Bank Loans for Small Businesses.

Traditionally, banks are more conservative with their investment dollars. Unlike many venture capitalists or angel investors, they are far more likely to approve a loan for an established business over a startup or emerging company. This is largely due to the fact that they are investing the money of their depositors.

However, thanks to government agencies such as the Small Business Administration (SBA), which work with many banks, small business owners can get business loans from banks with a strong business plan and well-prepared business loan request. Moreover, banks are more likely to give modest-sized loans, whereas venture capitalists are looking for much larger deals.

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Paymo: Harnessing a Global Mobile Payments Market

Paymo: Harnessing a Global Mobile Payments Market
The global economy is changing. For many consumers, the credit card crunch is crumbling their ability to buy things online. In many countries outside the U.S., consumers do not have credit cards but rely instead on smart cards to swipe transactions directly through their banks. [More...]

Does Oracle's Sun Deal Mean Dark Clouds for Big Blue?

Does Oracle's Sun Deal Mean Dark Clouds for Big Blue?

If it goes through without a hitch, Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems, announced Monday, could fill significant gaps in the database vendor's offerings. In addition to getting technologies in hot areas such as virtualization and cloud computing, Oracle will get access to patents that could prove to be cash cows. Sun's MySQL open source database and its strong services and support organizations will also help lengthen Oracle's reach. Taken together, Sun's technologies and capabilities could make Oracle even more of a threat to IBM. [More...]

U.S. Economy > Labor

U.S. Economy > Labor:

About 146 million people in the United States were working in paid jobs at the end of 2006, with another 7 million unemployed; the 153 million total makes up the world's third largest labor force, after China's and India's. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. working-age people participate in the labor force. Males and females each account for about half. About 15 percent of them are foreign born. Some 5 to 6 percent of them work more than one job.

The private sector employs most U.S. workers, 85.5 percent, and governments employ the rest. A lot of people are self-employed, more than 10 million in 2005, although some of them split their time between working for other people and for themselves. Most working people work for someone else in nearly 6 million U.S. companies. Most of these companies have fewer than 20 employees. More ......

Foreign Trade

Foreign Trade

U.S. foreign trade and global economic policies have changed direction dramatically during the more than two centuries that the United States has been a country. In the early days of the nation's history, government and business mostly concentrated on developing the domestic economy irrespective of what went on abroad. But since the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II, the country generally has sought to reduce trade barriers and coordinate the world economic system. Americans are convinced that trade promotes economic growth, social stability, and democracy in individual countries and that it advances world prosperity, the rule of law, and peace in international relations. More>>>>

Basic Conditions & Resources

Basic Conditions & Resources

The first ingredient of a nation's economic system is its natural resources. The United States is rich in mineral resources and fertile farm soil, and it is blessed with a moderate climate. The second ingredient is labor, which converts natural resources into goods. The number of available workers and, more importantly, their productivity help determine the health of an economy. Labor-force quality continues to be an important issue. Today, Americans consider "human capital" a key to success in numerous modern, high-technology industries. As a result, government leaders and business officials increasingly stress the importance of education and training to develop workers with the kind of nimble minds and adaptable skills needed in new industries such as computers and telecommunications. Links......

U.S. Economy

U.S. Economy

When the United States sneezes, an economists' proverb says, the rest of the world catches a cold.

Between 1995 and 2005, the United States accounted directly for one-third of global economic expansion, according to the nonprofit Council on Competitiveness. Between 1983 and 2004, soaring U.S. imports added nearly 20 percent of the increase of the world's exports. "Developing countries accounted for an increasing share of U.S. exports, 32.8 percent in 1985 versus 47.0 percent in 2006," a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report says. "Developing countries accounted for 34.5 percent of U.S. imports in 1985 and 54.7 percent ... in 2006." Link>>>>>

E-Commerce

The convergence of computer and telecommunications technologies has revolutionized how we get, store, retrieve, and share information. Consumers now routinely use computer networks to identify sellers, evaluate products and services, compare prices, and exert market leverage. Electronic commerce (e-commerce) are business processes which shift transactions to the Internet. E-commerce is growing at a rapid rate. The value of e-commerce transactions, while still small relative to the size of the U.S. economy, continues to show strong growth despite a recent economic downturn. More significant than the dollar amount of these transactions, however, are the new business processes. Many new Internet-based companies and traditional producers of goods and services are working to transform their business processes into e-commerce processes in an effort to lower costs, improve customer service, and increase productivity, with varying degrees of success.
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Top 10s and More.

What are the best- and worst-rated cars and automakers in fuel economy, initial quality, customer service and other categories? Check the rankings before deciding on your next vehicle. Link........

Plot

From left to right: Chick Hicks, Lightning McQueen, and The King.

The last race of the Piston Cup stock car racing season ends in a three-way dead heat between retiring veteran Strip "The King" Weathers, perennial runner-up and dirty fighter Chick Hicks, and the self-centered rookie Lightning McQueen. A tiebreaker race is scheduled for one week later at the Los Angeles International Speedway. McQueen, eager to start practice in California as soon as possible in order to become Piston Cup champion and take The King's place as the sponsored car of the lucrative Dinoco team, pushes his driver Mack to travel all night long. Mack tries to avoid falling asleep, but becomes a victim of a gang of reckless street racers, subsequently causing the sleeping McQueen to roll out of the back of the truck unnoticed. Waking up in traffic, McQueen speeds off to find Mack, but becomes lost and ends up in the run-down town of Radiator Springs. A mishap with the local sheriff causes McQueen to inadvertently tear up the town's main road. McQueen is arrested then tried the next day by the town's judge and doctor, Doc Hudson, who at first wants him to leave immediately; at the insistence of local lawyer Sally Carrera, Doc instead sentences him to repave the road as community service.

Testing the American Jets: F106

Reproduced from : AEROPLANE MONTHLY

Legendary fighter- and test-pilot Roland 'Bee' Beamont, who died on November 19 2001, was a distinguished RAF 'Battle of Britain' pilot. He went on to fly Typhoons and Tempests over Europe and subsequently to became English Electric's chief test pilot. 'Bee' took the Canberra and the Lightning through their test programmes and later piloted the ill-fated TSR.2 on its maiden flight. He flew numerous British and American jet types in the course of his career and, during the 1980s, recounted his experiences for 'Aeroplane Monthly' readers in a series of detailed articles. Details----->

The Blogger Tips to be sold at 1 Million Dollar

The Blogger Tips to be sold at 1 Million Dollar

I have decided to sell this site TheBlogertips.com at USD 1 Million. Anybody interested in this deal may contact me at laikweelin at gmail dot com or http://thebloggertips.com/contact/ Thanks!

Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008

Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 report which has been released in five consecutive daily segments. Since 2004, the Technorati annual study has unearthed and analyzed the trends and themes of blogging, but for the 2008 study, Technorati resolved to go beyond the numbers of the Technorati Index to deliver even deeper insights into the blogging mind. For the first time, they surveyed bloggers directly about the role of blogging in their lives, the tools, time, and resources used to produce their blogs, and how blogging has impacted them personally, professionally, and financially. The technorati bloggers were generous with their thoughts and insights. Link>>>>>

Multinational rotary wings

Multinational rotary wings

Ploce – Versatility is the characteristic that best describes helicopter units; they can perform so many different missions that sometimes is quite difficult to classify them. From direct combat to combat support, without forgetting medical evacuations (MEDEVAC), liaison, search and rescue (SAR) and airborne post command, only the meteorological conditions could stop it. Link.............

“GAP 09”: EDA conducts a multinational helicopters exercise

“GAP 09”: EDA conducts a multinational helicopters exercise