Archive for July, 2007
Pure Digital, cheap camcorder that syncs easily with YouTube.
Pure Digital, which makes disposable cameras sold in drugstores, is launching a new pocket-sized camcorder called Flip Video on Tuesday. The product, which will be available at Target, Costco, Best Buy and on Amazon.com, comes with a USB arm to connect to a personal computer or Mac. Jonathan Kaplan, CEO of San Francisco-based Pure Digital, [...]
Japan seeks stress-free tuna for finer dining
Japanese researchers are looking for ways to reduce stress levels in tuna caught in nearby waters, so they taste better when they hit the plate. A vigorous fish, tuna tends to thrash wildly when caught, which researchers believe raises its body temperature and leads to whitening of its meat, sharply cutting its flavor and value. [...]
Online Video Generating Excitement
Online video is becoming the killer application of the Internet as b-to-b marketers embrace it as an integral part of their marketing programs, using it in such disparate formats as 15-second banner ads and long-form documentaries. Spending on online video advertising will more than triple in the next three years, growing from $775.0 million this [...]
Freebies Pose Challenge For Small Biz
What happens to businesses when people expect to get things free? Especially small businesses? Surprisingly, an increasing part of our economy is based on the concept that customers get something for nothing. The Internet is the prime example. Sure, you may (or may not) have to pay to access the Internet, but once you’re there, [...]
If You Pay Your Taxes With Plastic, You Can Deduct It Too
In case you didn’t know, the IRS added several new business tax types available for credit card payments in 2007. These tax types are payable electronically through Official Payments Corp. And the fee you pay is deductible too. The IRS determined when it began accepting credit card payments for business taxes in 2006, that the [...]
Google bought GrandCentral
Last week, Google acquired one of the companies we featured, New York City’s GrandCentral. Though no details of the deal were released, TechCrunch, the famed technology news site, estimated the deal was in the $50 million range. GrandCentral will continue to remain entirely free as they work with Google to add capacity, work out any [...]
Do Just One Thing Better Than Anyone
Beverly Sills, America’s best known opera soprano, died yesterday and I was struck by a quote she made during a past New York Times interview. “I always had a theory that people became a superstar because they could do one thing better than anybody else in the world,†she said. “I think there was an [...]
