Like many entrepreneurs, John Earle, owner of Johnny Cupcakes, built his successful business with the help of his family. How did this work for him? Just ask his Mom, Lorraine Earle, the CFO of Johnny Cupcakes. Balancing a full time job and starting up a…
 

You’ve got to hand it to the magazine publishers.  They continue to throw spaghetti against the iPad and other e-readers trying to see what will stick and what falls to the floor.

It is now part of the lives of many professional women in the developed world to worry about what to do to improve the lot of their less fortunate sisters.

From behind home plate, Jason Klein and Casey White look proudly at the Reading Phillies’ flamethrower Phillippe Aumont.  It’s not his high-priced arm they’re admiring, It’s what he’s wearing.  “They’re the only team with pink on their uniforms,” White says.

While you’re Dilberting away in your cubicle, there are people taking conference calls in broad shorts and flip-flops.  While you’re saving your two weeks of vacation to hit the sand, they’re getting paid to be there.

SHANGHAI – The cost of doing business in China is going up.
Coastal Factories are raising salaries, local governments are hiking minimum wage standards and if China allows its currency, the renminbi, to appreciate against the U.S. dollar later this year, as many economists are predicting, the cost of manufacturing in China will almost certainly rise.

With the recession lifting, returning to normal (even if it’s a new normal) will take some time.  The economy is recovering, and business growth is beginning to resume.

The new national jobless numbers came out Friday morning with the umemployment rate falling from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent – thank, in large part, to the 2010 Census that hired 411,000 temporary workers.