Hollywood in recent years has raced to mine the Internet for raw talent capable of crossing over to traditional platforms like movies and television, the places where the real money is still made. Those efforts have largely failed, reports The New York Times.
What works on [...]
The New York Times has a story about a man with an interesting ‘job’.
For the past 10 years, Jesus Leonardo has been cleaning up at an OTB parlor in Midtown Manhattan, cashing in, by his own count, nearly half a million dollars’ worth of discarded winning [...]
The online marketplaces eBay and Amazon once seemed like surefire places to make extra money or to build an online retail business. It’s not quite so simple anymore, reports The New York Times.
Identify product areas that interest you, and seek a niche. Rather than sell, say, [...]
Science has never given much credence to claims that you can learn Chinese or French by having the instruction CDs play while you sleep, reports The New York Times.
If any learning happens that way, most scientists say, the language lesson is probably waking the sleeper up, [...]
Silicon Valley may have discovered the perfect business: charging real money for products that do not exist reports, The New York Times.
These so-called virtual goods, like a $1 illustration of a Champagne bottle on Facebook or the $2.50 Halloween costume in the online game Sorority Life, [...]
The New York Times is reporting that PayPal is seeking new ways to use its payment system.
PayPal held its first developer conference in San Francisco to officially open its platform to software developers wanting to include payments in their Web or cellphone applications.
With the [...]
Is your franchise looking to build its presence online? If so, Daren Coudriet is the man to speak to. Coudriet, 44, has been in technology consulting and internet solutions for more than two decades and counted companies like The New York Times, Standard & Poor’s and [...]
Last month, the Center for Women’s Business Research released a study which found that 28 percent, or an estimated 8 million, of all U.S. businesses were women-owned, reports The New York Times.
The study also showed that those 8 million cross-industry businesses created or maintained 16 [...]
