Archive for the 'Trends' Category

Recently a local doctor told a college student not to enter medical transcription because “medical transcriptionists won’t exist in 10 years”. Of course, with remote doctors, it’s equally possible to say that local doctors won’t exist in 10 years, but I bet she still tells people to go to medical school. As my wife, a very [...]

Will your home office be wireless soon? Not wirelessly connected to the Internet – powered by the transfer of energy without “cords” and electrical cables… The technology is not new. In the nineteenth century Nikolai Tesla tried to demonstrate as much with his own experiments until he ran out of money. But now the possibility [...]

It’s official, I’m the 277,391,305 richest person on earth! (Actually I rounded the figure I put in there, so who really knows? It sounded intersting though.) Significantly enough, this means that I’m in the top 7% of the world’s richest people. You may be richer than you think too… Click through to see for yourself. [...]

Technology continues to drive down the price of doing business while in some ways also limiting one’s options for doing some businesses. Google’s CEO is now proposing that folks be able to use cell phones for free… as long as they’re willing to us ad sponsored cellphones hosting Google’s ads of course. Should this unfold, [...]

It’s Reuters this time. The Austin, TX Business Journal reports Reuters is investing $7 million dollars in a Blogging/Social Networking firm. The firm, Pluck, will help Reuters stay ahead of the curve (or at least with the curve) as the world transitions to the “new media”. So keep blogging boys and girls, it might really [...]

Sudden interest in alternative fuels such as ethanol are causing corn prices to skyrocket and sending some windfall profits back to America’s farm communities. The Renewable Fuel Association said it projects total corn used for ethanol production to increase from 1.6 billion bushels in 2005 to nearly three billion bushels by 2015. The industry group [...]

When Ross Perot ran for President, he talked about the dangers of NAFTA saying that it would create a “Giant Sucking Sound” as jobs fled the United States. Now, Ross Perot’s company, Perot Systems, is taking advantage of cost savings south of the border and opening a service center in Mexico to serve U.S. companies seeking [...]

Forbes Small Business released rankings from the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council about the survival rates of small businesses in various states. The report which is 40 pages listed the best and worst states for small business based on tax rates and government policies (meddling). Actually it was based on 29 criteria, including tax rates [...]

According to Money News (free registration), White Collar Outsourcing Could Boom Soon as Fortune 500 companies seek to save $58 billion dollars annually. These companies have reportedly become much more confident in the ability of foreign workers to do analytical and other back office tasks kept onshore till now.    

Since we’re on microfinance already today, here’s a pet peeve I have about it. Jeff Cornwall at The Entrepreneurial Mind got me ranting and raving about this because of his post today on the Debate about Microfinance. I’ve discussed this previously in a post called “Microlending Goes For Profit In The Third World”  I don’t [...]