Business Beat (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge – The current state of the market is already putting a damper on the holidays as many producers and traders are only making short-term business plans for Tet (the lunar new year festival) to minimise business risks.
Dana Picore is the bodyguard to the stars (Fortune Small Business via Yahoo! Finance)
Just before dawn on a Monday, the first call of the day came in at Picore Worldwide, a small security contractor based in Los Angeles. Trouble was brewing at a client's Midwest offices: A terminated worker was angry.
All you wanted to know about meltdown (HT via Yahoo! India News)
A doctor friend recently told me something interesting. The doctors' lounge in the Mumbai hospital where he works has a television that was usually tuned to one of the business news channels during the bull market that took Indian shares to record heights by January 2008.
Bush, global leaders vow to cooperate in financial crisis (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON - Leaders of the world's most industrialized nations agreed Saturday to work together with the U.S. Treasury Department and international institutions to attack the widening financial crisis that threatens them all.
Belk unveils its biggest store (The Charlotte Observer)
For years, most shoppers reached Belk stores by car and by foot. Now, all it takes is a mouse – a change that catapults the Charlotte-based chain into a group of department stores vying for consumer dollars by offering a broad selection of clothes, shoes, housewares and beauty products online. The new Belk.com was launched last month, replacing an outmoded site that included gift registries and ...
TheirTube: Websites compete for video uploading (Miami Herald)
Thirteen hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. It's headquarters for the small-town nobody with a camcorder and dreams of stardom. But when there are hundreds of millions of videos that call YouTube home, it's tough to get noticed.
