<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001</id><updated>2011-04-22T09:56:38.408+05:30</updated><category term='online'/><category term='SnP'/><category term='linkpost'/><category term='Intro'/><category term='business'/><category term='analysis'/><category term='trading'/><category term='aquisitions'/><category term='success'/><category term='statistics'/><category term='employee'/><category term='oexoptions'/><category term='Google'/><category term='fortune'/><category term='LP'/><category term='signals'/><category term='stock exchange'/><title type='text'>"Busy"ness</title><subtitle type='html'>Ever heard of it?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>15</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-1123563190933897627</id><published>2008-09-07T11:05:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-07T12:05:01.491+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linkpost'/><title type='text'>Repair Your Credit with Repair My Credit</title><content type='html'>Have you arrived here by searching for &lt;a href="http://www.repairmycreditnow.com"&gt;repair credit&lt;/a&gt;?Or are you interested to know a nice source for credit repair?Then I would tell you about a company that offers credit repair and other credit services.You might already have known about a handful of those companies.But the company I am going to introduce to you cleans your credit safe, fast and easy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; If you are reading this means you are interested to know about that company.Then I would be honored to introduce to you people about the most reliable company in matters of &lt;a href="http://www.repairmycreditnow.com"&gt;credit repair service&lt;/a&gt; -&gt;Repair My Credit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They offer credit repair services by helping clients develop clean credit  using their revolutionary “V” Phase Process for their repairs. 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Because of the popularity of these options, investors often refer to the index by its ticker.&lt;br /&gt;There has always been a dearth of good &lt;a href="http://www.oexoptions.com/"&gt;online stock trading&lt;/a&gt; information.&lt;/p&gt;                     &lt;p&gt; The guys at OEXoptions site use a variety of technical indicators, such as ADX, DMI, Chaikins Money Flow, Wyckoff, candlestick charts, and teach traders method, rules, and approach.&lt;br /&gt;They bring seasoned knowledge of the markets, emotions, and the simple ways to study fundamentals, technicals, and the “events” that trigger volatility.&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p&gt;They don’t just provide a “signal”, but a full alert with detail that allows the trader to make their own decisions, learn to trade, and not just rely on a “signal”. This makes them unique in  &lt;a href="http://www.oexoptions.com/"&gt; day trading options&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;     &lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;They provide investing information  as an educational service only. I think the data they review and comment on is reliable. Don't always rely just on just offline or &lt;a href="http://www.oexoptions.com/"&gt;online trading&lt;/a&gt; information.You use them both together with intelligence.Option buying and selling is risky and you can lose or gain  money easily.All that is needed is the will to take take prudent risks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-8140509467148429924?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/8140509467148429924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/05/oex-trading-options.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/8140509467148429924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/8140509467148429924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/05/oex-trading-options.html' title='OEX trading options'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-8414467706566333090</id><published>2008-04-22T16:58:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-04-23T08:45:06.139+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Deal with your Dodge</title><content type='html'>Have you got that old car which you want to get rid of since long but don't get a proper price for it?Or do you want to buy a used car so that you won't empty your pockets but still want it to perform well?For both the situations the solution is only one-go consult a &lt;a href="http://www.pierredodge.com/"&gt;dodge dealer&lt;/a&gt;.So what is a &lt;a href="http://www.pierredodge.com/"&gt;dealer  dodge&lt;/a&gt;.... errr dodge dealer?A dodge dealer is the one kind of a mediating company that buys old cars and sell them to other customers. It's like a mediator between a buyer and seller making the sale profitable to everyone.Ok, now that you know what a dodge is you would surely want to know who is the best dodge dealer?In my opinion Pierre Dodge is the &lt;a href="http://www.pierredodge.com/"&gt;best dodge dealer&lt;/a&gt; . They are the first dodge dealers in Seattle. Now they have grown to a stage that  they are one of the world's largest Mega Volume Dodge dealers. Their system is made very easy for people to deal with dodges. They offer things such as Dodge Configurator , a Build your own Dodge Tool,Dodge Internet Specials etc making it very helpful system. For any help you can chat with them directly on their site's live help system. They have over 3000 cars to choose from at any instant. This makes them very much leaders in dodge not only from Seattle but any where in the US. You people should surely try out with them for your dodge matters.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-8414467706566333090?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/8414467706566333090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/04/deal-with-your-dodge.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/8414467706566333090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/8414467706566333090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/04/deal-with-your-dodge.html' title='Deal with your Dodge'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-3268821278692186532</id><published>2008-04-03T20:45:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-04-04T06:00:17.434+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Investing Blog-Kn(Gr)ow your potential</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.investingblog.org' target='_blank'&gt;Investing Blog&lt;/a&gt; is one of those very little number of blogs which provide you the information on how to invest smartly.The blog delves into topics like stocks,Forex,Hedge Funds,futures and commodities.This blog provides as a very good pointer for those of you who are thinking of investing your hard earned money in some of the above things.Though the blog might look a bit of overhead for the beginners,it's a very good resource for regular persons into this.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; The blog mainly concentrates on the &lt;a href='http://www.investingblog.org' target='_blank'&gt;investment&lt;/a&gt; aspects related to the US market,but  even non-US market investors could learn from this blog  on how to analyze things.There is always a deficit of resources related to investment and this blog by itself tries a bit to reduce this deficit.It would very nice to see many blogs like this come up and increase the amount resources available for free on the ocean of internet.From my personal point f view I would rate this blog as one of the top blogs in this area.You people would surely love to visit this blog if you are into &lt;a href='http://www.investingblog.org' target='_blank'&gt;investing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-3268821278692186532?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/3268821278692186532/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/04/investing-blog-kngrow-your-potential.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/3268821278692186532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/3268821278692186532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/04/investing-blog-kngrow-your-potential.html' title='Investing Blog-Kn(Gr)ow your potential'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-4518563915440234506</id><published>2008-03-23T11:05:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-07-13T18:42:12.436+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Gate Operator</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt; It does not matter how much we earn and how luxurious the home, office or furniture we possess are , when they are not given proper security. The security of our home, office and belongings start right from the the entrance. And that entrance is protected by our Gates. It all depends on gates of what quality they are- if they are strong, then we can protect our home or office .In this modern world, we see the technology moving to higher degree day-by-day. We see in news papers that a bank has been robbed or some thieves have stolen valued belongings from a house and so on .So we should not take any chances in protecting our property.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For this problem, Access Control of Texas provides well designed with latest and advanced technology &lt;a href="http://www.gateoperator.net/"&gt;automatic gate&lt;/a&gt; and electric gates that  protect the entrance of our home or office.The gates are also equipped with  alarms when anyone try to enter through these gates without permission. All the control will be in our hands in the form of a remote to the &lt;a href="http://www.gateoperator.net/"&gt;gate opener&lt;/a&gt;. Access Control of Texas has been in this business from past twenty years and worked with many contractors, builders. So they know much about the importance of the  product and hence the manufactured &lt;a href="http://www.gateoperator.net" target="_blank"&gt;Automatic Gate&lt;/a&gt; , &lt;a href="http://www.gateoperator.net/"&gt;electric gate&lt;/a&gt; by them  are well required for the protection of your home and Office. They have such a wide variety of gates which can be operated with cellular phone based remote control, some gates do have complete alarm control, control box, radio receiver, two remote controls, 2 batteries and 2 infrared photocells. And many other &lt;a href="http://www.gateoperator.net" target="_blank"&gt;Automatic Gate&lt;/a&gt; and electric gate with different elegant styles and necessary protective equipments. And more importantly you can get all of them at affordable prices.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-4518563915440234506?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/4518563915440234506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/03/gate-operator.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/4518563915440234506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/4518563915440234506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/03/gate-operator.html' title='Gate Operator'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-6853911536370502005</id><published>2008-03-16T23:26:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2008-03-17T07:04:47.010+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LP'/><title type='text'>Fort worth DWI Attorney and The Law Offices of McConathy and McConathy</title><content type='html'>Though God has created all equal in terms of abilities,He has shown partiality in problems. So some times  in life we will have to face situations where we have go to court, police station or hospital. But as usual people are afraid to go to these places. Incase,you have to go to court in any case then no need to worry. There are &lt;a href="http://www.mcconathylaw.com/"&gt;fort worth dwi lawyer&lt;/a&gt; to take care of your case. They serve in Dallas, fortworth, Denton, McKinney Texas area. They also are serving in many cities of America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They undertake almost every type of case. At a very low charges they take care of your cases very well. The lawyers of&lt;a href="http://www.mcconathylaw.com/"&gt;dwi attorney fort worth&lt;/a&gt; have experience of 35 years and have won many cases. They have maintained a very good record. They have defended over 4000 cases. This shows that &lt;a href="http://www.mcconathylaw.com/"&gt;dwi fort worth&lt;/a&gt; are very successful in the field of winning cases whether it is criminal or any other case. 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Their website has been launched in 2002 and if you would like to see trial results then you can see them on their &lt;a href="http://www.mcconathylaw.com/"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-6853911536370502005?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/6853911536370502005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/03/though-god-has-created-all-equal-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/6853911536370502005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/6853911536370502005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/03/though-god-has-created-all-equal-in.html' title='Fort worth DWI Attorney and The Law Offices of McConathy and McConathy'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-5190624483913889266</id><published>2008-02-21T17:45:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-21T17:45:46.425+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Purpose of Cash Loans</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;When we think of cash loans, we usually think of things such as car repairs, medical bills, utility bills, and other expenses that cannot wait until the next payday. 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Even those with good credit may choose to take advantage of cash loans for various reasons of their own. Those reasons usually relate to not wanting to have any credit inquiries in their credit history because they will be making a large purchase now or in the near future.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sometimes a person will take a cash loan to help a relative instead of tying up his or her own cash or credit. This is more common when the relative is promising to pay the loan off within the next couple of weeks to a month and usually involves the relative paying the accumulated interest on the cash loan.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-5190624483913889266?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/5190624483913889266/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/purpose-of-cash-loans.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/5190624483913889266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/5190624483913889266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/purpose-of-cash-loans.html' title='Purpose of Cash Loans'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-1645362158989560729</id><published>2008-02-13T11:35:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-13T11:35:17.519+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='statistics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aquisitions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><title type='text'>The list of acquisitions</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;After the recent failed M$-Yahoo deal,the world is gaining interest in the media acquisitions.&lt;a href='http://www.mydigimedia.com'&gt;Amy Webb&lt;/a&gt; has long been updating this list of Yahoo,Google,Microsoft,AOL etc., and providing the list as a pdf.The list of Google as expected is the longest as expected.You can have a look at it here.For list of remaining companies &lt;a href='http://www.mydigimedia.com/WhoOwns.html'&gt;follow this link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;img src='http://googlinx.googlepages.com/Google.png'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-1645362158989560729?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/1645362158989560729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/list-of-acquisitions.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/1645362158989560729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/1645362158989560729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/list-of-acquisitions.html' title='The list of acquisitions'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-1733352975922948076</id><published>2008-02-11T21:21:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-11T21:21:37.109+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Yahoo declines M$-seeks to restart merger with AOL</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Yahoo has finally rejected Microsoft's unsolicited bid saying the bid highly undervalued the company.The news also says the company won't consider anything below $40 per share against previously quoted $31 as a valid bid.If that's true,this may give rise to some new tie-ups.As Yahoo can't overcome Microsoft's hostility all by itself,it has to take help of some  one else.As you all know Google already has offered a  helping hand to Yahoo.But Yahoo may not take this offering because that means it becomes dependent on its main competitor.So it has to search for some other hands.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    And an &lt;a href='http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Yahoo_seeks_to_restart_merger_talks_with_AOL/articleshow/2773945.cms'&gt;article &lt;/a&gt;in The Times says that Yahoo is seeking to revive its old merger talks with AOL.If it merges with the Time Warner Inc. 's AOL , then it could save itself from the Big Brother.But how could it be possible?May be Yahoo should now come down to change its condition that Yahoo's 20% of content business should be swapped by 80% of AOL's.Then it means as the need is from Yahoo's side,they might soften up a bit.This would be an advantage to AOL.But, still this is the way for Yahoo's way out of this.Otherwise,Microsoft may take its hostile bid to share holders.If this plan is succeeded,the 10 board members will probably be ousted.So the easy option at present is AOL.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;Let us wait and see what is in store for Yahoo&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-1733352975922948076?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/1733352975922948076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/yahoo-declines-m-seeks-to-restart.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/1733352975922948076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/1733352975922948076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/yahoo-declines-m-seeks-to-restart.html' title='Yahoo declines M$-seeks to restart merger with AOL'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-5869385692832431329</id><published>2008-02-10T17:37:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-10T17:37:29.960+05:30</updated><title type='text'>The Win!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;    The news is out!This blog became the winner of BITSian Blogger Challenge.The motive of this blog is so served.But now that I have won,I should ponder upon the future of this blog.At present,I feel like continuing writing this blog.Now, my first motive would be to popularize this blog to the outer world.SO should step on the advertising part.So now I am in search for visitors :)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-5869385692832431329?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/5869385692832431329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/win.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/5869385692832431329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/5869385692832431329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/win.html' title='The Win!!!'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-388604943016303380</id><published>2008-02-08T18:30:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-08T18:30:58.838+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='online'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='success'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business'/><title type='text'>Some crazy succesfull online Business ideas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;    I think this list is not going to be small.So I will be adding names to this list each time I find them under the tag "Online Business".To start with here are some.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;a href='http://milliondollarhomepage.com/'&gt;Million Dollar Homepage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    The first one and classic that's always going to stay on this list.The owner of the website announced that he's going to sell  ad space on his site milliondollarhomepage.com at the price of $1 for 1 pixel and he sold 1million pixels like that.That made him an instant millionaire.And if you are wondering how many pixels does a page in your website has,you have to see this- these days common screen resolution is 1024x768.So the common number of pixels occupying by this is 1024*768=786,432.So he sold a little bit higher than 1024x768 and that's all his homepage consists of!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.santamail.org'&gt; 	  	 Santa Pretender&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/big&gt;   &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;     This is one more nice example for this.Byron Reese,the owner of this site , came upon the idea of a pretending Santa Claus.He offered to send letters to the kids under the name of Santa Claus.He charged the parents with $10 per letter for doing this.The letters were so qualified that they were even postmarked North Pole,Alaska to get the feel of Santa.With this business he made his sales to rise for $1million in 2005.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.napads.com'&gt;Napkin Ads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    This is a very new site with a very new idea.The site owners have asked bar owners in US to signup for free napkins.And they offered advertisers to select their interested bars to send their company's ad-printed napkins to them.In return they charge the advertisers with a commission.This is  real new idea that in my opinion is going to rock.Though this doesn't come totally as an online one,the major part of getting bars and advrtisers is via their site.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-388604943016303380?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/388604943016303380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/some-crazy-succesfull-online-business.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/388604943016303380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/388604943016303380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/some-crazy-succesfull-online-business.html' title='Some crazy succesfull online Business ideas'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-4922733260540318509</id><published>2008-02-06T14:40:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-06T14:40:29.008+05:30</updated><title type='text'>PANORAMA-A simple theory</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;Since this blog was started everything(ok, only 2 posts :) ) is Google.So don't think it's going on the lines of my other blog &lt;a href='http://googlinx.blogspot.com'&gt;Googlinx&lt;/a&gt;.To prove my point now I am going to post one of my self created theories-PANORAMA.PANORAMA is what determines a product's success in the industry.PANORAMA stands for&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;P&lt;/big&gt;        -       Popularity&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;A &lt;/big&gt;       -      Advertising&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;N &lt;/big&gt;       -        Need&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;O &lt;/big&gt;       -       Onliness &lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;R &lt;/big&gt;       -        Rate&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;A &lt;/big&gt;       -        Availability&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;M&lt;/big&gt;        -       Marking&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;A&lt;/big&gt;        -        Appearence&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;Popularity:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    &lt;br/&gt;    This point corresponds to not the reach to the people but to the talk among them. That means it depends on what do the people think about your product,how good do they rate it.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;Advertising:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;   &lt;br/&gt;    One of the very important factor in the success of the product,this decides the reach to the customers.So this factor corresponds to the amount of advertisement the product has got-it migh be directly from the manufacturing company,or by reviewers or by some controversories . &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;Need:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    As you know,no one will purchase a product just because it's very nice one or it has a great popularity,they buy it because they "need" it.That's why this factor has made its place in the success of a product.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;Onliness:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    Onliness or uniqueness of a product will also contribute to the success of a product.If your product is unique in its own way,then it might have a chance to win over other.If not, how would buying your product or a competitor's affect the customer?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;Rate:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    Rate corresponds to the cost of your product compared to the other similar products in the field.So to make your product success you should sell at a cheaper cost and to sell it at cheaper cost you should check out your manufacturing processes(yeah,I need not tell that).&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;Availability:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    The availability of your product also makes an impact on the success.Do you like to buy a soap in your street or in the other part of town?So you have to make it as easily available as it can be.This factor will be a very crucial one when it comes to FMCG products.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;Marking:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    Dictionary meaning of this term turns out to be "evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score" .So for your product to be success it means it should be marked well.It could be marked well when it's of high quality.So this factor corresponds directly to the quality of the product.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;Appearence:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    You may think it might not be a major factor in all products.But whatever your product may be - may it be an FMCG or a service delivered or an automotive ,this factor is very important.By appearence it doesn't only mean that it should be good looking.It means that the product should also be good in terms of usability nd deliverability.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    Though it may not be always possible to have all the PANORAMA in your product,but the amount of it you have is what determines the success of your product.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-4922733260540318509?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/4922733260540318509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/panorama-simple-theory.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/4922733260540318509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/4922733260540318509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/panorama-simple-theory.html' title='PANORAMA-A simple theory'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-3036886448291307025</id><published>2008-02-05T23:08:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-05T23:10:49.303+05:30</updated><title type='text'>What if?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'&gt;It often fascinates me to see people speculating over different things even though they know that they can't change what is going to happen.And by that statement don't think I don't fall into this group.Direct to the point-"What if Microsoft overtakes Yahoo?and what if Google succeeds in blocking Microsoft's bid?" .I'll deal the point in a  business oriented view rather than customer oriented.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;What if MS wins?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;small&gt;    Microsoft could stop the decreasing popularity of hotmail by joining with yahoomail and make its top position secure in mail and IM categories.This could be a blow to Gmail's aspiration of becoming number one in mail.The loss in IM does not cause direct effect as Gtalk(Google's IM client) doesn't serve any ads though it has some indirect effects.check out the following analysis of the visitors to 3 sites.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div align='center'&gt;&lt;a href='http://siteanalytics.compete.com/yahoomail.com+gmail.com+hotmail.com?metric=uv'&gt;&lt;img src='http://home.compete.com.edgesuite.net/yahoomail.com+gmail.com+hotmail.com_uv_310.png'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    Microsoft could take on Yahoo's advertising network adding to its &lt;a href='http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/18/microsoft-pays-6-billion-for-aquantive/'&gt;acquisition of aQuantive&lt;/a&gt; so as to give strong threat to Google which has the largest ad network.But it may not be the main threat for Google's adserving network.Its threat is from smaller ones in field like  WidgetBucks , Adbrite etc.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;     Microsoft could take hold of Yahoo's Flickr which is already a leader in the field.Google's Picasa could suffer from one more blow.They also get hold of Y!Answers and Y!Finance the top runners in their respective fields.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    The Yahoo share price could rise on the tide of Microsoft's goodwill and affect the already declining GOOG share value.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    This could also be considered as gateway for Microsoft's web dominance adding to its dominance in the  Desktop and OS areas.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/small&gt;What if Google succeeds in blocking?&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    This could secure Google's search and adserving share causing it to increase its internal resources.This could also make Yahoo,the main competitor to its services, be dependent on it.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    This could be a strong blow to Microsoft and would motivate Google into entering its most speculated Productivity tools and OS  areas.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    They could become the dominators who oppose dominance. Their advocacy against Microsoft's dominance would have reached the people causing them to dominate.&lt;br/&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;    The GOOG share price could rise due to the ride making it increase its assets. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    Should be a tit-for-tat to Microsoft for interfering in its purchase of DoubleClick  and could degrade the future hopes of Microsoft of web dominance.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    Google might turn more aggressive in its policies giving rise to some more new developments in their fields.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Finally, in a different view ,as a normal user of thyir services I would like to &lt;a href='http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7875'&gt;quote this&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Add it up and you have a monopoly pissing match with Google and its search dominance in one corner and Microsoft and its Windows market share in the other. Pick your poison.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-3036886448291307025?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/3036886448291307025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-if.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/3036886448291307025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/3036886448291307025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-if.html' title='What if?'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-4819980612042613992</id><published>2008-02-04T11:48:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-04T11:52:03.540+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fortune'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='analysis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='employee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Google'/><title type='text'>Google's employee satisfaction</title><content type='html'>&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The story is a bit old but may be the analysis will be not.As all of you might be knowing that Google topped the Fortune's list of &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2007/full_list/"&gt;"100 Best companies to work for"&lt;/a&gt; again this year, let us analyze Google in this perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;big&gt;Employee's Perspective:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;small&gt; &lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The first factor that makes Google to top the list is the college like environment in the Googleplex. There is nothing like dress code there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page , they themselves just in their early&amp;nbsp; 30's&amp;nbsp; know the youth pulse and as majority of employees there are from the new young generation, this clicks very well among the employees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The Google employees (called Googlers,in Google's jargon) hold their pride in saying they work for the best company in the world.The company has taken measures about not letting the employees go off their pride.The company's policy allows their employers to say proudly that they are working "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"(from &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/"&gt;Google's corporate overview&lt;/a&gt;) , instead of saying they are "coding" or "selling ads" .That makes them proud of themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; At Googleplex(Google's campus) , Googlers have facilities like beach volleyball,soccer,videogames,pool tables and png pong.They even play roller hockey twice a week.This makes the employers really feel like they are at college campus, instead of being in an office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The workplace at Google is so comforting that it reminds me of the work environment shown to the employees in the movie "AntiTrust".Of course, I meant it just in the workspace environment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The other factor which might seem silly is that Google provides free meals to all employees at their café (known as "Charlie's Place").The food is seemingly very nice that it made &lt;a href="http://www.gene.com"&gt;Genentech&lt;/a&gt;(company which was no.1 in the above ratings before Google and is the inspiration for Google's culture) CEO and Google board member Art Levinson say, "Here I am a guy who can afford a good meal, and every time I go to a Google board meeting, I don't leave until ten o'clock at night because I get a free dinner there". There are also free doctors,swimming spa,washing machines etc there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; All Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time (one day per week) on projects that interest them.This makes their work far from turning&amp;nbsp; monotonous and makes them enjoy their work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;big&gt;Employer's Perspective:&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; What it takes to create a college like environment in the company is just a bit of informality added to the offices and as Google is not a kind of business where there's a direct interaction with the customers ,they can afford his without loosing the feel of officialness. In return, what you get is an innovative employees instead of those age old traditional ones .And as Google runs on innovation, it surely helps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; There is not much of effort to be put in enhancing the employees' pride.But when it comes to the talk of the company among aspiring employees , it does a huge impact and makes the brains vie for job at Google.So&amp;nbsp; they have a wide range of&amp;nbsp; job seekers&amp;nbsp; to select from.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The operational costs of Google form 30% of their revenues (taken from &lt;a href="http://investor.google.com/releases/2007Q4.html"&gt;2007 Q4 results&lt;/a&gt; ).That's not a very high number.So it proves that to provide facilities like free meals,sports,good workspace environment etc., it doesn't cost much for them.But in return there's a high range of employee satisfaction. When an employee is offered to jump to some other high paying companies ,they would surely interrogate about the availability of these facilities there.So the company can never far about the major problem of software companies - "Employee migration".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Though the allocation of 20% time on individual projects may seem loss of work time, if you know that some of Google's newer services, such as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail" title="Gmail"&gt;Gmail&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_News" title="Google News"&gt;Google News&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut" title="Orkut"&gt;Orkut&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdSense" title="AdSense"&gt;AdSense&lt;/a&gt; originated from these independent endeavors, you wouldn't dare to say that again.The advantage is as they are developed in Google itself,the Googlers would prefer it to sell to Google ,rather than some other high offering company.This way evolution of new Google products is made possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Google's release of IPO has made many of Googlers millionaires making it the company with mots number of millionaires. The Googlers who are holding the stocks know well about the company.So they won't go for short term selling resulting in the rise of GOOG's share price.As majority of Google's 271million shares are&amp;nbsp; with Googlers (source -&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;) , the market speculations won't affect it badly.This makes the company's assets raise.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;big&gt;Conclusion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/big&gt;Due to the above reasons , it makes Google a Best company to work for from an employee's perspective and profitable from&amp;nbsp; the&amp;nbsp; employer's perspective. The&amp;nbsp; Google's success story should give rise to new trends in the organizational culture and values. It doesn't cost much to provide your employees their freedom and comfort. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-4819980612042613992?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/4819980612042613992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/googles-employee-satisfaction_03.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/4819980612042613992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/4819980612042613992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/googles-employee-satisfaction_03.html' title='Google&apos;s employee satisfaction'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978130773730686001.post-2061416949534961796</id><published>2008-02-04T11:35:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-04T11:54:22.989+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Intro'/><title type='text'>Hello "Venture Adventurers"</title><content type='html'>Hello everyone.I am LuckyMurari(my internet nick).I am a student from BITS-Pilani, India's one of the premier engineering institutes.I used to have many ideas(rather say opinions) regarding business        and entrepreneurship. But never did I put them in paper.But making start with this blog so as to compete in "&lt;a href="http://efactor.blogspot.com"&gt;BITS Blogger's Challenge&lt;/a&gt;".Though, I am starting it as just an entry for the competition,I plan to continue writing here.Hope every one likes my reviews,ideas and opinions regarding different businesses&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6978130773730686001-2061416949534961796?l=black-money.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/feeds/2061416949534961796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/hello-venture-adventurers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/2061416949534961796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6978130773730686001/posts/default/2061416949534961796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://black-money.blogspot.com/2008/02/hello-venture-adventurers.html' title='Hello &quot;Venture Adventurers&quot;'/><author><name>LuckyMurari</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10347692345045219858</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jjhtH0pA3Jk/SyYck-HjHSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/sZUL5FTu498/S220/Yoyo.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
