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Cash In Local Bank Teller’s Hand Was Almost Gone With The Wind
Posted by admin in Finance Saturday, 23 April 2011 09:11 No Comments
Cash In Local Bank Teller’s Hand Was Almost Gone With The Wind
Police made an arrest Friday after a gust of wind blew some cash out of the hand of a teller at a bank drive-through in downtown Waco and then a man grabbed it and fled.
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What happens when you have borrowed money from a Finance Company that has gone in to liquidation?
Posted by admin in Finance Wednesday, 19 January 2011 08:57 2 Comments
When I say Finance Company I mean a lender that I obtained a loan from. Does this mean you have to repay the whole debt immediately? Or you get away with not paying anything more? Or you continue to pay off the debt under the original terms specified when the company was operating?
A Deal Gone Wrong
Posted by admin in Finance Tuesday, 18 January 2011 12:42 No Comments
Each day, Inc.’s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here’s what we found today:
Groupon learning the ropes in Japan. Rapidly expanding the online mass-purchase discount site Groupon into Asia has caused some cultural—and public-relations—flubs, the Wall Street Journal reports. In fact, CEO Andrew Mason ended up posting an apology video to customers who purchased a Groupon for a traditional new year’s meal. He said an overflow of orders caused the restaurant to deliver “the food late to many of our customers and in terrible condition to others.” Mason is already steering the company’s representatives to better process reasonable numbers of orders, and work with the needs of clients as well as buyers. Groupon is also in the midst of expanding to China, and already it has 50 million visitors in 35 countries.
Goldman’s botched Facebook deal. Goldman Sachs is cutting off the American investors it tapped on the shoulder last week, dangling an exclusive Facebook share offer. The bank feared the media circus surrounding the deal—which has already triggered an S.E.C. probe—would be interpreted as “general solicitation and advertising.” That’s a no-no in private offerings, The New York Times reports. Foreign investors, who play by a different set of rules, are expected to prop up the deal. Kind of ironic, since this whole thing was widely viewed as a big effort to skirt regulations in the first place.
Who’s trying to lure start-up talent? Trading firms. And they’re having an increasingly tough time recruiting the tech-savvy, hoodie-wearing programmer type who, more and more, are attracted to Silicon Valley after graduation, the Wall Street Journal reports. So, financial firms are upping their recruiting game, offering perks like exercise rooms, on-site arcades, and other lavish bonuses. The high salary doesn’t hurt, either. “We’ll just pay much more than the Googles and the Facebooks of the world,” says CEO Raj Fernando of Chicago’s Chopper Trading.
LOLcats publisher raises $30 million. Well, this is certainly no laughing matter: Cheezburger, the online publisher of LOLcats and FAIL Blog, has raised $30 million in funding, TechCrunch reports. The latest round was led by the Foundry Group with Madrona Venture Group, Avalon Ventures, and SoftBank Capital participating. Foundry, Madrona and Avalon will each put a member on Cheezburger’s board of directors. Ben Huh, a former journalist who founded Cheezburger in 2007, told TechCrunch the new funds will be used to “hire, hire, hire” and expand internationally. The company currently has 50 employees and boasts a user base of 16.5 million people.
Taking a shot at the American market. It’s been a Polish national drink for centuries, but until recently, ubrówka has been banned in the United States. The vodka, which contains a single blade of bison grass in every bottle, has been described as the absinthe of Poland or, as one marketing manager put it, a “forbidden fruit.” According to the Wall Street Journal, the FDA has restricted sales of the liquor because it contains coumarin, a toxic chemical found in bison grass. But now, after two decades of lobbying, the vodka is being sold here under a different name, without the coumarin. Polish purists, though, argue the taste is lacking. Or, as one customer put it, “The real one is something special… It has the smell of the forest.”
Disaster prep 101. How can you make your employees feel prepared, and safe, should a traumatic event happen in your office? In the wake of the Tucson shooting rampage, Joe Sharkey writes in the New York Times that simple first-aid training is the simplest way to up general preparedness among your staff. He proposes that business travelers should have access to first-aid training, and why not give it during the occasionally long waits they face at airports?
Here’s a reason to walk to work: Mass transit riders are six times more likely to get sick than walkers and drivers, The Daily News reports. The University of Nottingham polled 138 patients at a doctor’s office, and far more of those who had riden mass transit in the last five days reported getting sick. Our advice? Use your holiday bonus to get a skateboard.
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Customer Service Gone Haywire
Posted by admin in Finance Monday, 29 November 2010 11:15 No Comments
Each day, Inc.’s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here’s what we found today:
The customer is always wrong? That’s the slogan DecorMyEyes.com founder Vitaly Borker uses to draw publicity, no matter how unsavory, to his website. The New York Times investigated how Borker works tirelessly to refuse refunds, skirt the rules, and even threaten customers to get them to write about and link to his site on customer complaint boards like RipoffReport.com. In the meantime, Google either cannot or is unwilling to distinguish between good and bad coverage, placing DecorMyEyes near the top of searches for many brand name eyeglass carriers. But just how long he can sustain the ploy remains to be seen: one customer he physically threatened persisted to have him arrested and accused of aggravated harassment. Since then, Borker says he has discontinued the practice but continues to badger and tussle with customers over payments, legitimate or otherwise. “Why is the merchant always wrong?” Borker asks. “Can the customer ever be wrong? Is that not possible?”
Black Friday on-the-go. Why wait in line when you can get the same deal on your phone? TechCrunch reports today that eBay and PayPal mobile apps posted huge increases in Black Friday mobile app sales. The boom is not totally surprising considering the rise in smart phone usage, but as mobile app sales become increasingly essential for a company’s bottom line, retailers are realizing that new features are the key to luring customers to spend. For example, eBay has recently revamped its iPhone app to offer barcode scanning and exclusive PayPal deals. The article also notes that “Mobile shopping is expected to be huge this year and it should be interesting to see if eBay and PayPal can sustain the mobile sales today on Cyber Monday and throughout the holiday season.”
Google’s struggle to stay nimble. Acting quickly and being nimble were two traits that made Google what it is today. But now that the search-engine giant is a global behemoth, the New York Times reports that Google is having trouble staying agile and retaining creative employees who would prefer working for a company with more of a start-up feel. While Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt says that reports of a Google brain drain are “fundamentally wrong,” he does admit that with tremendous growth, has come some stagnation. As he explains, “There was a time when three people at Google could build a world-class product and deliver it, and it is gone. So I think it’s absolutely harder to get things out the door. That’s probably our biggest strategic issue.”
Meet Israel’s Malcolm Gladwell. His name is Jacob Burak, an Israeli venture capitalist-turned writer, whose bestselling book Do Chimpanzees Dream of Retirement, has just been released in English. Our friends at Fast Company caught up with the man they’ve dubbed “Israel’s Malcolm Gladwell” to answer some crucial questions like, “Are entrepreneurs born or made?” Based on his evolutionary research at Tel Aviv University, Burak says they are both. For every glaring genetic characteristic shared by entrepreneurs–”Blood type B is found in a much higher percentage (four times as often) in self-made millionaires than in the rest of the population”–Burak offers an environmental one as well. “‘Fatherlessness’ of some sort–a pressure to essentially become one’s own father at an early age, due to absence or emotional dysfunction of the actual father–was found to be an important trait shared by many entrepreneurs,” he says. Burak also discusses the relationship, or lack thereof, between business and happiness. He says, “Businesses should not seek to deliver an increased level of happiness of their clients, or even their employees…Happiness is one of the few choices that we should be making as individuals and not rely on others to make for us.”
Google to buy Groupon? That’s what the rumor mill is saying. The story originated with tech blog VatorNews, which reported this morning that the search giant has acquired Groupon for $2.5 billion, according to a “reliable” source. Though no one has confirmed the story with Google or Groupon, the news has spread to VentureBeat and Mashable, as well. Both sites agree that the acquisition, which has been rumored for some time, would be a perfect fit for both businesses. “[It] makes a lot of sense for Google, giving it a wonderful opportunity to fuse Groupon deals with its local business directory, Google Places,” writes Mashable. “On the other hand, for Groupon it’ll be much easier to fend off all those similar services under Google’s wing.”
“Mac for the masses.” That’s what analysts are calling Apple’s lockdown of the tablet computer market during Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend sales, according to ZDNet. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says the average Apple store was selling 8.8 iPads an hour–a rate that could help push the device to new mass-scale demographics. He forecasts that Apple will sell 5.5 million iPads this quarter. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that nine percent of holiday shoppers plan to buy an iPad in the next 90 days, according to a recent survey.
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Head Lice Be Gone !!
Posted by admin in Finance Saturday, 25 September 2010 18:08 No Comments
An easy and detailed guide on treating head lice in a safe and natural way, making sure that the little buggers will never turn back !
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Small Faces – Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
Posted by admin in Finance Thursday, 22 July 2010 18:05 25 Comments
Small Faces on a French show called ‘Surprise Partie’. This show aired the 31st of December 1968 having been recorded some time earlier and is probably the last time the band were on TV together. I know this as the band did a gig at London’s Alexandra Palace on that very New Years Eve and Steve Marriott thought the gig was a disaster and stormed off stage and handed in his notice. After honouring a few more gigs in Europe he then formed Humble Pie while the rest of the band would go on to form the Faces with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood.
As the banking hours have gone from 37 to 24 / 7!
Posted by admin in Finance Wednesday, 21 July 2010 23:40 No Comments
you know that you will get access to 24 / 7 banking business hours?
Most banks today, if not all operate on a 24 / 7 business opening times made by the rapid popularity of Internet or online banking gains possible.
As technology advances at their disposal, banks have from being merely a repository where customers their hard earned money to trust for safe keeping into multi-functional facilities, seeking to simplify automate their business while continuing to seek ways to provide their customers their own business or retail development needs and requirements.
Banks and financial institutions recognize the advantage of a position to offer their services when and where their customers need these services. One of the critical factors that the customer is available, how easy or how they achieve their banks, that is, how many branches, which are the hours for their services, is assuming the bank note that for online or mobile banking? These are to answer the questions that the banks when they need to stay on top of their industry.
Not too long ago, banking transactions require at least three working days, that extend up to a week or two in order to produce the desired result. Now, with opportunities presented by technological advances and with many strong players in the competition, transaction turn-around time was incredibly cut. The banks have taken the initiative to extend its operations hours to important aspects such as customer service, cash machines to take over, etc. Some of the banks have a flexible rotation system has to ensure to that customer needs and requirements in a moment almost non answered . Customers benefit from these add-ons as a result. Most banks have reduced their lead times and their clients can get approved transaction in about 48 hours.
Technology and the rules of the game changed in the banking industry. Easy access and availability are now crucial factors of who gets what, where and how quickly. Banks that can not work on a 24 / 7 service to remain complacent, especially presented with the possibilities of technology. Banks should be able to innovate and meet the changing needs of customers. Internet or online banking may be a means for the rescue operations of the bank to keep their customer base and to attract new customers, but in the near future, can find a bank, it is necessary to go over the Internet or online banking.
With the availability of online banking in virtually all banks and financial institutions, customers’ expectations rise. They expect the system to them exactly what they promised to deliver: 24 / 7 provision of services. Planning with the proliferation of banking services on a 24 / 7, customer tolerance for breakdowns is very, very low. Therefore, it is for the banks to ensure that their systems run smoothly to maintain high confidence to the customer important.
Extend banking hours is a win-win situation on both sides of the banks at one end, and their customers at the other end. On the part of customers are just some of the benefits, they can not enjoy more banking hours, especially the 24 / 7 program on the internet or online banking:
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Cheap gas is gone!. . . How To save fuel, reduce fuel consumption and drive a fuel efficient and Green
Posted by admin in Finance Monday, 19 July 2010 10:15 No Comments
With the rising cost of gas prices and no end in sight everyone wants so much to save money at the gas pump as they possibly can.
Remember, if you could your tank for $ 10 or less filling? Who turn the oil companies think they are conning?
You and I can not control the price of gas, but by the current and up-to-date know-how to improve fuel economy, the tips and tricks, the truth. . . and not the old myths, you can quickly and easily start significantly with saving on your gas bill.
There are a lot of expertise available to you to implement immediately, so you can start saving money today. Here are some little-known tips and tricks, you can try.
1st Paying for your gas the smart way
One of the ways that you can save money at the pump is with a gasoline credit card. If you have a gas card that you be able to get 5 or 10 percent discount will be again on the acquisition of the gas. This can be as much as $ 75 to $ 300 amount per year. Many gasoline companies are joining forces with other retailers to provide you with numerous savings at the pump.
2nd Buy your gas in the morning or evening
Gasoline becomes denser in colder temperatures. Gas pumps are set so that the volume of fuel that you pump and not to measure the density. This means that if you fill up gas tank in the cooler morning temperatures, or in the colder evening hours, that you are getting better gas price economy. Try to fill your tank later in the evening to avoid the rush of day hours.
The next two tips will surprise you, I’m sure.
3rd Buy gas from a busy train station
Try to keep your gas from a gas station, which is available consistently, and therefore has its underground tanks filled regularly buy. Service stations, which will slow that natural gas in underground tanks, which should have been sitting for a long time, leading to gas contamination. This contamination can mean that the gas you buy is less powerful than fresh gas and will reduce your fuel consumption.
4th Turn the nozzle
When you are done by your gas tank try the nozzle of the hose a full 180 degrees. This will be a bit more gas can flow into the tank, and in some cases up to a whole half a cup, which otherwise would add a bonus to the next gas customer. The half cup each time add up to a lot over the years!
These are just some of the great ways to save on gas!
Arjen Bootsma
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Posted by admin in Finance Monday, 12 July 2010 06:14 No Comments
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