Posts Tagged ‘business’

Microsoft goes shopping

Speculation is rife as to why Microsoft has decided to purchase GreenField Online, on online research company. The answer seems to be it that it was really after Ciao, a leading European shopping comparison website that has a large community of follower who shop and leave reviews on the site....

Starting a company

Great post on ReadWriteWeb entitled Startup, Inc – What You Need to Know Before Starting a Company. It talks about all the different vehicles you can use to set up a business entity from being a sole trader all the way to setting up a corporation. It then talks about...

Change

Great post on Ted Murphy’s blog about Change. Here’s a snippet: I think there are 4 phases of change. 1. Recognizing that a change needs to be made. 2. Deciding what the change should be. 3. Making the change. 4. Embracing the new direction. In my opinion phases 2-3 are...

Online Gaming – different jurisdictions

I had posted previously on this blog about an online gaming company called Bet365 poker. Well, it’s funny how once you find out about an organisation you sort of notice when you spot something in the news about them. Well, today I came across this press release: WSOP Heads Up...

Office Birthday Cards

A mate of mine from work had his birthday a couple of days ago, and I found myself thinking about the obligatory cards that circulate at work. Everyone signs them, but sometimes they feel more like a collection of people rather than a whole organisation. So I got thinking how...

Culture and Negotiation

Interesting chapter in my Negotiation text tonight about the emphasis some people place on recognising differences and similarities in particular cultures and the reality of how irrelevant it sometimes is. Here’s a poignant section from the text: It is important, however, to recognise the existence of cultural diversity and it...

The “sell cheap, get famous” ploy

Here’s a great paragraph from the chapter of my Negotiation text I was reading this evening: We are all familiar, I hope, with how advertisements refer not to ‘low wages’ but always to ‘good prospects’, and how buyers speak not of ‘oneoff low priced orders’ but vaguely of ‘the possibilities...

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