News in the online world this week has been dominated by Google’s unveiling of their long anticipated social play dubbed Google+. Headlines wonder if this is their answer to slow Facebook’s growing dominance in the social space. The company is rolling Google+ out in limited trial, so it may be a while before everyone can [...]
Here’s a concept that most readers of financial blogs will be familiar with – buy term and invest the difference. It’s a concept that came in to fashion in the 1980′s and is still going strong in some corners of the financial world. The end decision in all cases behind this concept though, is that [...]
Ratings agency Standards and Poor’s have poured more fuel on the sovereign debt crisis in Europe by a further downgrade of Greece’s credit rating. S and P has dropped Greece’s rating by a further three notches to CCC making it the worst credit “risk” of all of the world’s developed nations. Standard and Poor’s have [...]
What happens when you get a tax refund direct deposited in your bank account? Well, you spend the money (or invest it, etc.). But what if that isn’t your refund? Well, that’s a problem. Earlier this year I reported on individuals in Ohio who were notified that they would receive $200,000,000 refunds. The letters were [...]
Reputation management and listening in to what’s being said online in your industry are staple items for today’s marketer. I’ve been promoting tools like Google Alerts and Google Reader for years now and today Google added something called “Me on the Web” as an attempt to make it easier to monitor your identity on the [...]