Tag Archives : money

How many of you have had to cancel your purchases on account of your plastic money malfunction? We are not talking about zero bank balance (though that indeed is a major factor when it comes to shopping) but the more than often troubles with the connection hampering with the payment transaction. In other words, plastic money may bring you the promise [...]

The researchers, the industrial designers, the innovators keep trying out interesting options. The development in technology keeps opening newer possibility. Can a new application give you a new product that is useful or at least fun? Is the proposed new product commercially viable? Or the cost of development and production takes it beyond the reach [...]

Ning, a social network that allows you to make your own social network, is coming to an end – at least as we knew it. The ability to create social networks for free within the tool will be annulled. To use the service now will have to pay. And communities that already exist will be wiped out if the owner did not want to spend money. Simple like [...]

Facebook, the social network that already has more than 400 million users expected to reach the mark of $ 1 billion in revenue in 2010, an amount too high for a social network. Last year, the company earned about $ 550 million in campaigns for brands and advertising, according to information from the site Read Write Web. For 2010, the bet is on Facebook [...]

Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas have agreed to do the sequel of the film ‘Wall Street’ (1987). Fox Studios is also negotiating with actor Shia LaBeouf for a role in the film. Allan Loeb wrote the screenplay. Ed Pressman, producer of the original film, will likewise finance the sequel. Filming is expected to start this summer. Douglas, 64, won [...]

While the current recession may be pinching them a bit, some of the world’s billionaires see the proverbial silver lining in the global economic rain clouds. Credit their healthy outlook on money, maybe. They earned their billions, so what can stop them from earning more? – well, only the (real) end of the world, perhaps. Forbes magazine released [...]

Recession may not be best times to promote credits cards but world’s leading credit card brand, Visa, is all set to launch its new campaign on American Idol on Wednesday. The first two ads of the series, ‘Let’s go’ and ‘Aquarium’ will go on air followed by print campaign and online promotion will be made by an interactive microsite Visa.com/go. Visa [...]

As would be obvious to most by now, entire business enterprises that market and sell the foretelling of things to come can go on the up and up. Ronald and Nancy Reagan were known to be close followers of what their psychic said and advised. Unfortunately, the much-consulted seer missed to foresee the huge deficits that Reaganomics brought to America. [...]

The world goes haywire, that’s for sure. Money is beneficial in its utilitarian role. It is also meant to be circulated so that an economy can thrive. Problems start when people keep their money, instead of bringing it back into circulation as it should be. But the rich wouldn’t have become so without stashing their money in banks to grow interest [...]

Believe it or not, there is such a scientific field of study as Behavioral Economics. It wants to find out why you deal with money the way you do. Of course, it doesn’t stop there. It also makes recommendations on how you can stop managing your finances as crazily as you have. In other words, it is meant to end this insanity we all have with cash. Scrimping [...]