Category: Business
iPhone 4 price gauging begins!

Let’s be honest people when the iPhone 4 finally released we expected for the super trendy device to fly off the shelves of every single store. What is also expected is the hustling that will go on from people purchasing the phone going through the whole activation process with AT&T only to sell it on Ebay or Craigslist. Why? for [...]

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Oprah Joins The Smartphone App Market

Yes, you’ve read correctly Oprah has officially launched her own app that is currently available on all popular smartphone operating systems which include iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Palm. Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios has announced the release of Oprah Mobile, a “single entry point, allowing users to interact with Oprah.com through one simple application.” Here are a couple notable features: Audio [...]

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7-Eleven Will Sell It’s Own Premium Brew Called Game Day

We are still living in tough times even though most economists claim we are out of our recession but we know tough times result in opportunistic business ventures. So, 7-Eleven has decided to roll out their own “premium brew” at ofcourse a budget price called Game Day. The fact that 7-Eleven home of the Slurpee and Slim Jim brought in [...]

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Redbox Set To Challenge Netflix In Low Cost Video Streaming

If you are a Redbox customer like myself you should be happy to hear that Redbox is getting itself ready to enter the video streaming market. This is bad news for companies like Netflix when it comes to revenue because as some of you already know Redbox got it’s fame from offering cheap box office movies at a price of [...]

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In Financial Trouble Rock & Republic Files For Chap 11

The Los Angeles-based company Rock & Republic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. When most companies file for chapter 11 it’s really for a much bigger restructuring and reorganizing plan to possibly cut cost (i.e. jobs) or bring in more capital from big wigs with deep pockets. So chap 11 isn’t the end of the world necessarily. The founder Michael [...]

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A Party Bike With Pizza & Booze

I just thought this concept by Metrofiets a business who builds custom cargo bikes straight out of Portland, Oregon was just so cool and innovative (just like most of the other designs they make). Seriously, there isn’t much to say about this bike but that it’s a frat boys dream, here are some of the bikes’ amazing features: Wood bar [...]

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Top 20 Franchises To Get Your Entrepreneur On

This is for those business heads out there who can envision themselves one day maybe purchasing a franchise but just not so sure what franchise to join. Frankly, I know lots of people who consider themselves entrepreneurs who don’t have the slightest clue on what a franchise cost and quite honestly don’t have any idea on how to obtain such [...]

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