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I recently read John Zappe’s feature on the $33M for an Army recruitment video game. GameSpot reported that $33M was spent over 10 years (year-by-year budget summary is below in Chart 1).
Taking a deeper dive into the story, I learned that the military combined spent about $700 million on recruitment advertising during the President Bush years. $33M amounts to 4.7% [...]
Here’s an example of a new business and green jobs being created. The US needs innovation and new businesses.
Solar power when the sun goes down?
A Santa Monica, Calif., company called SolarReserve has taken a step toward making that a reality, filing an application with California regulators to build a 150-megawatt solar farm that will store [...]
Jobs Jobs Jobs are the focus of The Whitehouse Jobs Summit. The Summit will focus on three main areas:
Green Jobs
Infrastructure
Small Business financing
Green Jobs focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, jobs in renewable energy (wind, solar, biofuels, etc), but also can include logistics jobs and “green” products made from recycled material etc… The renewable energy industry [...]
Recruiting Has to Go Video, right. Video, combined with the Internet, is a game-changer for recruiting, right, as Kevin Wheeler has stated recently. But I still hear it all the time – “How much for a video?,” “It too expensive?” In ADOTAS I came across an article that is retweeted below. This article answers the [...]
The Great Recession is in the ninth inning and the home team is up by one run. As long as the other team doesn’t ties it up, the recession is over. As you can see, I am cautiously optimistic. We have come a long way from the market panic in the fall on ’08 and [...]
Bloomberg L.P., a news and media company that provides business and financial professionals information, at the end of December cut all employee salaries by 5 percent in response to the weaker economy. This move might save some jobs.
Certainly with the downturn of the financial markets Bloomberg revenue must have taken a hit, but Bloomberg is private and doesn’t report [...]
Here’s an email I got today, I’d like to see if plaxo become my preferred biz networking site, I hope it does. I like the Outlook backup and sync features. The personal vs biz preferences are nice too. I wish the search people/connections could be more like linkedin.
I wonder how many people on Plaxo live in [...]
For several days I have noticed that prices at two HESS gas stations in NJ had prices that were inconsistent. On March 14th I toke pictures and then calculated that the price variances ranges from 1-4%, why is that? How are gas prices determined?
Why would a gas station on the same street less then one mile [...]
I saw this in Mashable:
SNAP Interactive Earnings: Are Facebook Application Users Worth $1.40 a Piece?
January 16, 2008 — 03:22 AM PST — by Adam Ostrow — Share This
As a publicly traded company, SNAP Interactive (formerly eTwine Holdings), the company behind Facebook apps “Meet New People” and “Are You Interested?” is required to file their [...]
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