Business Pundit

Managing a business can make you swim waters not even the sharks dare tread; inevitably you may even be forced to jump right into the thick of things just to handle a big dispute. And you can’t always hope for the best and leave things uncertain…. Read more

  Share Facebook is our new God. It’s omnipresent (except when you don’t have service) and controls our lives, albeit somewhat silently. We fear it and for our reputations, lest some embarrassing pictures get tagged or dirty laundry… Read more

In addition to bringing smiles to millions of people each year (those Samoas are pure heaven), Girl Scout Cookies rake in over $700 million in revenue and contribute over 200 billion calories to the obesity epidemic. This interesting infographic… Read more

Believe it or not, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) has been around for 100 years. Their latest infographic provides a highlight of their biggest events from the first BBB in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1912 to the release of their app in 2011…. Read more

Share We’re all addicted to Facebook, and that’s a good thing – for Facebook. Now there are rumors flying about a historic IPO. At $10 billion, Facebook’s IPO would be the largest of any tech company in history, leaving Bankrate, Linkedin,… Read more

Share Which retail workers are merry, jolly and happy to serve you this holiday season? PayScale.com asked retail workers at various major outlets to rate their levels of stress and satisfaction on the job and came up with a happiness… Read more

Some of the biggest companies in the world have been unable to get their blogging recipe just right. Then there are those that have figured out that sometimes the best sell is the soft sell. Here are three corporate blogs worth reading on a… Read more

  Share At first glance, Paypal sounds like an amazing service; transfer your points/gold/dollars/XP from one account to another in a matter of seconds, making it just as easy to buy from eBay as it is to open a small online store. But… Read more

Image: Google Man/Wikimedia Cloud computing, like a thunderhead, is abuzz with energy. From Apple’s iCloud to Best Buy’s new cloud music service, companies are scrambling to up the ante on their cloud offerings. Despite all the hype, it’s… Read more

In all likelihood, you’ve never heard of Altria Group, Inc., but you’re probably familiar with their former name: Philip Morris Inc. The mega-corporation changed their name in 2003, probably realizing that, in the public mind, the name was… Read more

LinkedIn’s IPO is already a mind boggling success (up over 100% in first few hours of trading). Here’s a look at the long road to today’s IPO. Source: The Credit Score Blog EMBED THE IMAGE ABOVE ON YOUR SITE Source: The… Read more

There’s been a lot of media-driven furor this year around the issue of humongous corporations weaseling their way out of paying taxes, with GE taking a brunt of the public assault. While with each passing month we hear of some new offender, one… Read more

Image: Alex E. Proimos/Flickr What makes you stop trusting a company? Was talking to their customer service people akin to having a conversation with a brick wall? Do your bills more closely resemble Pandora’s Box than something you can… Read more

From left-handed undies to the Pontiac Aztek, some products invoke only one question: What were they thinking? The company screwups below aren’t just limited to WTF-caliber product ideas. These companies let rats infest their premises, made a… Read more