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Jul 10

Telemarketers Ignore Do Not Call List - Surprise? No.

The Federal Trade Commission announced a milestone this week: its Do Not Call registry has just passed 200 million numbers.

…). This is a proposal not to regulate but to prohibit speech, not because it’s deceptive or abusive, but because it’s unpopular. As was said here, there is public sentiment against telemarketing, per se. Some people are mad. Some people are fed up. Some people just hate such calls, but freedom of speech, our most cherished freedom, means the freedom to speak when it’s against public sentiment.
For good measure, the same speaker later switched gears and praised the millions of people employed in telemarketing (many part-time), saying that the overwhelming number who are employed in this business are lawful, patriotic and normal Americans, and for the Government to cut out a series of these jobs is a very serious matter.
These Americans might have been normal and patriotic, but the rest of the country just wanted to eat in peace. Testimony at the same hearing from one aggrieved mother conjured up the specter of those dark days, back before the federal list existed and rules governing telemarketing were…

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Jul 10

Gimmie Tha Loot! America’s Top Paying Degrees

A college degree is essential for many of the high-paying careers in America, and, whether we like it or not, having money is extremely important to living a comfortable life.

…of PhD’s granted, http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10308/). The number of undergrad level positions in physics is very small, as is the number of graduates. For the US I’d guess you’re looking around 400. For comp sci or chemistry it’s easily 10x that.

I’m now working on a PhD in comp sci, because frankly, comp sci is easier and it pays better. A PhD in physics expects to start around 70k/year (a sort of standard professors salary give or take) whereas a PhD in comp sci is closer to 90k. This is reflected at the undergraduate level as well, where a comp sci student can expect to start 4-5k/year more than a physicist, assuming the physicist can find work at all (and many of them work as junior programmers), whereas comp sci types are beating away job offers on a monthly basis, myself included.

Engineering is definitely not one monolithic business. Chemical engineers make quite a lot more than their more generic electrical or civil counterparts, which is screwing with the average here. Last I…

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Jul 10

How To Avoid Discrimination Complaints at Your Business

Here are a few basic ideas and resources to help you consider the problem of employment discrimination.

…or harass, based on any of the above characteristics, it may be considered discrimination.
The most commonly known federal employment discrimination is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law applies to businesses with 15 or more employees. It says that employers may not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, or religion.
If your business is very small, with one to three employees, the vast majority of antidiscrimination laws do not apply to your business. The major exception to this general rule is the federal Equal Pay Act. In addition, there might be a local ordinance or state law that does apply to you.
If you are faced with discrimination complaints, the best way to handle it is to take it seriously and investigate thoroughly, no matter how slight the claim or claims might seem to you. A few basic guidelines for handling discrimination and harassment claims are as follows:

keep an open mind
treat the complainer with respect
do not blame or retaliate against the…

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Jul 10

Pro Arctic Laser: Violation of Lightsaber Copyright?

If the future is now, can LucasFilm stop a similar device from being sold?

…an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times… before the Empire. -Obi-Wan to Luke, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
The Lightsaber has been an iconic weapon of the future for a generation. But if the future is now, can LucasFilm stop a similar device from…

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Jul 10

How Organized Consumer Purchasing Can Change Business VIDEO

A great video on how organized consumer purchasing can change business, there is strength in numbers.

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Jul 10

Google Secretly Invested $100+ Million In Zynga

Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone.

…Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we’ve confirmed from multiple sources. The company has raised somewhere around half a billion dollars in venture capital in the last year alone, including $150 million from Softbank Capital last month and $180 million late last year from Digital Sky Technologies, Tiger Global, Institutional Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. The Softbank announcement was never officially confirmed by the company, however, and the Google investment was likely part of that deal as well.
The investment part of the deal closed a month ago or so. A larger strategic partnership is still in process.
The investment was made by Google itself, not Google Ventures, say our sources, and it’s a highly strategic deal. Zynga will be the cornerstone of a new Google Games to launch later this year, say multiple sources. Not only will Zynga’s games give Google Games a solid base of social games to build…

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Jul 10

Soho OS Lands $1M, Opens Business Mgmt Suite To Businessess

Today, the company is announcing that it has secured $1 million in funding from The Time. This is on top of the $250K the company had raised in its pre-seed round.

…SalesForce . Today, the company is announcing that it has secured $1 million in funding from The Time. This is on top of the $250K the company had raised in its pre-seed round.
In our initial post, the company offered 1000 beta invites to TechCrunch readers, and in response, 7000 signed-up. Today the company is removing the closed Beta gate, opening up the service to all. Soho OS is sweetening things up for TechCrunch readers with $20 towards communication services for all new TechCrunch registrants. Just follow this link: http://www.sohoos.com/welcome/techcrunch/
The company has already begun putting the money to good use. As noted in the initial post, the interface could certainly use a UX overhaul, and it got one, and a new logo to boot. With a new color scheme, layout and consolidation, the new interface’s look…

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Jul 10

1984: Ranking Todays Worst Big Brother Companies

How much would you sell your private data to a company for? Would you take $100 to let someone see every site you have visited over the past year, how about $1,000?

…In what is perhaps the boldest (and most brainless) information scam of all time, Response Unlimited, a large marketing firm, received authorization to sell a list of Terri Schiavo s financial contributors to other companies as sales leads. The story broke on Response Unlimited’s company wide privacy mining operation only after it was revealed that most of the donors were constantly getting loads of spam and telemarketing calls.
Response Unlimited s shameless consumer data mining scheme earns them the number 10 spot on this countdown.
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Jul 10

Leverage New Marketing Tactics with the Myriad of Choices

Retailers are hurting! People are not spending as much regardless quite appealing discounts, but online business is still doing well according to Forrester report for 2009. What fuels it?

…2.072010How to Leverage New Marketing Tactics with the Myriad of Choices Written by:guest - Posted in: Marketing - Tags: marketing, tacticsRetailers are hurting! People are not spending as much regardless quite appealing discounts, but online business is still doing well according to Forrester report for 2009. What fuels it? Can you believe it’s good marketing: in the form of rich media ads or experiences, well-targeted email marketing, paid search and enabling mobile shopping opportunities? At the same time, it’s not quite as odd as it seems without marketing and advertising your online business might lose its fuel and vanish. Bringing the traffic to your site is very vital and transferring it into purchasing even more so, but it does require more effort than before due to the normal environmental intricacies of online shopping and additional challenges of reduced spending. So what are the secrets of steady online business?Through browsing the latest ecommerce guides, we can distinguish the following…

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Jun 10

Confirmed: Criterion Capital Partners Acquires Bebo From AOL

The rumors are true: hedge fund Criterion Capital Partners is indeed the buyer of Bebo. As we reported yesterday, AOL is offloading the social networking service for less than $10 million (other media are reporting a purchase price of around $2.5 million).To remind you: AOL paid $850 million for Bebo back in 2008

…loss for AOL. They couldn’t even give that business away.
“Its easy to play with other people’s money! ”
Indeed. Microsoft’s Powerset.com acquisition wasn’t any better though. Friends bailing friends at startups out with other people’s money is sad indeed. In Canada the crown corporation BDC used their government power to bail out Nitix, and exit sale it to IBM which mercy rebranded it as Lotus Foundations. It was really just Debian Linux with a couple small proprietary packages(too few to mention) on top of it. Except in Canada, instead of using private investors who willingly trusted people’s money, they use the tax payer’s.
In a way this is good. The demise of AOL, MySpace, and other online giants will leave space for new giants to be born. New stars are made of the star dust of dead stars which have super nova’d.
These employees will simply work at the new companies when their companies die….

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