E-Commerce Gold Rush

Twenty thousand e-commerce sites are coming online every week I have long been a fan of e-commerce. Today, I see the industry in a gold rush. According to some analyst estimates, nearly 20,000 entrepreneurs now open online storefronts every week, and growth in e-commerce sales continues to outstrip that of sales in physical stores. Early

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Forbes Column 2010: An Underused Tool For Job Recovery

With unemployment soaring, incubators can help people move into self-employment–and create jobs. See how in this week’s Forbes column, An Underused Tool For Job Recovery.

Deal Radar 2009: Simply Hired

Simply Hired is a job search engine and recruitment network — a service that is, not surprisingly, much in demand at the moment. It searches thousands of job sites and companies and consolidates the information on its own site so that users can filter through it and conduct a search using keywords, company names, job

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World in Figures

The Economist sent out its 2007 Pocket edition of the World in Figures book. It is always interesting to look at the world issues with statistical data. Here’s an interesting set – The largest countries (‘000 Sq Km) in the world are: 1. Russia 17,075 2. Canada 9,971 3. China 9,561 4. United States 9,373

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