Thursday, January 31, 2008ICANN Targets “Domain Tasting”
ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit organization that oversees the management of domain names and IP address assignments) recently made an announcement that they were initiating steps to eliminate “domain tasting”.
What is “domain tasting”? According to ICANN, it’s “the use of the Add Grace Period to test the profitability of [...]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008Business Report: Fed Cuts Rates Again
As you may have noticed, we like to keep our eye on the economic world here on the Aplus.Net Blog. The reason is obvious — although online business has its own methods, it still relies on the traditional business models to a certain extent. Loans and financing are still very much a function of the [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2008“Super SBA” Pitched to U.S. Mayors
While receiving an award at last week’s U.S. Conference of Mayors‘ 76th Winter Meeting, small business advocate and nationally renowned entrepreneur George Cloutier called upon the creation of a “Super SBA”.
The new organization would bring together all the loose ends of the current SBA and its myriad programs, while also doing a better job of [...]
Monday, January 28, 2008Can Yahoo Still Compete?
As most people in the online business game realize, once-dominant Yahoo Inc. has struggled in recent years to keep up with the incredibly rapid growth of search engine rival (and fellow Silicon Valley resident) Google.
For a number of reasons, the largest measure of success has gone to Google in recent years. Perhaps its the company’s [...]
Thursday, January 24, 2008eBay Making Changes
Many people in the online business game got their start by selling items on eBay. And that’s a trend that continues strong to this very day. Although it was one of the very first Internet success stories, eBay continues to dominate, with still-high traffic and revenues as well as divisions in roughly 30 countries around [...]
Wednesday, January 23, 200810 Tips for Getting that Perfect Domain Name
It may have a somewhat low-key presence on the Web, but don’t let that fool you: The under-the-radar business resource website EcomHelp.com has a nice variety of helpful articles geared toward providing advice for the start-up entrepreneur.
Most of the articles are basic, bare-bones business primers; but if you can get past the uninspired design and [...]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008CNET Battling Potential Takeover
For several weeks now, news has been spreading that premier technology website CNET is fighting efforts of certain key investors who seek to gain a controlling interest in the company, effectively taking it over.
According to a press release posted today on TradingMarkets.com, “Toward the end of 2007, Jana Partners, LLC, started buying up large swaths [...]
Friday, January 18, 2008Aplus.Net Celebrates 10 Years of Web Hosting With Upgrades, Promotion
This week, we at Aplus.Net announced that we’ve made comprehensive changes to our line of award-winning shared hosting plans in an effort to better accommodate today’s knowledgeable and discerning consumers. The rebranding also coincides with our ten-year anniversary of providing shared web hosting, as well as our exciting new promotion to waive the set-up fees [...]
Thursday, January 17, 2008Google as Lobbyist, Philanthropist
Google has not only become the dominant company in Internet business, it’s also a household name and a force unto itself in the American economy. Not bad for a company that was launched just ten years ago.
Part of the secret behind the company’s success is its ability to innovate, combined with a spot-on sense of [...]
Wednesday, January 16, 2008A Laptop without a CD Drive?
As the latest development in their ongoing efforts to dazzle the marketplace by taking popular marketplace trends to all-new highs, Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the “world’s thinnest computer” at yesterday’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
The trend being capitalized upon is making consumer products that are smaller, thinner, more lightweight and more transportable than any [...]