Start a Laser Tag Business
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Business Idea Center: Laser Tag
Laser Tag Startup Costs: $10,000 – $50,000 Franchises Available? No Online Operation? No Business Overview Indoor laser tag is quickly becoming as popular as paint ball games, and starting a laser tag recreation center may…
How to Start a Laser Tag Business
By Shanika Chapman Laser tag is a fun, family-friendly recreational activity popular among youth and adults for team-building events, birthdays, youth group events and more. Compete with other fun centers in your area by designing…
Pepper spray clears path to Walmart specials
What is it about Walmart stores and Black Friday? Reports of injuries, fights and at least one shooting came in from across the country this year, with one California customer even fending off other shoppers…
Shoppers Are Staying Home and Logging On This Season
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER As stores lure shoppers with Black Friday deals as early as Thanksgiving Day, many shoppers are planning to stay on their couches and shop online. Online sales will increase 15 percent…
Consultants in the Cloud
By QUENTIN HARDY Earlier this week we published an article about Google Apps, and Google’s struggle to displace Microsoft Office and Sharepoint inside large corporations. While Google has worked without a large consulting partner, it…
Siri Answers Questions From Readers
By SAM GROBART On Thursday, we asked readers to submit questions for Siri, Apple’s new virtual personal assistant in the iPhone 4S. Below are some of Siri’s most entertaining answers. We threw in some questions…
Using Apple’s Find My Mac Feature
By RIVA RICHMOND The disappearance of a device is far and away the most serious digital security and privacy risk that owners of Apple laptops and mobile devices face. With viruses and other malware making…
Smartphone Apps Send Holiday Greetings
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Does the idea of buying holiday cards, gathering the mailing addresses for friends and family, writing personal notes by hand, buying stamps, addressing envelopes and carting them to the post office…
A Look at Apple’s Spot-the-Shopper Technology
By BRIAN X. CHEN A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technology Apple is using to speed purchases. A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated…
Voice Messaging Services Aimed at the Masses
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP SINGAPORE — Amitabh Bachchan, one of Bollywood’s biggest movie stars, writes a blog and is widely followed on social media. The Big B, as he is affectionately called, started blogging in 2008…
Pushing On-the-Go Gadgets, Google Makes Its Pitch in Mobile
By STUART ELLIOTT THE song “Blues in the Night” includes a line that begins, “From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe.” Now, marketers are studying the results of a campaign that extends from…
What’s in a Name? Ask Google
By ALLEN SALKIN KALIA is a stripper name, but Kaleya is not, her parents-to-be concluded. No offense to the Kalias of the world, but Lecia and Thor Kaslofsky decided this two years ago, after conducting…
AT&T Merger With T-Mobile Faces Setbacks
By EDWARD WYATT and JENNA WORTHAM WASHINGTON — AT&T and T-Mobile USA edged closer to scrapping their proposed merger, saying on Thursday that they had withdrawn their application to the Federal Communications Commission to join…
Apple Bourbon Bundt Cake
2 sticks unsalted butter (226 grams), at room temperature, plus more to grease pan 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (315 grams), plus more to dust the pan 3 tablespoons (30 grams) plus 1/2 cup (80…
Quietly, Google Puts History Online
By ERIC PFANNER PARIS — When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When…
Mixed Results as Google Enters Microsoft’s Turf
By QUENTIN HARDY MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Michael O’Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications, would prefer not to have the employees of the Milwaukee media company use Microsoft’s Office software any more….
Retailers Enliven Catalog Offerings Through Apps
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER When you browse Anthropologie’s stores, you feel as if you’re wandering through an artsy home, where there are sure to be closets full of eclectic outfits, bedrooms with bohemian quilts and…
Cameras Are Small, Quality Is Big
By DAVID POGUE If you’re an electronics fan, you have plenty to be grateful for at this year’s Thanksgiving dinner: The dawn of easy-to-use touch-screen gadgets. A sensible C.E.O. at Hewlett-Packard. Angry Birds. And if…
Patent Office Highlights Jobs’s Innovations
By BRIAN X. CHEN The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late Steve Jobs. Each iPhone model displays…
As Investors Flee Groupon, Outlook for I.P.O.’s Darkens
BY EVELYN M. RUSLI Unable to break a three-day slide, shares of Groupon tumbled again on Wednesday, as more investors dumped shares. For the first time since it went public earlier this month, Groupon broke…
With Apps, Wealth Management Goes Mobile
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP As stock markets continue on their roller-coaster ride, even investors who profess to be buy-and-hold types have become eager users of mobile technology that allows them to track their portfolios almost on…
Microsoft Signs Nondisclosure Agreement With Yahoo
BY MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED Microsoft is officially kicking the tires at Yahoo again, three years after it failed to buy control of the company. The software giant has signed a confidentiality agreement with Yahoo,…
Foreclosure Oviedo Florida – Real Estate Short Sales
Foreclosure Oviedo Florida FORECLOSURE OVIEDO FLORIDA, PREFORECLOSURES, FORECLOSURE AUCTIONS AND REAL ESTATE SHORT SALES. Here are all Oviedo, Florida foreclosure listings available. Foreclosed homes for sale in Oviedo can save you up to 50 percent or…
Foreclosure Oviedo Homes – Avoiding Foreclosure in Oviedo Florida
Avoiding Foreclosure in Oviedo Florida The Obama Administration has implemented a number of programs to assist homeowners who are at risk of foreclosure and otherwise struggling with their monthly mortgage payments. The majority of these…
Foreclosure Oviedo Florida Homes – Short Sale Opportunities
Foreclosure is the legal process by which a mortgage lender (mortgagee), or other lien holder, obtains a termination of a mortgage borrower (mortgagor)’s equitable right of redemption, either by court order or by operation of…
Steve Jobs Passes Away (1955-2011)
Steven Paul Jobs, 56, died earlier today at his home with his family. The co-founder and, until last August, the CEO of Apple, Inc., was the most celebrated person in technology and business on the…
Costco Urges Stricter Safety Measures on Cantaloupes
By WILLIAM NEUMAN As the death toll rose this week in a devastating listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes, a national food retailer said that cantaloupe farmers and shippers must confront a history of food safety problems and…
Tech Blogger to Invest in Start-Ups
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO — Michael Arrington, whose influentialTechCrunch blog covers Silicon Valley, has started a venture capitalfund to invest in start-ups, including some that he and his staff write about. The $20 million CrunchFund is…
Tumblr Lands $85 Million in Funding
By JENNA WORTHAM Over the past few years, Tumblr, a microblogging service, has steadily built a community of fans and users who like the site’s combination of social networking features and simple blogging tools that…
Why Facebook Works for All, Twitter for Some
By NICK BILTON It finally makes sense to me. On Friday evening I was in Los Angeles visiting my sister. We were at a restaurant, chatting away about life, when my sister ebulliently announced that she wanted to “Tweet about…
Banks Adding Debit Card Fees
By ANN CARRNS Starting Saturday, big banks must comply with a new regulation that caps the fees they can charge merchants for processing debit card purchases. But some consumers are already seeing the impact of the…
Netflix Secures Streaming Deal With DreamWorks
By BROOKS BARNES and BRIAN STELTER LOS ANGELES — DreamWorks Animation, the company behind successful movie franchises like “Madagascar” and “Shrek,” said it had completed a deal to pump its films and television specials through Netflix, replacing a less…
Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :)
By BENEDICT CAREY However grumpy people are when they wake up, and whether they stumble to their feet in Madrid, Mexico City or Minnetonka, Minn., they tend to brighten by breakfast time and feel their moods…
Amazon’s Tablet Leads to Its Store
By JENNA WORTHAM and DAVID STREITFELD With a glossy 7-inch color touch screen and a dual-core processor, the Kindle Fire, a new mobile device introduced by Amazon on Wednesday, sure looks like a tablet, and one not so…
How Exercise Can Strengthen the Brain
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Can exercise make the brain more fit? That absorbing question inspired a new study at the University of South Carolina during which scientists assembled mice and assigned half to run for an hour…
CNET looks at current and upcoming tablets
By: Eric Franklin The tablet market is like that kid in school who, at first, no one really noticed. Then, a year later he starts the school year a foot taller, with a new wardrobe,…
Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest…
Really? The Claim: To Prevent Migraines, Drink More Water
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS For migraine sufferers, summer can be a perilous time of year. Oppressive heat and spikes in temperature have long been thought to precipitate attacks in people prone to chronic headaches….
Schools Restore Fresh Cooking to the Cafeteria
By KIRK JOHNSON GREELEY, Colo. — The idea of making school lunches better and healthier has gathered steam in many parts of the nation in recent years, but not equally for every child. Schools with…
Buffalo Grove weighs trampoline park safety
Buffalo Grove is asking the operator of a proposed trampoline club to address safety concerns as it weighs whether to approve the park owner’s application for a special-use permit, officials said. Xtreme Trampolines, which already…
Avenged Sevenfold Bump Eminem From Billboard #1
Last week, we wondered how long Eminem’s Recovery could hold on to the pole position on the Billboard 200, predicting that it might run the board until Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream drops on August 24….
What is a Franchise Agreement?
The franchise agreement is the written contract between the franchisor and franchisee. It is the fundamental legal document upon which the franchisor-franchisee relationship is based. The franchise agreement details the conditions that both the franchisee…
Reimagining Auto Retail for Electric Cars
For independent electric car companies, it’s so long, automobile row. Some electric vehicle manufacturers have jettisoned the old model of franchise auto dealerships in an effort to change not only how we drive, but also…
Microsoft Takes to Cloud to Ward Off Competition
People like Tom Conophy are stirring anxiety — and action — in Microsoft’s executive offices these days. Mr. Conophy, the chief information officer of the InterContinental Hotels Group, decided earlier this year to begin moving…
Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook
Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest effort yet. On Tuesday,…
Motorola Xoom review
As we put rubber to road on our Motorola Xoom review, it’s important to note that it was only a matter of time before the Android army delivered a proper iPad competitor. Moto’s partnership with…
No Known Terror Threat Looming Over July 4 Holiday, U.S. Officials Say
WASHINGTON — New evidence uncovered from Usama bin Laden’s compound shows that the terror leader was focused on plotting attacks to coincide with symbolic dates, like the Fourth of July, but intelligence officials told Fox…
2012 Transformers Special Edition Camaro Coupe Revealed
With the third Transformers film hitting theaters this week, it’s no surprise that Chevrolet would release a 2012 Transformers Special Edition Camaro Coupe to mark the release of Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. As astute…
Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ defines summer moviemaking
With “Transformers,” the third time is apparently the charm. Not that there’s much that’s actually charming about “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” It is the same sort of deafening mayhem celebration as its two absolutely…