Minimum Wage Goes Up For 1.4 Million Workers in 2012

NEW YORK - While the economy still struggles onward into an uncertain future, more than 1.4 million low-income earners will see their paychecks increase after the new year as minimum wage goes up in 2012. Minimum wage is ... continue

CEO’s With Less Than Five Years on the Job Most Likely to be Fired (Consider Carol Bartz)

If you're a CEO with more than five years on the job and performs so bad, this news would serve you well. You see, a study by the University of Miami School of Business Administration found that ... continue

The modern Great Gatsby Syndrome and the coming Social Perfect Storm

It's been interesting watching the world of change that is happening in places like Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and other countries in that region and how social media tools like Facebook and Twitter are being used. It has also been ... continue

If anything should scare you to your very core it is this!

Never mind your mindless whining about privacy on the web. Never mind that you are already being tracked by your banks and credit card companies in ways that would make web advertisers blush. All the ways we ... continue

The Copenhagen Accord – the joke any sane person would have seen coming

In the beginning it was called global warming - a name that forever has hobbled any sane discussion over how our world is changing and heading into one where geographical and climate changes are only being hinted ... continue

Sprint Gets The Blackberry Curve 8530 For Just $50

These days I'd normally let out a big yawn when it comes to the Blackberry Curve 8530, however at just $50 on the Sprint Network the phone actually proves to be a great "budget friendly" device for ... continue

Our data will always be misused

There is this Utopian viewpoint propagated by the social media mavens that while our personal data is one of our more important processions; both on-line and off-line, but we should feel safe with letting it become the property of companies and ... continue

For all the good of social media is it fixing the root problems

Social media has become the voice of the common person who with enough pull behind them can make companies sit up and listen. Not everyone has that kind of pull but we all relish ... continue

Watch out Donald, here comes Jack & Suzy

This business video caught me right off guard. Like Steve Clayton, where I first learned about it, I figured that it would be dry and boring as hell but it definitely isn’t. Think ... continue

No surprises in CEOs using Twitter

So, Business Week has published their list of CEOs who are all using Twitter and while it is interesting to read many of the little snapshots accompanying the post there’s no surprises in who’s ... continue

As the Twitter Tweets – the please shoot me now episode

While I might think that all this interest in all things Twitter is borderline stupid I have a job to do and that means putting aside my feelings about Twitter and tell you the news. ... continue

One very cool business card

Man who wouldn’t want to work a Lego if you got that kind of business card to hand out – instant coolness in any meeting. apparently though everyone at Lego who gets business cards get ... continue

Sending your business cards to the cloud

Business cards are a handy little item that have been a round for a very long time. They have been the basis of things like the Rolodex or over stuffed wallets. The problem is that at ... continue

Sean “Diddy” Combs Has a Little Message For You (NSFW)

Diddy's main message to clear up all of our questions? "I did not change my name." The underlying message: "I love to talk about myself": Once again, I did not change my name, I did not change ... continue