Top electronic commerce tips August 19, 2012 Six ways to ensure your business profits from the internet ACHIEVING success in e-commerce is not easy. Here are six key points to consider when building an effective e-commerce strategy. 1. USE A GOOD ANALYTICS TOOL Before embarking on any new marketing or design changes, ensure you can measure the impact. Even basic knowledge of [...]
How to protect your ideas with help from the British Library August 19, 2012 IF YOU have an idea, and want to turn it into a business, you really need to be fully prepared and understand how precious your intellectual property is. When bringing an innovative product to market, it’s crucial that the right measures are taken to protect that idea from day one. It’s a dog eat dog [...]
Twitterati blazing a trail to follow August 19, 2012 TWITTER isn’t for everyone. But for those plugged into the social media tool, the tweeters below provide a base onto which to build your own following. UK entrepreneurs Check out: @richardbranson (founder, Virgin), @kingofshaves (founder, King of Shaves) and @dougrichard (former Dragon), @shaawasmund (founder, Smarta.com). US entrepreneurs Check out: @SteveCase (co-founder of AOL), @GuyKawasaki (co-founder [...]
FTSE 100 treads water as investors sit on their hands August 16, 2012 UK equities steadied near four-month highs yesterday and technical resistance levels kept a lid on gains with investors unwilling to push the market further pending harder evidence that policymakers will deliver more long-awaited stimulus. The benchmark FTSE 100 index closed flat at 5,834.51 , around 50 points below an intra-day peak hit on Tuesday. Volumes [...]
S&P surges to 4-month high boosted by Cisco August 16, 2012 THE S&P 500 closed at its highest in more than four months yesterday on signs of German support for the European Central Bank’s effort to fight the region’s debt crisis, and as Cisco Systems led gains in the tech sector after a dividend hike. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 85.33 points, or 0.65 per [...]
FTSE 100 slips lower as investors wait for fresh stimulus from central banks August 15, 2012 TOP shares fell yesterday in sluggish volumes as weakness in index heavyweights such as miners, tobaccos and Vodafone outstripped gains in financials. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index closed down 31.74 points or 0.5 per cent at 5,833.04, erasing the previous session’s gains and fluctuating in a tight range between 5,800 and 5,900 in volumes just [...]
S&P maintains upward shifts on low trading August 15, 2012 US stocks spent another session in a tight range yesterday, with the S&P 500 ending a few points higher and extending a rally that seems to be happening in slow motion. The benchmark S&P 500 index finished just a hair away from its highest close in three months, but with earnings season winding down and [...]
FTSE rises on hope of stimulus and jumps in bank and energy stocks August 14, 2012 STRENGTH in risk-sensitive energy and financial stocks hauled Britain’s leading share index higher yesterday, as investors continued to focus on hopes for fresh stimulus measures from central banks to spur global growth. These hopes were balanced by second-quarter GDP data from France and Germany which came in above forecasts, easing concerns about the Eurozone’s two [...]
Retailers pick up during light Wall St trading August 14, 2012 US stocks ended little changed yesterday in what investors described as a fatigued market after the S&P 500 rose in seven of the past eight sessions. Retailers were a notable standout after Home Depot raised its profit forecast due to improvement in the housing market and US retail sales data that was stronger than expected, [...]
US stocks dip on Japanese growth data August 13, 2012 US stocks ended slightly lower yesterday as fatigue set in after a six-day rally and disappointing Japanese growth data provided a fresh reminder of the headwinds facing the global economy. The benchmark S&P 500 index had risen three per cent over the prior six sessions, its longest rally since December 2010. But gains had slowed, [...]