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Hello friends Adding to the conversation on twitter should be your goal if you are commenting on a particular twitter thread that is going on. Tweeting for the sake of tweeting is a lot like leaving one of those stupid comments some leave on our blogs. You know the ones I am talking about...

Hello friends Tax avoidance is the legal utilization of the tax regime to one's own advantage, to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law. By contrast, tax evasion is the general term for efforts to not pay taxes by illegal means. The term tax mitigation is a...

Hello friends In addition to Internet usage growing much faster outside the U.S., countries that have the strongest purchasing power are also outside the U.S. – like those in the European Union,” says Melissa Jones, vice president of U.S. Sales and Relationship Management for Planet Payment...

Hello friends It's one of the most popular combinations among online entrepreneurs: selling on both eBay and their own online store. The popularity of this combination isn't surprising. Many sellers get their first taste of selling online at eBay, and set up their own site only after months...

Hello friends Michael Pond, fixed-income strategist for inflation-linked assets at Barclays Capital (BCS), also expects inflation to decelerate this year, but he says TIPS will continue to offer more value than other government bonds that aren't adjusted for inflation. He says five- and...

Hello friends Gross Loss By Daniel Kruger and Thomas R. Keene Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest mutual fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said asset markets in the U.S. and U.K. may suffer as governments withdraw stimulus measures. “Most ‘carry’ trades...

Hello friends The painful education of real state scion rob speyer Rob Speyer showed little interest in his family's real estate business until his dad considered buying Manhattan's Rockefeller Center in 1995 for $1.2 billion. Intrigued by plans to revitalize the art deco complex, Speyer, then...

Hello friends Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer introduced a touch-screen tablet computer from Hewlett-Packard Co. and said U.S. sales of PCs running Windows jumped 50 percent over the holidays. The computer will go on sale this year and was one of...

Hello friends On what remains of Wall Street these days, the past year was filled with one opportunity after another to fix the myriad fundamental structural deficiencies—revealed all too painfully by the financial crisis—that continue to plague the country's large securities firms. At...

Hello friends Nothing is more unpredictable than a politician freed from the burden of reelection. On Jan. 6, Chris Dodd—the senior Senator from Connecticut and chairman of the banking committee—announced that, in the face of an 11% deficit in local polls, he would not seek a sixth term...

Hello friends Google’s Nexus One is being promoted on a piece of prime online search real estate that no advertiser normally has access to. U.S. users going to Google.com today can see a promotion for Nexus One right underneath the search box. Next to a tiny icon of the phone, are the words...

Hello friends AT&Tprepzares for life after the iphone New Zealand Herald AT&T Prepares For Life After iPhone BusinessWeek (blog) Are we seeing AT&T seriously begin planning for the time when it no longer has an exclusive on the iPhone ? On the day after Google's introduction of its … CES: AT&T...

Hello friends Last year, Twitter's 50 million users posted 8 billion tweets, according to research firm Synopsos, which means Google and Microsoft are paying roughly 3¢ for every 1,000 tweets. That's a pittance in the world of online advertising. Top media sites often get $10 or $20 per...