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To Payroll or Not: Hiring Contract vs. Salary Employees

Posted July 31, 2009 - 19:19 by Nora Dunn

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You have some projects coming down the pipe that you need additional staff for. What do you do: offer your potential new team player an independent contract or full-time salary position?

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AMEX Small Business Profile: Stacy Debroff, MomCentral.com

Posted July 30, 2009 - 18:12 by Linsey Knerl

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We caught up with Stacy recently to get the inside scoop on her unique success story.

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xkcd & Imgur joins 4chan battle vs. AT&T

Posted July 26, 2009 - 23:17 by Will Chen

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AT&T has effectively pissed off the mob and the net intelligentsia. Good luck folks!

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How to Get Emails from the President

Posted July 24, 2009 - 06:52 by Elizabeth Sanberg

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White House Email

I got an email from President Obama yesterday. Did you? The email was from a whitehouse.gov address, not democrats.org or another political site. So, if you were one of the 13 million people on President Barack Obama's campaign email list, you are not automatically on his White House mailing list.

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Life Insurance for Your Business

Posted July 17, 2009 - 18:26 by Nora Dunn

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Insurance protection

As a business owner, you probably already own more insurance policies than you ever imagined you would: liability, contents, vehicles, and any number of policies are often strict necessities. Heck, you may even have a pet insurance policy. However none of these forms of insurance actually protect the life of your business. Only these two forms of life insurance can be used to protect your business when the going gets tough.

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Shareholder’s Agreement: What It Is and Why You Need to Review Your Own

Posted June 30, 2009 - 18:22 by Nora Dunn

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business partners

Life happens while we are busy making plans, and sometimes life’s happenings can throw us curve balls that will affect not only our relationships, but the business. Disabilities, untimely deaths, marriage breakdown, and simple falling-out between partners can mean disaster if these scenarios (and others) have not been given due consideration. Also known as a Buy-Sell Agreement, a Shareholder’s Agreement is designed to help you and your business navigate life’s tricky twists and turns. Here are 10 common clauses to look for in your Shareholder's Agreement.

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Philip Brewer's fiction

Posted March 2, 2009 - 10:44 by Philip Brewer

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Philip Brewer with beret and cat

This post won't go up on the front page at Wise Bread; only people who subscribe to my posts via the RSS feed or email should see it. Even for you guys, I'll keep it short, because this isn't about personal finance or frugality. It's about my fiction: I sold a story!

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Three reasons to stop freaking out about socialism

Posted October 29, 2008 - 15:20 by Andrea Dickson

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Red menace

McCain-Palin are trying to paint the Obama-Biden ticket as a bunch of socialist nutjobs. But 'socialism' isn't nearly the red menace that they are making it out to be, and McCain has some pretty communist ideas of his own. Maybe it's time we stopped being afraid of economic labels and just worried about doing the right thing.

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New York Times turns off double click dictionary pop ups!

Posted October 16, 2008 - 21:46 by Will Chen

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The New York Times website had a terrible feature that would open a new window every time you double clicked on any word in a story.  The window pointed to a definition of the word you just highligthed.  Apparently the Times had a pretty low opinion of its readers' intelligence.  People absolutely hated this feature. Now the terror is finally over! Take a look at the new feature:      

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We just need to vote

Posted October 13, 2008 - 21:25 by Will Chen

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Barack Obama is sounding more presidential with every speech.  When his supporters booed John McCain, he responded not with glee or bitterness, but with class. "No, we don't need that," said Obama.  The boos die down a bit. "We just need to vote, that's what we need to do."

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