Business Pundit

I ran across TaskRabbit, which matches you with people who can run your errands for you–or hooks you up with people who need errands run–while reading this excellent Wall St. Journal article on work-at-homers. With TaskRabbit, you put up a… Read more

Google’s open-source, invite-only, real-time communication tool, Wave, is dead, at least for the rest of the year. Google announced that it would suspend Wave development and stop maintaining the website for the rest of the year. Wave was… Read more

I’ve received 5 giveaway copies of John C. Maxwell’s Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently. This engaging book teaches you how to connect with people in a way that increases your influence, improves… Read more

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I’m going to be a judge for Fairfield’s Small Business Road to Success Challenge. If you have a small business that requires you to travel a lot, this could be an exciting opportunity. Here’s the official lowdown, from Fairfield: About the… Read more

Image: Drea Knufken Freelancing ain’t easy. Ask any freelancer, and they’ll tell you all about the challenges inherent to manning your own ship. What you won’t learn so quickly is how to make it in the freelancing world. Besides having the… Read more

Here in the US, you’d think Toyota would be a bad investment, based on its perpetual recalls. But the automaker made $2.2 billion in profit last quarter, thanks to cost-cutting measures and strong sales in emerging markets. From the Detroit Free… Read more

Beleaguered book chain Barnes & Noble has announced it’s looking for someone to buy it. Reuters reports: Barnes & Noble, whose shares soared 25 percent on the news, said company founder and top shareholder Leonard Riggio is considering bidding… Read more

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Image: Puamelia/Flickr A driver for Connecticut beer and wine wholesaler Hartford Distributors has shot and killed at least 8 at the workplace. The Hartford Courant has more: Sources said Omar S. Thornton, 34, was a driver for the company… Read more

The Princeton Review has released its annual list of the best 373 colleges in America. This exhaustive list is based on student surveys, and covers real-life aspects of school, like how hard they party, rather than spitting out a ranking of… Read more

The tiny peak heralds a drop, IMO. Image: Favstocks June’s pending home sales are down 2.6%, hitting an index record low of 75.7, according to the National Association of Realtors. CNBC has more: The Realtors said its Pending Home Sales… Read more

Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) will make concessions to the Saudi and Indian governments, according to media reports. Saudi Arabia wants online porn blocked from Blackberries, while Indian security agencies want the ability to monitor… Read more

In case you needed more proof, here it is: (Can anyone point me to the original source of this image, so I can credit it? Got it via… Read more