Starting a small business is critical to start since it requires a lot of investment, know-how, analysis and market research. To start it initially you have to identify the business opportunity that involves choosing what kind of business to start, which can be an immobilizing task when confronted with the multitude of opportunities. Build a […]
Crusade to bring the real internet to mobile phones.
At Google’s London headquarters, among the primary-coloured exercise balls and tents erected for brainstorming purposes, a wall of cupboards contains several hundred mobile phones, each stashed in its own little cubby hole. Nearby, around 80 people are beavering away in what is the largest grouping of Google mobile software engineers in the world. Having conquered […]
A Zero Carbon Footprint? What Individuals Can Do To Make It Happen
Living the No Impact lifestyle is impossible; a carbon footprint by definition equals damage to the earth. Yet some people try. This article assesses what individuals are meaningfully doing to contribute to the environment and how corporations are playing into the trend by conducting experience based marketing. There are many crazy shops around, but FLOWmarket beats […]
Nissan To Start Production In India By 2010
Nissan signed a $500 million (about N63) billion joint venture with Ashok Leyland earlier in the week to produce light commercial vehicles in India. Nissan, Japan’s third-largest carmaker, said that separate talks with Bajaj Auto to develop an ultra-low-cost car were progressing in a favourable direction. Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of Nissan, was in […]
Ebay: The First 10 Years
Yes, you read that correctly: ten years. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site – then called ‘AuctionWeb’ – to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first […]
Setting Website Objectives
As with any other aspect of your business, you want to know that your website is working for you. Just as you wouldn’t keep spending money on television advertisements or glossy brochures unless they were helping you to achieve your business goals, nor should your website go unchecked. The first step is to clearly understand […]