Amazon is taking its sales tax war to one of the biggest arenas of all: California. Amazon warned that it will shut down its Amazon Associates Program for California-based participants if the state passes a proposed bill that would impose new taxes on online retail sales. Read More »
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The best thing that’s happened to Facebook: Apple’s MobileMe outage, the iPhone launch and iPhone activation problems across the board. Why? Because no one seems to be reporting on them being out for most of the morning. I just tried to get in;… Read More »
PC Advisor, a UK-based magazine, reports that Cisco Systems (CSCO) may phase out its Linksys brand all together, making the company it acquired in March 2003 for $500 million a product category, according to Cisco’s VP of SMB solutions marketing, Rick Moran. Last year,… Read More »
Harvard thinks so. “Entrepreneurs are, on average, significantly wealthier than people who work in paid employment. Research shows that entrepreneurs comprise fewer than 9 percent of households in the United States but they hold 38 percent of household assets and 39 percent of the total net worth.” So… Read More »
Today we’ve picked up a useful piece in Crain’s Chicago Business on how entrepreneurs can do more for their small companies with tax write-offs. With only three weeks left in the year, the clock is ticking. Crain’s interviewed accountant Russell Romanelli, of the firm Wolf… Read More »
Michael Robertson’s portfolio of companies might not have massive market share, but it still keeps pushing the envelope. Earlier this week, his MP3Tunes introduced a new locker sync. And now his SIPphone is getting ready to launch Gizmo5, a mobile callback and… Read More »
In-Stat/MDR Forecasts 118 Million 3G Wireless Subscribers in China by 2008 and says that 2004 will be a crucial year for Third Generation (3G) cellular in China. With over 260 million mobile subscribers and more than 4 million new subscribers added every month in 2003, China… Read More »
