Category: Business
Google Answers Shuts Down
You must have heard of Yahoo Answers. It’s a free question and answer service that is doing very well. This cannot be said about Google’s version of Questions and Answers, which is not very well known. Google Answers was launched in June 2002 and it is based on a paid model, where […]
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Biggest Business Mistakes
This is the third part of Random Business Facts. It’s just a couple random but huge business mistakes.
Technology
Merger of America Online and Time Warner in 2000 looked like a good move but the dotcom bubble wiped out much of AOL’s value and in 2002 the company suffered biggest ever corporate loss of some $100 […]
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Most Valuable Coins and Banknotes
This is the third part of Random Business Facts. It’s just an interesting look at some of the world’s most valuable and rare coins and banknotes.
The most expensive coin ever sold was a 1933 gold double eagle coin purchased in 2002 for $7,590,000 USD. All the gold double eagle coins minted in 1933 […]
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Random Business Quotes
This is the second part of Random Business Facts. It’s just a compilation of some great business quotes.
“There is only one boss, the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” - Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart
“We don’t have a […]
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Overview of Google
I recently realized that Google now provides definitions if you type define:word in the search. This is interesting to me because I was once looking from something like this when I developed my vocabulary website WordMingle. I also realized today that you can search for flight information on Google by typing the two […]
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Random Business Facts
Here are some business facts that I found very interesting. I will be posting more random facts daily.
The construction company Kongo Gumi started in year 578 in Japan and it was a family firm. The oldest newspaper still in circulation is “Post och Inrikes Tidningar” from Sweeden and it was established in year […]
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