment rate fell because a number of people dropped off the unemployment roles,” said Schenker, president of Prestige Economics LLC in Austin.
In reality, a number of people have left the labor market altogether, which means they are no longer calculated into the nation’s unemployment rate. In addition, job losses were deeper in prior months, according to the latest revisions to the Labor Department data, Schenker said.
“This is not a good report,” Schenker said. “The unemploy
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Entrepreneurs in search of investment capital walk a financial tightwire.
In traditional angel investment or venture capital circles, the give-and-take is relatively clear: The entrepreneur cedes equity in exchange for much-needed capital. That can still prove a bitter pill for some small business owners, frustrated by the valuation debate or worried about losing control of their dream.
That’s why entrepreneurs should take note of an investment model beginning to pick up steam: Royalty based financing.
It’s actually a decades-old concept that’s been adapted to a more modern venture capital environment. And m
Business WeekThe European aircraft maker, Airbus, seems to hold the long-term edge in China, whose ire over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan won’t help Boeing
The last thing Boeing needs now is a new China problem. Over the next two decades, Boeing (BA) expects China to spend $400 billion to purchase 3,770 planes from manufacturers, making China second in size only to the combined market of the U.S. and Canada. With airlines in other markets struggling—and Boeing still trying to recover from its much-delayed Dreamliner 787 project—the U.S. manufacturer could use a Chinese boost. One
CORPUS CHRISTI A Corpus Christi couple on Friday filed a lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp. citing a collision the family blames on their car’s accelerator. The petition, filed in Corpus Christi federal court, seeks class-action status.
Sylvia R. and Albert A. Peña filed the lawsuit on behalf of themselves and others who might have suffered as a result of accelerator issues found in some the Japanese maker’s vehicles. Zoe Zeigler, a Toyota spokeswoman, said the company does not comment on pending litigation.
Albert Peña said he was driving his 2008 Toyota Avalon when the vehicle accelerated unexpectedly at a stop sign, causing a collision, according to court documents. Most r
Southwest Airlines Co. said Friday it’s ready to move beyond the testing phase of its Wi-Fi service.
The airline has signed an agreement with Row 44 to install Wi-Fi systems on its entire fleet of aircraft.
Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) is scheduled to begin installing the equipment in the second quarter of 2010. It will do so on about 15 aircraft per month, with the goal of fitting Southwest’s entire fleet of 540 plans with Wi-Fi service by early 2012.