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After two and a half months in private beta, StreetAdvisor has become available to the general public. And yet I have to say that StreetAdvisor is “available to” – as opposed to “ready for” – the public, because the site is the cyber equivalent of a ghost town.
StreetAdvisor is intended to be a place for people to review and research residential streets throughout America, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
You attract them, you screen them, you interview them, you hire and train them, and then they leave you. It is estimated that employee turn over costs U.S. companies over one billion dollars annually.
Robots.txt Signpost Warns Trespassers From Private Property
The future of high-definition blue-laser DVDs will happen, but competing standards make the future a little less clear.
Ford Motor Co. announced yesterday that it reduced its earnings per share guidance for the full-year 2005. This is a result of a weak profit outlook for the company’s North American operations.
At this week’s Small Business Administration’s SBA Expo ’05, Register.com, Inc., a leading provider of global domain registration and Internet services, announced that it has formed an alliance with Washington, DC-based SCORE Association, an SBA-funded organization of more than 10,500 volunteers who provide free, confidential small business counseling to entrepreneurs.
Ford Motor Company reduced its full-year earnings guidance for 2005. Last month, the Company said its full-year 2005 earnings-per-share would be at the lower end of its guidance, which was $1.75 to $1.95 per share.
Gildan Activewear announced that it expects that its earnings for its second fiscal quarter, ended April 3, 2005, will be above its previous guidance.
Monsanto is increasing estimates for the company’s second- quarter earnings per share (EPS) and raising fiscal-year 2005 guidance.
General Motors is revising its first-quarter and calendar-year earnings guidance to reflect lower North American sales and production volumes, a tougher pricing environment, and a more car-based sales mix.
