Extreme Soccer
Ten Good Reasons Not To Buy A Franchise
Excellent advice from Nolo on why you may be better off investing your time and money elsewhere:
1. Questionable profitability.
Most franchisers do not provide much information to potential franchisees regarding earnings possibilities, making it difficult to assess how lucrative investment in the company could be. Even the franchisers who do supply this information usually give only average sales figures and profits before expenses are deducted, numbers that aren’t very ...
Comments Off
Piracy 2.0: hijacking the entire brand
While product piracy and counterfeiting becomes increasingly widespread, another dimension has reared itself: brand hijacking or corporate identity theft. Most counterfeiting usually centres on specific products within industries like electronic hardware, software, or luxury goods, not the companies themselves. With personal identity theft, the thief assumes the identity of the victim by utilizing personal information (social insurance number, credit card details, etc). The corporate version involves organizations ...
Comments Off
Datagraphic candy: Africa
Some candy for all infographic/datagraphy pimps out there. Also for those with the ignorant habit of referring to Africa as one country rather than as a continent containing 61 specific countries/territories; school yourself with this comparative map via Hash:
And while you're at ...
Comments Off
Missed Dubai? Get Qatar then!
Those who missed the China trade boat (early fishers get the best dibs) are latching onto the India services train. Likewise, if you missed the Dubai money/real estate flight, you can still catch the Qatar resources rocket. The tiny gulf nation is due to overtake Switzerland's per capita GDP next year and ...
Comments Off
N’Orleans: It ain’t over until it’s over.
From random looting to architectural theft in New Orleans:
Professional photographer Keith Calhoun is resigned to the hurricane that destroyed his studio. And he has even reconciled himself to the pilfering of negatives he had stored there. But what has him spitting nails is the recent looting of the fat cypress beams that had kept his Victorian-era building standing -- and that would ...
Comments Off
Pimp this: Russian Lawyer latte-whips Starbucks
Got to love his opportunism!
"For Seattle-based Starbucks Corporation, famous for its coffee beverages, Zuykov has for a long time represented a barrier to entry on the Russian market. This Russian lawyer who registered the Starbucks brand for himself said he acted in accordance with Russian laws. ...
Comments Off
Riots in France: one perspective
Interesting insight to the socio-political landscape that frames the riots. Specifically:
"A French employee works 30% fewer hours than a British worker, and a much smaller percentage of the French population than the British works at all, yet total French output is very nearly equal in value to British. In other words, the French are much more efficient economically than the British. But their relative efficiency has been bought at a ...
Comments Off
One downside of pimping your school name
Canada’s Queen's School of Business has announced that it is returning a $1m donation from David Radler and stripping his name from a wing of its business school. Mr Radler, a former right-hand man of Conrad Black at Hollinger International, faces 29 months in prison for his role in a $32m fraud at the media conglomerate.
This comes soon after an announcement in August by Seton Hall University in New Jersey ...
Comments Off
Yahoo to earth: it’s always about the ka-ching!
"Yahoo has suffered a good deal of opprobrium since it was revealed last month that, when government officials came calling, the company's Hong Kong division simply surrendered information on a Chinese citizen who had presumably sought refuge, anonymity and a bit of freedom in the bosom of a Yahoo e-mail address: huoyan1989@yahoo.com.cn.
Shi Tao, the journalist using that address, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sharing ...
Comments Off