Ways to build retirement security
Achieve financial security over a retirement that could last 20 years or more. By Mark Miller Work in retirement? It might sound like a contradiction in terms, but we’re looking for ways to achieve financial…
Money & Finance
What to Ask a Prospective Wealth Manager
By JOHN F. WASIK What do you do when your financial adviser becomes damaged goods? That’s surely on the minds of thousands of clients of firms like UBS Financial Services, which is embroiled in a…
Personal Finance 101
By Jeremy Vohwinkle Personal finance covers a wide variety of money topics including budgeting, expenses, debt, saving, retirement and insurance among others. Understanding how each of these topics work together and affect each other is…
Google TV Honeycomb Update Rolling Out to Logitech Revue
Logitech said Wednesday that its Google TV device, the Logitech Revue, will be upgraded to Honeycomb this week, providing access to the Android Market. Android 3.1 will be delivered via a software update, Ashish Arora,…
Google TV will Dominate, Android Will Win Devs in 2012
Google finally upgrades When Google TV first came out we had high hopes that Google Inc. (GOOG) would deliver a dynamic product like Android. Instead, the project imploded leading one partner to ditch the fledgling…
REDLINE SPORTS comes to South Florida
REDLINE SPORTS comes to Fort Lauderdale in January 2013 REDLINE SPORTS REDLINE SPORTS Family Entertainment Centers, Fun Centers, Amusement Parks and Children’s Entertainment Centers – the resources you are looking for to design, build, open…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Social Climbers: How Franchises Are Using Social Networking
Franchises are embracing the possibilities of social media platforms like Facebook to extend their brands. Whoever said there’s no such thing as a free lunch obviously never visited the Facebook page of Einstein Bros. Bagels….
10 Apps That Make Magic on Your iPad
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 8, 2010 When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad and referred to it as a magical device, lots of people snickered. Silly people. Most iPad owners will tell you that it…
The 10 Best BlackBerry Apps
By BOB TEDESCHI BlackBerry owners aren’t voracious app users. They can’t be. With only about 15,000 (often uninspired) apps to choose from in BlackBerry’s App World, the selection simply isn’t deep or broad enough to…
Top 10 Android Apps
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: December 1, 2010 A few weeks ago, I compiled a list of essential iPhone apps for people who are too busy to sift through the roughly 300,000 titles in the App…
Top 10 Must-Have Apps for the iPhone, and Some Runners-Up
By BOB TEDESCHI Published: November 10, 2010 I’m always surprised when I come across people who have yet to fill their iPhone with apps. The most often cited excuse? Not enough time to sift through…
With New Software, Headsets Are Outsmarting Phones
By ANNE EISENBERG Published: January 15, 2011 HEADSETS are staples for call-center workers, travel agents and many other people who have to talk frequently on the phone. With a headset to listen and speak through,…
Verizon Deal May Expose iPhone Flaws
By JOE NOCERA January 14, 2011 With this week’s announcement that Verizon Wireless is going to begin selling the iPhone — something its customers have been panting for ever since AT&T got that first, exclusive…
CNBC Documentary to Include BMM
On Wednesday, December 15th CNBC will air an hour long program, “Behind the Counter: The Untold Story of Franchising.” I can’t recall any television program devoting this much time to the franchise industry. The documentary…
The UFOC is Now Called Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD)
The documentation that is provided by the franchisor to a potential franchisee prior to the completion of the sale is being replaced by a new document not only with a different name but also with…
Franchise Trade Secrets
Written by Garth Snider on October 22nd, 2010 There has been a lot of ink spilled recently about the plight of the small businessman in the recession. In particular, there has been a great deal of…
IFA Submits Letter to CNBC for Upcoming Franchising Industry Documentary
December 2, 2010 Darren Rovell CNBC 900 Sylvan Avenue Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632 Dear Darren: Thank you for the time you have recently spent with members of my staff to discuss your upcoming CNBC…
A Cautionary Tale About the Franchise Business
By: Jessica Golden Laurie Valadez spent years in corporate finance but had always been a passionate dog owner and dreamed of starting her own dog business. For more than two years she researched various dog-oriented…
Assessing Franchising Opportunities
By KERMIT PATTISON Jim Denney faced a common choice: buy a franchise or start an independent company? He was an experienced business owner in Scotia, N.Y., near Albany, who had spent a year investigating a…
Tight Credit Is Turning Franchisers Into Lenders
By KERMIT PATTISON When Remi Tessier recently decided to open a pizza franchise, he got a big surprise: it was not going to be easy to get financing from a bank. Mr. Tessier had owned…
Marijuana Web Names Snapped Up, in Case of Legalization
By MALIA WOLLAN SAN FRANCISCO — It was just about a year ago that Kevin Faler came up with his get-rich-quick marijuana scheme. No, he does not plan to sell the drug, even if Californians…
Verizon Wireless to offer $15 data plan
(Reuters) – Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile operator, will start offering a lower priced mobile data service with limited downloads on October 28, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move by…
Verizon to sell iPads, offer data plans
By Reuters Verizon Wireless will join rival carrier AT&T in selling Apple Inc’s iPad later this month, showing it may move closer to disrupting the tight relationship between the device maker and AT&T. All three…
Will Apple’s Culture Hurt the iPhone?
By MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO — If you want a smartphone powered by Google’s Android software, you could get Motorola’s Droid 2 or its cousin, the Droid X. Then there is the Droid Incredible from HTC, the Fascinate…
10 Plus – Business Trends That Are Thriving Even In This Economy
1) Economic Turmoil – It’s not the $700 billion bank bailout. And no, it’s not the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The real economic stimulus is … wait for it ……
The 20 Best Job Search Web Sites
By: Sean Ludwig Unemployment numbers are sky high, but there is a silver lining: there are lots of great online resources to help job seekers find work. As we all know by now, unemployment numbers…
2010 Fastest-Growing Franchise Rankings
We’ve spent 31 years perfecting Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500®, the world’s first, best and most comprehensive franchise ranking based on objective, quantifiable measures of franchise success. So if you’re looking for an opportunity to be in…
The Psychology of Stress
You’ve managed to keep your business afloat, but how are you managing the stress? By Tiffany Meyers In the economic tailspin of the late 2000s, loss is part of life. Workers are losing their jobs,…
Franchise Your Business
Advantages of Franchising Your Business While franchising provides franchisees with a proven system and the support of a much larger organization, the advantages to the franchisor are even more significant. Capital: Since franchisees use their…
Running a Successful Family Business From Home
Find out how these 5 families run their companies without starting World War III. By Rich Mintzer Home-based businesses and family-operated businesses each have their own minefields of potential problems, but the one pitfall they…
10 Do’s and Don’ts for Facebook Pages
Use these tips to make the most of your Facebook marketing efforts. By Scott Gerber Facebook may have 500 million users, but having an outpost on the social-media site won’t necessarily increase sales or referrals…
Short Attention Spans for Web Videos
By ALEX MINDLIN After watching an online video for a full minute, 44.1 percent of viewers will have clicked away, according to Visible Measures. But an outsize slice of that loss occurs in the first…
Surplus Auctions Exposed: Is 95% Off Retail Price Possible?
Surplus auction websites are a new phenomenon that is quickly spreading through North America and Europe (like you have probably already seen). They are all over the internet in blogs and success stories of people…
Google Inc.
Founded in 1998, Google runs the world’s most popular Internet search engine. It’s a position that has earned Google huge profits and given it outsize influence over the online world. But Google’s ambition far exceeds…
The Social Network (2010) – Movie Review
By MANOHLA DARGIS Millions of Friends, but Not Very Popular What makes Mark Zuckerberg run? In “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s fleet, weirdly funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized look at the man behind the social-media…
Verizon Wireless to Pay Up to $90 Million in Refunds
By EDWARD WYATT WASHINGTON – Verizon Wireless said Sunday it will pay up to $90 million in refunds to 15 million cell phone customers who were wrongly charged for data sessions or Internet use, one…