July 2009

Green Business is Growing

by Erik on July 28, 2009

in Alternative Energy,Economy,Sustainability,Technology

GREEN BUSINESS – It’s no secret that America is going green. Green jobs are popping up everywhere, whether it’s the technician installing solar panels on a home, the scientist researching ways to build better batteries for electric cars, or the executive looking for ways to reduce waste, eliminate unnecessary packaging, and cut costs. Job growth [...]

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The Life Cycle of a Business

by Erik on July 25, 2009

in Interesting,Philosophy

What is a business – anyway?  As usual, Wikipedia offers a pretty good definition:  “In economics, business is the social science of managing people to organize and maintain collective productivity toward accomplishing particular creative and productive goals, usually to generate profit.”  Not surprisingly, as is the case for any highly complex system or entity, this [...]

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I.B.M. Profit Exceeds Wall Street Forecasts

by Erik on July 18, 2009

in Economy,IBM,Markets

International Business Machines has long been viewed as a barometer for corporate technology spending. And its second-quarter results, announced after the close of the market on Thursday, provided another encouraging sign for the technology sector. Yet I.B.M.’s performance, analysts say, is probably an indication that the company’s strategic steps in recent years are paying off, [...]

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KPMG Weighs in on Green Technology (Sept 2008)

by Erik on July 18, 2009

in Alternative Energy,Green Tech,Sustainability

In a survey released in September 2008 by KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm, two-thirds of those polled said that green technology investment is sustainable. Almost all said they expected venture capital for start-ups producing these technologies to continue to increase in 2009. Half predicted an increase of 20 percent or more over 2008 [...]

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At Wal-Mart, Labels to Reflect Green Intent

by Erik on July 18, 2009

in Green Tech,Retail

Shoppers expect the tags on Wal-Mart items to have rock-bottom prices. In the future they may also have information about the product’s carbon footprint, the gallons of water used to create it, and the air pollution left in its wake. [via NYTimes]

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Recession sends Americans to the Internet

by Erik on July 16, 2009

in Internet,Recession

It’s not just family and friends that Americans are turning to for advice and support to cope with the prolonged recession; many have found a counselor in the Internet. More than two-thirds of American adults — or 88 percent of U.S. Internet users — went online for help with recession-induced personal economic issues and to [...]

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Google Chrome OS: Be A Part of the Cloud

by Erik on July 11, 2009

in Cloud Computing,Competition,Google,Green Tech,SaaS,Technology

Cloud computing could become mainstream with Google’s annoucement this week to release the Chrome operating system for NetBook PCs. I believe the cloud is the platform of the future, and Google is uniquely poised with their already popular office suite, Google Docs, and their other Google Apps which do just about everything owners of netbooks [...]

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A Father of Netscape Begins a Silicon Valley Venture Firm

by Erik on July 7, 2009

in Funding,New Ventures,Uncertainty

photo credit: J0nB0n The man who popularized the Web browser has started a venture capital fund to back the next generation of new technologies. Marc Andreessen, who co-founded Netscape, is announcing on Monday that he and Ben Horowitz, a longtime business associate, have raised $300 million that they intend to invest in technology companies. The [...]

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Teenage Entrepreneurs, Building Their Own Job Engine

by Erik on July 6, 2009

in Economy,Entrepreneurship,Jobs,Recession,Unemployment

Unemployment for 16- to 19-year-olds is at its highest rate since 1992 — at 22.7 percent in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is causing some teenagers to rethink their notion of work and to embrace entrepreneurship. “This is a generation raised to believe they can do anything, and the first to [...]

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Clean Energy and the Future

by Erik on July 6, 2009

in Alternative Energy,Asia,Economy,Green Tech,IBM,Sustainability,Technology

photo credit: Ennor (computer problems) Thomas Friedman is an interesting man. For one, his book on globalization: The World Is Flat was mandatory reading at Lehigh in an intro course to Information Systems, and caused a great deal of debate on the topic during many a class session. But, his current op-ed in the New [...]

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