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"Almost Half of Small Businesses Find Customers in Social Networks"

"International business requires an international network. Here are some good tips to create a global social presence."

"The new mobile tools that Facebook unveiled today for third-party developers offer enormous opportunities for outside companies, whether they're game developers or brick-and-mortar businesses such as hotels or clothing stores. They also tie those companies closer to the social network -- in ways that might be uncomfortable for some. Here are some of the promises of the new features-and one peril:"

Interesting story about the state of the music business

"Apple jumped into the social networking business on Wednesday, introducing Ping, a service built into iTunes that is intended to help users discover new music and, presumably, buy more songs from Apple. "

T-Mobile International Music Category Manager, Luke Magnuson, explains how the company's music offering has grown, its strong relationship with Sony Ericsson, and the ground-breaking deal with Robbie Williams. Magnuson also suggest thatT-Mobile's music business may shift to a flat-rate or ad-funded model.

"Dream and Achieve" is an interesting example of how the popular reality TV entertainment genre can be used as a vehicle for social change - in this case, in Afghanistan. The series aired across 13 weeks in 2008, with 20 contestants from all over the country filmed in real time as they worked with seasoned business consultants to build their dream enterprises.

Mapeas is a new service for geographically exploring the news on sports, entertainment, business, science, and general news stories by clicking on a world map. Stories are provided by ABC, NBC, Fox, the Associated Press, and AFP.

Oakley enters the 3-D business with 3-D technology special edition Tron-themed glasses to be retailed worldwide. The company is developing high-quality, passive 3-D glasses that work in theaters, with 3-D video games, and with any passive 3-D TV set of any brand.

"Keeping cash on hand is becoming less of a priority, even for cash loving Russian consumers, with mobile payments increasingly important on the Russian market and operators seeing it as a major revenues base. "

Here is a very interesting article on the "dark side" of Google searches.

And what about employers? What do they want? According to national surveys, they want to hire 22-year-olds who can write coherently, think creatively and analyze quantitative data, and they're perfectly happy to hire English or biology majors.