Specialization is the way of the future (Investment Executive) What one thing will be most dramatically different in this business five years from now, compared with today? This question was asked after I spoke at a recent conference of financial advisors about what it will take to succeed in the future....more...OTravel.com, Inc. Renamed Mountain Reservations, Inc. and Takes on New Executive Leadership (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) OTravel.com, Inc., formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc. was purchased Wednesday by an affiliate of Kinderhook Industries and Castles Media Company....more... In pursuit of high returns (The Globe and Mail) In Calgary, a 36-year-old woman we'll called Sally has built up three careers: one in marketing, one in high tech and one in the hospitality industry. As a sideline, she is a landlord. All together, her enterprises generate an annual gross income of $98,000....more... �He� signs out with some last minute tips (Old Gold and Black) �Never start an article with a quote. It�s unoriginal and clich�d. It�s lazy.� -Professor Mary Niepold, from my first journalism class at the university �What a long, strange trip it�s been.� -Robert Hunter Well, more of a long, strange, sexual trip � writing this year�s column....more... On The Scene (indieWIRE) 04/26/07 - FESTIVALS | Looking Back at 50 Years of San Francisco International Film Festival History--And Going Forward by B. Rubly Rich (April 26, 2007) [Editor's note: SF360.org, where this article first appeared, is copublished by the SF Film Society and indieWIRE....more... Income tax takes top billing as SNP accused of blunder (The Scotsman) THE SNP yesterday refused to rule out tax rises in an independent Scotland, prompting political rivals to claim it had scored an economics "own goal"....more... Ottawa's 2007 Fastest Growing Companies at a glance (Ottawa Business Journal) QMR Staffing Solutions Inc....more... Salmond fishing for Scots politics' biggest prize (The Scotsman) HE wants to scrap the Capital's trams scheme and the rail link to the airport if he holds the levers of power after May 3....more... Outrage as Salmond brands Labour opponents 'anti-Scottish' (The Scotsman) ALEX Salmond last night branded his Labour opponents anti-Scottish, prompting a furious counter-claim that he had plumbed new depths in the search for votes....more... |