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…
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…
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…
Four tips for those of you who aren’t Web geeks, starting with the basics. By Dan Briody For all of you who aren’t Web geeks, let’s start with some blogging basics — and then talk…
By Sue Zeidler (Reuters) – Netflix Inc on Wednesday said it reached a deal to rent Sony movies 28 days after they go on sale, while NCR, which rents DVDs at nearly 7,000 Blockbuster kiosks,…
By Rob Pegoraro A tiny $99 box can connect your TV to a wealth of Internet-delivered TV shows, movies, pictures, podcasts and music. But which $99 box should you get? In one corner, there’s Apple’s…
by Kent German Choosing a cell phone carrier isn’t easy. Should your choice come down to network coverage, or should you decide based on the selection of phones? Or perhaps the level of customer service…
By: Chloe Albanesius Is a third-party case scratching up or even cracking your iPhone 4? Tech blog gdgt reported Thursday that some slide-on, third-party cases can cause scratches or cracking on the iPhone 4, so…
Verizon brings the iPhone 4 to market at a time when AT&T already has the iPhone 4 on the market. It’s good news for those Verizon customers who have always had interest in the iPhone…
By LESLEY ALDERMAN THE last few years have not been easy for Dean McCrea. In 2007, Mr. McCrea, 55, lost his wife of nearly 30 years. Then last November the company he worked for folded,…
By TARA PARKER-POPE In today’s Patient Money column, Lesley Alderman writes about the various ways parents can find health coverage for their children, even if they think they can’t afford it. Children in families with…
By FRANK RICH “THE Social Network,” you’re understandably sick of hearing, is a brilliant movie about the Harvard upstart Mark Zuckerberg and the messy birth of his fabulous start-up, Facebook, circa 2004. From the noisy…
By ADAM BRYANT This interview with Paul Maritz, , president and C.E.O. of the software firm VMware, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What are some important leadership lessons for you? A. I’ve…
By DEBBIE LEE THE assault began in early September. That’s when my 60-year-old mother, an avid gardener, began laying mulch under the shrubs at her home in Westchester. She had her shovel in hand when…
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS The prospect of ingesting pesticides and other contaminants can make supermarket produce seem less than appetizing. Buying organic lowers the risk, but is no guarantee against food-borne pathogens. Scientists have…
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sought federal permission on Wednesday to bar New York City’s 1.7 million recipients of food stamps from using them to buy soda or other sugared drinks. The request,…
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Several years ago, I learned that a physician in a town not too far from where I was practicing had committed suicide. Neither I nor my hospital colleagues knew him,…
By KIRK JOHNSON DENVER — It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees? Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the…
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…
By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF SAN FRANCISCO — Mobile phone maps have guided people through streets and alleys around the globe. But when those people step into a sprawling building, they can get lost. Inside, people…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and TANZINA VEGA In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison Avenue at Advertising Week, the annual industry conference, and promoted Dick Costolo, who has…
By TANZINA VEGA Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen…
By JOHN MARKOFF MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on the roof….
No crowds. No turnstiles. Imagine a place where you and your family can touch and swim with dolphins, wade with mysterious rays, snorkel among thousands of exotic fish, hand-feed tropical birds in a free-flight aviary…
Animals in need and endangered species around the world will benefit from more than $1 million in grants awarded by the non-profit SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund. Since its creation seven years ago, the…
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…
(MONEY Magazine) — Remember when getting a free travel upgrade was as easy as walking up to the counter with your biggest smile? Now that airlines have pared back flights, and rental car agencies have…
By Stephanie Goldberg (CNN) — Upon his release from prison in the new “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” corporate raider Gordon Gekko reclaims his belongings: A gold watch and a mobile phone the size of…
By Damon Brown, Special to CNN (CNN) — Web-page addresses can be notoriously long, but even the normal ones seem absolutely huge in our age of Twitter and text messaging. Every letter counts when you…
By Jeannine Stein / Los Angeles Times When doctors recommend treatment for children, do parents always comply? No, but it could have to do with how much health insurance they have, a study finds. Researchers…
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…
By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO — A month before California voters decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that essentially puts those caught possessing…
By WILLIAM YONG TEHRAN — Iran has arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” in connection with a damaging worm that has infected computers in its nuclear program, the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said Saturday….
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…
By JAMES GLANZ and ALAN SCHWARZ In the endless quest for athletic advantage, a handful of major league baseball teams are engaged in an elaborate, largely clandestine race to master an advanced imaging technology that…
By ADAM NAGOURNEY LAS VEGAS — There are many cities across the country that are beginning to see the first glimpses of the end of the recession. This is not one of them. The nation’s…
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…
By MALCOLM GAY NASHVILLE — Happy-hour beers were going for $5 at Past Perfect, a cavernous bar just off this city’s strip of honky-tonk restaurants and tourist shops when Adam Ringenberg walked in with a…
by Lisa Irby Getting listed in Google and the other popular search engines is one of the most effective ways of directing free, targeted traffic to your website. Below you’ll discover what the search engines…
By BRAD STONE SAN FRANCISCO — Owners of the Nintendo Wii can finally stop waving their video game controllers in the air and sink back onto the couch. Nintendo is bringing Netflix’s online streaming video…
BROOKSVILLE – Deputies arrested a man Friday morning on a theft of services charge after Bright House Networks accused him of obtaining unauthorized cable television. Jason Norris Samulski, 34, of 9628 Southern Charm Circle in…
If you don’t have any problems, Brighthouse can be great. But then, companies you really want to do business with prove that to you WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM. 9/1/2010 – This company has gotten…
By GRACE GAGLIANO BRADENTON — Verizon is hardly tiptoeing on Bright House Network’s turf anymore. The communications company this month lowered its pricing on monthly contracts for new Tampa Bay customers to more directly compete…
If you’ve been informed that your Internet service has been suspended by the security department, it’s most likely that a computer virus has compromised your computer. Although the security department sometimes suspends the Internet service…
ORLANDO, Fla. — Bright House Networks customers are getting increasingly angry over Internet connection problems that apparently have been plaguing all of Central Florida. Most of the customers reporting the problems to Eyewitness News first…
By Richard Mullins Tampa Tribune, Fla. May 1–TAMPA — In case you hadn’t noticed, Verizon and Bright House Networks really don’t like each other. The rivals in cable, telephone and Internet service are in a…
by DAVID POGUE There’s some big news about Line2, the iPhone app I reviewed in March. As I’m sure you remember, I wrote: For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to…
By REED ABELSON The Principal Financial Group announced on Thursday that it planned to stop selling health insurance, another sign of upheaval emerging among insurers as the new federal health law starts to take effect….
By DAVID POGUE It’s always thrilling when somebody looks at the Way Things Have Always Been Done, and then asks: Why? And then goes on to change the world forever. 1967: Why is it necessary…
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS Nothing but time can cure the common cold, but a simple cup of salt water might ease the misery this winter. A sore, itchy throat and respiratory congestion are some…
