When I’m looking for product information on the Web, I love comparison charts. They make it so much easier to see how the features of one product match up with another – and ultimately how they fit exactly what I’m looking for.
Michael Koploy has put together a comparison chart of 5 Affordable Point of Sale (POS) Systems for Small Business which I think you’ll find quite helpful if you’re in the market for a POS system.
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National home prices hit a new low in March, giving credence to long-simmering worries about a double dip in the housing market.
The widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller home price index showed that home prices fell below their previous lows nationally and in the Chicago area, prompting the report’s authors to declare an official double dip in home prices. In the U.S., home prices plummeted to their mid-2002 levels. In the Chicago area, prices in March were at levels not seen since April 2001.
The Chicago area has been one of the country’s weak spots for months, with local home prices falling since November 2010. In March, according to the index, home prices slipped 2.4 percent from February and were down 7.6 percent on an annualized basis.
Condominium values plummeted even more in the Chicago area. In March, they fell to levels not seen since March 2000. Read more…
Almost as soon as Steve Ballmer took over as chief executive of Microsoft in January 2000, the stock crashed. It wasn’t his fault; the dotcom crash pulled every tech stock down with it, including the Seattle software empire that, the previous year, had been the world’s most valuable at $612-billion.
This is the sort of mistiming that has dogged Ballmer’s tenure: always arriving a bit too late and overseeing a collapse of a promising lead. It happened with internet search, with tablets, with cellphones, with music players.
Ballmer last week faced calls for his removal from David Einhorn, a powerful Wall Street hedge fund manager famous for his early warnings about the weakness of doomed bank Lehman Brothers. Though sources on the company’s board backed him, investors know that Ballmer does not have a free pass just because he joined in 1980 as employee number 30.
“Bill Gates is ruthless,” said a fund manager at one of Microsoft’s largest shareholders. Read more…
Attention all car buyers: The era of cut-rate financing, generous cash-back offers and big discounts is coming to an end.
With the effects of the earthquake in Japan rippling through the industry and causing shortages, prices are rising for both new and used cars, and fewer models and options will be available come summer, especially for the hybrids and fuel-efficient vehicles that Japan produces.
That’s prompted many experts to voice something rarely said in the sales-happy auto industry: With consumers facing the toughest market in recent memory, if you can, put off purchases until things sort out, probably early next year.
“If you don’t have an immediate need, you are probably better to wait and figure out where the market is headed,” said Jesse Toprak, an analyst with auto information company TrueCar.com.
Toprak concedes his reluctance to give such advice. TrueCar collects referral fees for new-car sales to visitors to its website.
Yet he’s not a lone voice.
“If people were paying attention they would have bought in March and April. Read more…
LinkedIn, the first major US social network website to go public, saw its shares more than double as they debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday to a bidding frenzy from investors.
Shares in LinkedIn had been priced at $45 before the flotation but reached $112 at one point — an 150% increase that valued the firm at $10-billion.
LinkedIn’s stellar NYSE debut is the clearest sign yet that stock markets are in the grip of a new technology and digital media bubble, fuelled by the ever-larger valuations of social media companies.
The business networking site, founded by the internet entrepreneur Reid Hoffman in 2002, raised $353-million with its initial public offering on Wednesday evening, which valued the firm at $4,3-billion. The firm last week said it was looking to raise $175-million with the IPO.
The flotation makes the firm easily the highest-valued US internet site since Google went public in 2004. LinkedIn has about 100-million users and turned a profit of $15,4-million on revenues of $243-million in 2010. Read more…
If you’re starting a business where you don’t need any additional small business financing, that’s great. You’re free to concentrate on getting your new business up and running.
But if you do need it, a lack of small business financing can keep your idea for starting a small business stuck at the starting blocks.