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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Outsourcing Trend Grows As Companies Cut Costs
    As companies face the challenge of improving productivity and efficiency with ever-shrinking budgets, the need for outsourcing certain operations has grown. And ironically, although digital technologies become more important in business, the idea of a paperless office seems more distant than ever.
  • Performance Contracting Helps Save on Energy Costs
    As soaring energy costs increasingly affect the bottom line of U.S. businesses, the "energy performance contract" has become an attractive solution for commercial building owners. This contract is a financing or operating lease offered by an energy service company, also known as an ESCO, to help businesses improve the energy efficiency of their buildings or facilities.
  • Point and Click Your Financial Plan
    You've organized the contents of that bulging shoebox and tracked down the stray receipts lurking in jacket pockets. Now you're ready to point and click your way to what you hope will be a generous tax refund.
  • Precious Metals Heat Up; Silver Set to Join Gold
    For the last two years, I have been purchasing and recommending precious metals against an inevitable currency crisis. Since my last report, gold has added another $50 per ounce and is now topping $600.
  • Private Companies Weigh Employee Stock Options
    This is a great opportunity to show your employees the value they bring to your company. Just imagine if employees could actually see quantifiable gains and losses in the value of the company through their efforts.
  • Private Investment: Explore the Revolution
    The creation of the Entrex private marketplace is an important milestone for two reasons. It gives accredited investors like yourself a place where they can invest thoughtfully in private companies. For the private companies themselves, it is nothing less than a new source of capital. But let's get back to you.
  • Public Companies Provide New Disclosures to Investors
    Investors in the nation's publicly traded companies now have access to an unprecedented level of corporate information when companies issue their annual reports. For the first time ever, these reports include details about a company's internal control over financial reporting.
  • Public Companies to Provide New Disclosures to Investors
    Investors in the nation's publicly traded companies will soon have access to an unprecedented level of corporate information when companies issue their annual reports, which, for the first time ever, will include details about their internal control over financial reporting and provide a greater degree of transparency.
  • Rapid Prototyping Revolution
    In the past, any new consumer or industrial product part brought to market had to first have a prototype built to ensure that the design could be properly applied and used by the manufacturer. Years ago, these were often wooden miniatures and clay models. More recently, laser-sintering technology has allowed plastic samples to be built from CAD/CAM electronic drawings and powdered resin.
  • Roll Over Your IRA for A More Secure Future
    The convenience of 401(k)s and other employer-sponsored retirement plans have turned many Americans into investors. That's good news, since it is becoming evident that fewer retirees in the future will have substantial pensions and more will have to rely on their own savings to cover their needs.
  • Roll-Up Bag Irons Out Wrinkle Problem
    Savvy travelers know the trick of rolling their clothes when they pack to reduce wrinkles and save space.
  • Rules of Growth For Small Businesses
    For years, I have tried to answer this one question: What do small businesses that achieve sustained growth do differently from those that do not grow?
  • Selling Items Online? How To Ensure They Arrive Safely
    When the Internet first gained notoriety, who would have thought that someone in Tokyo could buy a chandelier from someone in Des Moines online?
  • Shop Today, Invest for Tomorrow
    Between paying a stream of monthly bills, buying groceries, filling up the gas tank and managing countless other daily expenses, it's becoming more and more difficult for the average American to save for the big things: a college education, a new home, retirement.
  • Site Offers Free Xbox With Membership
    Video games may be nothing more than evening diversions to most Americans, but the industry as a whole is a multibillion-dollar heavyweight. And now enthusiasts can play for free if they know where to look on the Internet.
  • Small Business: Affordable Health Benefits Key Concern
    Health care benefits have become more expensive in recent years, which puts them out of reach for many Americans. Of the more than 45 million Americans who are uninsured, nearly 60 percent are employed by small businesses.
  • Small Businesses Benefit From Web Competition
    While word of mouth attracted new users, it was not until it won Best Family Web site in last year's WebAward competition that things took off for the Family Cookbook Project.
  • Small-Business Owners See Benefits of Banking Online
    As it becomes easier and more convenient to bank online, small-business owners are increasingly turning to Internet banks to alleviate some of their financial headaches.
  • 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.
  • Small-Business Servers Support Telecommuters
    More Americans are showing they can get their jobs done from just about anywhere outside the office. And as some businesses expand in size and geographic scope, they are finding new technology to help employees who telecommute.
  • Smart Moves for Retirement
    With health care costs continuing to increase, the future of Social Security unclear and pension plans available to fewer and fewer workers, America's retirement readiness is a major concern for both individuals and the nation as a whole.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Study: Consumer-Driven Health Plans on the Horizon
    Health care costs have continued to skyrocket and every politician, business owner and employee is trying to find ways to cut costs.
  • Study: Many Lack Basic Investment Knowledge
    According to American Century Investments' "On Plan I.Q. Quiz," a 10-question test taken by more than 800 investors, knowledge of some of the most basic investment concepts is poor. On average, participants selected about half of the correct responses on the multiple-choice test, which was given to individuals who have investments outside of a company retirement plan.

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