Almost by accident, Andrew Mason has figured out what others wish they could: how to make money from electronic content. Mason’s Groupon marketing company has done this through “crowdsourcing,” which uses the power of the masses on the Internet. Groupon sends out daily e-mails with a deal that offers a product or service at [...]

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  When Adrian Portlock left his mobile phone on the tube in 2000, he was shocked at the kerfuffle involved in getting it back. “They asked me for the IMEI number of the handset,” says Portlock. “This was back in 2000, I didn’t even know what an IMEI number was.” He finally tracked down the [...]

  Proving once again that installation of electronic doo-dads is just too darned hard, Wal-Mart will get into Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” business by launching Solution Stations. Walmart and Dell (initially) will install and train customers how to use things like HDTV, home theater, wireless, and computer upgrades. A dozen of the centers will open [...]

  Shane Chen was getting bored with his job. For 20 years, the founder of CID Inc. had focused on his Camas business, selling electronic instruments to plant scientists. He wanted a change. “One day I saw an exercise equipment ad,” the Camas resident said. “I thought, ‘I can do better than that.’ ” And [...]

  You have to keep being innovative when it comes to advertising: There are different forms of advertising, and most of them are something that anyone has seen or heard of before. Billboards by the freeway or those banners that are found on websites. Those are all kinds of advertising. GoMobile Advertising is a completely [...]

  This sounds like another Simon Woodroffe venture, founder of the Yo! Sushi brand in the UK…..  When someone passes a vending machine, what do they usually see? Probably candy bars, potato chips or other forms of not-so-healthy foods. YoNaturals is a natural, organic vending option for schools, stores or office buildings but also has [...]

  Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas’ pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers. That’s because orders are rolling in through the Internet. “It’s pretty amazing not to hear a phone ring on a busy night,” said Freitas, an operating partner with the largest Papa [...]

SomethingStore.com, based in New York, which can be anything and the recipients only find out what it is when they receive it. With a simple and suiting tag line “Surprise Yourself” the site promises nothing but ’something’ and explains “Your something may be a cool gadget, rare book, table game, handmade necklace, reverse clock, box [...]

BookMooch, Buckman’s 20-month-old service that lets people trade their used books for the cost of postage, is making a small impression on a giant online retailer, Amazon.com. Even though BookMooch is free to members, the site generates an estimated half-million dollars in annual book sales for Amazon because of a browser plug-in called the Moochbar, [...]