Mashable’s Social Media Guide for Small Businesses

On December 4, 2009

Mashable’s Social Media Guide for Small Businesses

Over the past year, Mashable has written extensively on the value of social media to small businesses. We have also contributed regularly on this topic to the American Express Open Forum. From the fundamentals of Twitter branding, to the importance of blogging, to getting work done with some great online tools, small businesses face many [...]


On December 4, 2009

Comcast’s New Broadcast Spectacle

Comcast just bought itself a nice little present for the holidays: NBC Universal. The cable network will have a controlling stake in NBC once the deal is flattened out, and in return, it's giving General Electric $6.5 billion along with $7.25 billion worth of programming.


On December 4, 2009

Bing Outage Teaches About Uptime, Accessibility

Recently, Microsoft's search engine, Bing, went offline.  Bloggers and Twitter users immediately began to whine about it as if the world were ending, and even after the outage ended (roughly 30 minutes later), the flood of complaints continued.  This should serve as a lesson about the importance of uptime and accessibility.

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On December 3, 2009

Who Will Pay to Protect the Internet?

Corporate America doesn't fully fear a cyber-terrorism event and therefore won't adequately invest in the Internet's security. Will the government have to get involved?


On December 3, 2009

Comcast Suits Up for a Brand New Game

It's official: Comcast has engineered what appears to be the biggest media joint venture of the year -- a multibillion-dollar merger that will combine General Electric's NBC Universal with Comcast's own cable networks. Once complete, Comcast will take majority ownership of NBC, ending GE's 20 year control of the network.


On December 3, 2009

COBRA Subsidies Should Be Extended

Congress should extend the COBRA subsidy law to help millions of unemployed people who would otherwise lose their health insurance.


On December 3, 2009

Recession Takes a Bite Out of U.S. GHG Emissions

The 2008 greenhouse gas emissions report from the Energy Department provides further fodder to the power of a recession. Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 fell by 2.2 percent from 2007 to 7.053 billion metric tons, according to a U.S. Energy Information Administration report released Thursday afternoon. That's a remarkable change from what has been occurring in the United States for nearly two decades. Total GHG emissions grew at an average annual rate of 0.7 percent every year since 1990. That is until 2008 came along. The decrease in total emissions was largely the result of a drop in carbon dioxide emissions, the report said. And the cause was three-fold: higher energy prices, which led to drop in petroleum use; lower demand for electricity; and...


On December 3, 2009

Pfizer Blasted in Canada for $780K CME Program

Pfizer (PFE) can't catch a break in Canada right now. It's being blasted for a C$780,000 continuing medical education program it has set up through the Canadian Medical Association. Critics believe that doctor education should not be influenced by drug companies, which have a different set of interests than patients. The Globe and Mail: “My feeling is that the pharmaceutical industry has no business at all educating doctors,” said Arnold Relman, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. “There's no question that if you're paying the piper, you influence the tune that the piper is going to play.” A few days before, Pfizer was the focus of outrage when it emerged...


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