Britain’s Channel Islands gaming commission stated plans to shut down Full Tilt Poker–perhaps the world’s most popular poker website. This comes on the heals of the major US crackdown of poker websites–straining this online industry. The Full Tilt company has been in the process of  wooing potential investors and lenders for funds that will help [...]

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NYC Business Network just published a an article that outlines the top 5 customer service tips for small business owners. The article is part of their Business Tips section, which offers how-to type information is a digestible and simple format for business owners who don’t have time to read a book on the subject and [...]

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Ironpaper launches the NYCBusinessNetwork.org, which is a marketing tool for small and medium sized businesses and non-profit organizations in the New York City area. The Network supports three primary feature-sets: A member network of business profile listings, which is a paid service to help promote and create visibility for businesses and organizations as a form [...]

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By summer, Google may roll out Chrome OS laptops that can be rented with a monthly subscription price of $10 to $20. The business goal for Google is to get more people using it’s services and interacting with Google advertising, which is the company’s bread and butter. Certainly a cheap, cloud-computing dedicated computer paid for [...]

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Facebook is close to trademarking the word “Face” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. On Tuesday, Facebook was notified that it can proceed to the next phase of the trademark process by illustrating the term’s usage in the real world and online way once it has become a trademarked term. The trademark for [...]

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Yahoo’s net income has nearly doubled from a year ago. The company’s current revenue is $396 million up from $186 million. The tremendous growth in revenue was attributed to the HotJobs website. Carol A. Bartz was hired as CEO to help the company out of a period of stagnation, and it appears to be working. [...]

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Starbucks has finally begun to offer free wifi. The no-charge, limitation-free and no-registration wifi initiative will take place in both the US and in Canada. Starbucks has been working on it’s own network, called Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo!. The idea of the network will be to offer a seamless entertainment service for [...]

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Facebook’s 2009 revenue was almost 800 million, according to a report by Reuters. Facebook also turned part of that revenue into solid net profit. This revenue is higher than previous estimates of 500 million. “They are downplaying their performance…” stated one Reuters source. If Facebook is heading towards an IPO, than they would be better [...]

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Google is now going to allow third party web developers to build apps that work within their Gmail service. This new plan will allow Google Apps customers add various third-party applications. Yahoo mail already has a few limited third party applications that integrate with it’s web mail application from PayPal and Facebook. The goal in [...]

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The popular online classified ad service, Craigslist, has been subpoenaed by Connecticut’s attorney general over sex ads that appear in it’s listings. The attorney general says that Craigslist is not doing enough to stop prostitution online, and that the company is even profiting from the sex ads. Currently, there are 39 states looking into the [...]

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