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Five Bucks For Your Thoughts
Alice Siba and Mila Sidman need your opinions about various marketing and business products and would love to pay you for them. They are currently collecting product reviews written by online marketers like you…and for every product review they use, they’ll put $5 into your PayPal account. They’re looking for people who can write short [...]
A $10-a-Seat Airline Launched
Start-up Skybus Airlines sold 97,000 seats in its first day, selling out its $10 one-way tickets on flights from Fort Lauderdale to Columbus, Ohio through August. The Columbus-based airline is awaiting Federal Aviation Administration approval for its plans to begin service between the two cities May 29. It plans to sell at least 10 seats [...]
Death by tax fraud
Some Jackson Hewitt franchise owners may be feeling the heat after U.S. sues a franchisee for tax-fraud schemes. On April 17 Jackson Hewitt franchise owners may be getting a little hot under the collar. That’s not because of today’s tax deadline, but rather because earlier this month the Justice Department sued the operators of more [...]
I sue, you sue, we all sue – and the sillier the cause, the better
A woman in Florida has sued her employers for developing carpal tunnel syndrome – also known as repetitive motion injury – in both hands. Why should this make news? It’s a common occupational hazard for data entry operators and others who spend all day typing on a keyboard. Right, except the lady in question is [...]
Google Buys Doubleclick For $3.1 Billion
Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc. New York-based DoubleClick helps its customers place and track online advertising, including search ads, which Google — more than its nearest [...]
Make Money With YouTube?
People who upload their own films to the video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the advertising revenue. YouTube founder Chad Hurley has confirmed that his team is working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity” He said the system would be rolled out in a couple of months and use a [...]
IRS may shift AMT gap burden to small biz
To raise revenue, the feds plan to stick their noses deeper into small-business financial records. Carson Stanwood has no problem with the Internal Revenue Service going after tax cheats. The founder of Stanwood & Partners Public Relations, based in Jackson Hole, Wyo., understands that paying their taxes in full puts small-business owners like him at [...]
