The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement requiring Cingular Wireless Corporation to divest assets in 13 markets in order to proceed with Cingular Wireless’s $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless.

eBay today announced that it has agreed to purchase additional publicly-held common shares of Internet Auction Co. (IAC). from several institutional shareholders, including funds managed by Tiger Technology, Lone Pine Capital LLC, Viking Global Investors and others, collectively representing more than 23% of IAC’s total outstanding shares.

The possible purchase was suggested by Sun President Jonathan Schwartz in interviews with the Wall Street Journal. So far, Novell has been mute on this possibility. Acquiring Novell would cost approximately $3 billion.

Google’s purchase of Picasa, a company that offers digital photography software, has caused a web traffic to the site to increase by a stunning 6000%. Shortly after the announcement of the purchase was made, Google began featuring a link that directed visitors to Picasa’s download page.

With the rights of Interactive Search Holdings properties (Excite.com, iWon.com, myway.com, to name a few) well in hand, Ask.com has seen its overall web traffic increase by 150 percent. According to a comScore web rankings report, through Ask’s acquisition of ISH properties, Ask Jeeves jumped 18 spots to assume the number 6 ranking.

Quickly following up to their purchase of digital photograph software company Picasa, Google has introduced a link on their homepage inviting visitors to download the software for free. That is, the ad/link is appearing for some.

Before you jump into spending countless hours on designing and publishing your website, or spending hundreds on having it done by anyone else you should plan out your full design (or structure). This is very important so that when it comes time to do this long-lasting project you will be well prepared.

How much do you really know about investment property? Accurate research and professional expertise applied to the purchase of an investment property builds a solid foundation for financial success.

Well that’s easy, so your website can actually be seen by users within search engines when relevant key terms to your website, business or product are being searched. If your website is not ranking in the top 20 for actual keywords being searched on the engines, then you definitely require search engine optimisation immediately.

Well that’s easy, so your website can actually be seen by users within search engines when relevant key terms to your website, business or product are being searched. If your website is not ranking in the top 20 for actual keywords being searched on the engines, then you definitely require search engine optimization immediately.

If you’re looking at Lease Purchasing as a business, you’ll obviously want to earn much more than the $20,000 per year in our “How To Give Yourself A $20,000/Year Raise Without Asking Your Boss” article.

As you are making your cold calls on property, you will run into sellers that are having a hard time selling, however, the numbers just don’t work for you to take on the deal. Do you just say, “I can’t work with those numbers”.
Heck, no. In fact, I don’t even use that phrasing.

I have two related quesitons about the section 179 code on deducting a vehicle purchase for my business. First, do I have to be incorporated? And second, does the vehicle have to be registered in the namy of a company, or can it be registered in my name (as a sole proprietor)?

Let’s face it you only have so many friends and family members that you can call to try to recruit into your home-based business. Don’t be put off that they might not want to join. Not everybody is ready to “give up their day jobs” to join you.

One of the most difficult things for a small business owner to part with is their advertising dollars. Face it, as a small business or work from home mom, we just can’t afford to throw money around without a guarantee of results.

Are you one of those CIOs who are beleaguered by the politics of getting your budget or purchases approved?

It’s great to be an entrepreneur, right? There are plenty of “upsides” to being your own boss. But there is a downside. If you are sick or disabled, you can’t rely on employee health benefits to carry you through the rough times. How long could you manage without an income if you were unable to work due to sickness or injury? If more than ninety days would be a problem, you have probably already considered purchasing disability insurance.