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Avoid cubicle farms and bosses breathing down your neck by starting an online business that you can run from home. Once you start making real money, you might never turn back. Here are 50 online businesses you start and run from home: Virtual… Read more

GOOD has a nice infographic detailing how college has become more and more unaffordable (click on infographic for larger version):… Read more

The Internet is ablaze with blogs. We sifted through the web’s innumerable offerings to give you this year’s list of the 75 best business blogs. Our topics range from accounting to work-life balance. We selected them based on timely, useful… Read more

This is a post by Minyanville.com. Author James Kostohryz is an entrepreneur and investment professional. In Why Inflation in China Could Get Out of Control, I predicted that, to the extent that China continues to grow at a rapid pace,… Read more

Chinese tech companies’ US IPO have been erupting into a storm of money lately. IT services company iSoftStone, which targets the banking, energy, communications, and tech industries with its consulting and services, is the NYSE’s latest… Read more

This is a post by Minyanville.com. This week, Verizon announced it will be hot on the heels of Sprint and Clearwire when it launches its 4G LTE network on Sunday, December 5. The fourth generation of wireless standards will offer up much faster… Read more

Image: Verne Equinox/Wikimedia FIJI water, with its trademark rectangular bottle and exotic branding, could soon become a thing of the past. Owners Lynda and Stewart Resnick are shutting down the FIJI water plant after the country’s government… Read more

This is a post by Minyanville.com. Ed.: Writer Justin Rohrlich explores why the usual Thanksgiving meal costs about half a buck more this year. The American Farm Bureau reports that the average national cost of a 2010 Thanksgiving dinner is… Read more

Image: Memeticians Cyber Monday, the biggest Internet shopping day of the year, happens on November 29. As a shopping day, it’s not quite as involved as Black Friday. You can hit up Cyber Monday in your pajamas. It still pays, however, to… Read more

Painting by James Montgommery Flagg/1920 The US corporate income tax rate is 35%. Yet this year, Google, which made $5.5 billion in revenues, only paid an effective tax rate of 2.4%. Indeed, it’s not unusual for a corporation to pay only 6-7%… Read more

Image: Alan Mak/Wikimedia Commons Move over, Shanghai. China’s economic future lies in its center–the 20 biggest cities in inland China, to be exact. The Economist, in a new report, has dubbed this trend CHAMPS (named after some of the leading… Read more

MGM Studios, which was last bought out by private equity firms in 2005, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. MGM, which has been struggling since its buyout, hired Stephen Cooper, the CEO who had run post-bankruptcy Enron and Krispy Kreme, to… Read more

This is a guest post by Guide to Career Education’s Joseph Gustav. Amongst all the materialism and shallowness often associated with Hollywood, amidst all the tales of stars behaving badly, there are some celebrities who are using their money to… Read more

Image: Vancouver Laser and Skincare Center/Flickr Botox isn’t just for wrinkles anymore. Thanks to FDA approval, Botox maker Allergan can now market the nerve-connection blocker to people with chronic migraines. This approval may double Botox’s… Read more