Some joke that giving computers to salespeople is what caused the recession of the early 90s. Maybe today’s economic woes are a result of Facebook and YouTube. The rise of Web 2.0 and social media has almost directly correlated to the drop in the economy.
The clever thing about social media and the rest of today’s Internet is that it fools you in to thinking you are
Economics is a foundation of many online games including Ultima Online, one of the earliest Massive Online Multi Player Games, a predecessor to World of Warcraft (WOW) and many other games that exist today.
Similar economic principals are seen in social networking games such as Mafia Wars and Vampire Wars on Facebook.
Enphase Energy Selects Flextronics as Its Global Manufacturing Partner
PETALUMA, Calif. and SINGAPORE, May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Enphase Energy, the global leader in solar microinverter systems, and Flextronics (NASDAQ:FLEX) , a leading global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider today announced that Enphase has selected Flextronics as its global manufacturing partner for the production of solar [...]
U.S. Lumber Improves Business Performance With IBM Business Intelligence
New intelligence helps increase profitability and customer satisfaction
ARMONK, N.Y., May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced that it has provided U.S. Lumber Group with a business intelligence (BI) solution that is providing the company with in-depth reporting capabilities in real time versus their original [...]
WELLESLEY, Mass., May 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Entrepreneurship educators from around the world will join real-life entrepreneurs to learn about entrepreneurship content and pedagogy at the 2009 Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators May 25-29, 2009 at Babson College.
The intensive five-day program explores the entrepreneurial process and core topics in the discipline. Sixty-four entrepreneurship educators from 12 [...]
NASA Selects High-Performing Interns as First Student Ambassadors
WASHINGTON, May 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — NASA is taking further steps to engage undergraduate and graduate students in NASA science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, research and interactive opportunities. In one such effort, NASA has inducted more than 80 high-performing interns into the newly unveiled NASA Student [...]
By John Lopinto
Co-Founder, ExpertFlyer.com
Today’s business climate has forced most companies to operate in the “lean and mean” mode. This is probably evidenced most with everyday expenses such as business travel. While our willingness to help the company reduce necessary costs for travel and entertainment by securing the lowest possible airfare available, the reality [...]
Country music legend Willie Nelson talks about what attracted him to biodiesel, his commitment to American farms and small towns, and why he
thought his wife had gotten into his “stash.”
For more, see NOW’s report “Home Grown” at pbs.org/now.
by Bruce Fenton
If you are short of something economic to worry about, try the American savings rate. The people of Europe might tell us that our economy is going down like a lead sled because we Americans are such poor savers. And, more than a few of the financial press seem to share that view.
The [...]
It’s oil, not gold, that developing nations realize they need to power up their economies and grow with the rest of the 21st century world. India is a prime example. Unlike the days of the British Raj, when Indian princes and their British counterparts found fame and fortune as hunters of exotic game and precious [...]