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  • Stock Alert Program Satisfies Need for Speed
    Online investing continues to be popular among consumers, due in part to the fact that it meets most Americans' requirements - it's fast, easy and convenient.
  • Help Is on the Way for 401(k) Investors
    More employers are educating workers on 401(k) plans - from the benefits of tax-deferred growth to the importance of consistent saving. However, research shows that employees are still in the dark when it comes to investing their assets.
  • Angel Investors Bring Big Ideas to Reality
    If you're an emerging company with the next great product, sometimes you need an angel on your side.
  • Mathematician Re-engineers Quilting
    During her career as a software engineer, Marci Baker solved difficult mathematical problems. When she became a stay-at-home mom, she turned to solving another problem involving precision and speed: "How do you make a traditional quilt in one-tenth the time?"
  • Financial Education Can Pay Dividends for Youth
    According to statistics from the National Council on Economic Education, only seven states require high school students to take a personal finance course while eight others require courses with personal finance content.
  • What's Really Driving Your Portfolio Performance?
    Many investors tend to focus on selecting the right stock to buy and choosing the perfect time to buy and sell. But some experts say these factors are a sure-fire way to damage portfolio performance.
  • Small-Business Servers Increase Efficiency
    As small businesses expand in size and geographic scope, they often find it difficult to make technology available to employees in all locations. Today, however, many are finding that by installing small-business servers, they're reaching more people in more places. They're also increasing productivity, profitability and efficiency while decreasing costs.
  • International Investing: It Makes Sense
    Of the world's 40,000 publicly traded companies, 77 percent are located abroad, a pretty good sign that there are compelling investment opportunities outside the United States. Viewed another way, 51 percent of the world's $38 trillion total market capitalization belongs to the international arena. U.S. mutual funds hold $491 billion in overseas investments.
  • U.S.-traded Company Sets Up Chinese E-government
    An American company in China? It may seem unusual, but a U.S.-traded company is building an e-government system in Jinjiang and Nanan of the Fujian province in the People's Republic of China.
  • Watch Your Business From Anywhere in the World
    When most people think of video surveillance, they think of cameras in stores.

    But many businesses are using them to keep track of meetings and ensure clients and business associates stand behind their word. Cameras can also provide proof of wrongdoing, connecting the dots when people are where they shouldn't be.
  • Study Shows Americans Need to Get Financially Fit
    Most Americans lack basic understanding when it comes to their credit score and personal finance, according to the results of a survey by consumer advocacy group Consumer Action and financial services provider Capital One.
  • Innovative Solutions for Internet Branding
    Since the advent of the Internet, computers have changed the way people work, play and communicate.
  • Company Helps Families With Home Ownership
    As the stock market remains bearish and portfolios continue to make only minor gains, the demand for homes has never been higher.
  • Oil Production May Be At Its Peak, Experts Say
    Anyone who has recently visited a gas station has felt the pinch of the impending oil crisis by having to pay more than $3 per gallon for gas.
  • Solving Holiday Shopping Woes
    Finding the perfect gift for that hard-to-buy-for husband, sister-in-law, nephew or pal is an annual challenge for holiday shoppers. Searching through shopping malls or clicking through hundreds of Web sites can dampen even the highest holiday spirits.
  • UPS Helps Camping Company Keep Up With Santa's Elves
    Wondering what to get that special outdoor enthusiast this holiday season? New Hampshire-based Jetboil came up with something for campers worried about Jack Frost nipping at their noses.
  • Oil Partnerships: How to Protect Your Investment
    As burgeoning economies push the demand for oil to historic highs, some analysts say the world's oil production is in the process of peaking. Believing that an oil crisis -and, thus, higher prices - is inevitable, some investors are seeing dollar signs in their future.
  • Software Takes Online Trading to Next Level
    Online brokers are offering better features today, even as fierce competition leads them to charge less than ever before. More sophisticated software-based trading tools are emerging as an alternative to traditional Web site transactions.
  • AMC, University of Colorado Cancer Centers Merge
    The AMC Cancer Research Center has merged with the University of Colorado Cancer Center, a step designed to help both organizations in their efforts to fight the disease.
  • Office Communication: Tips to Stay Connected
    Want your office to run as smoothly as possible? The first step involves improving communication.
  • Firm Guides Parents Through College Savings Plans
    According to a survey conducted by the New York-based College Board, college tuition costs are rising faster than the pace of inflation. Between 1993 and 2003, for example, the average cost of tuition and fees for four years rose 47 percent at public colleges and 42 percent at private institutions.
  • Online Trading Speeds Up
    Online trading flourished during the dot-com boom and remains a popular way for individual investors to manage their portfolios. Long gone are the days when one needed to call a stockbroker to trade stock and the high fees associated with such one-on-one transactions.
  • Tips on Conducting a Successful Presentation
    Whether you're a student, a full-time employee or the head of a book club, there is one task that is hard to avoid: public speaking.
  • Competition Between Online Brokers
    There's much to learn about the online brokerage industry. Unfortunately, many investors learn this the hard way.
  • The Road Block To Your Investing Success
    Investors today face a barrage of conflicting information and exaggerated return claims from what most people consider the "market" -; the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But these indexes only comprise about 12 percent of all U.S. stocks. The reality is that these stocks can't be predicted with any consistency, especially long-term.
  • Online Trading Puts You Ahead Of Conventional Investors
    Back in the old days, trading was handled by brokers who worked with their clients on ways to best improve their portfolios.

    But since the advent of the Internet, and more specifically online trading, the days of needing someone else to make your investments are quickly receding into the past.
  • Buyers Not on Vacation In Sizzling Resort Market
    The phenomenal real estate boom of the past several years has not been confined to sales of primary residences alone. Sales of second homes also have ratcheted up dramatically as vacationers and investors look to snap up these properties amid the lure of low mortgage rates and rapidly increasing home values.
  • Office Buildings: Owners Using New Warning System
    In light of terrorist attacks, anthrax scares and similar threats, office building owners are now faced with a daunting task - keeping their buildings safe and secure.
  • Now May Be the Time To Go Into Dividends
    Soaring technology stocks led the longest bull market in history during the 1990s, driving investors to shun stocks of dividend-paying firms.
  • Study: 800 Numbers Still Popular With Advertisers
    Despite growth of the Internet over the past seven years, the use of toll-free phone numbers in television advertising continues to grow, indicating that the telephone remains a prevalent response tool, according to a recent study.

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