Australian Price Gouging Inquiry Targets Apple, Microsoft And Others
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, Home Startups Mobile Gadgets Europe Video More Enterprise Venture Social GreenTech Gaming Opinion Drama Events CrunchBase Hot topics Apple Facebook Google Android Disrupt NYC Hackathon news Comment Australian Price Gouging Inquiry Targets Apple , Microsoft And Others Frederic Lardinois posted 36 mins ago Comments View Staff Page Follow me on twitter Getting a new laptop or buying a new license for an operating system is often cheaper in the U.S . than in most other countries . Europeans , for example , are used to paying a hefty premium for Apple products and the situation is similar in Australia , where the cheapest MacBook Air currently costs about 15 more than in the United States . Now , however , the Australian government is starting a parliamentary inquiry into these pricing
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Reuters is reporting that Nokia is exploring selling the Vertu phone line to holding company Permira for $264.26 million, freeing itself from the difficult process of selling phones no one wants to people who should know better. Nokia called Vertu a "non-core asset."
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In all the talk about themes, plug-ins, retweets and pings, it is easy to lose sight of the TRUE purpose of a blog. And that purpose is COMMUNICATION.
Might seem obvious on the surface, but seeing how a lot of people blog, they don't really get it. In this episode, David breaks down exactly what this means and how it should impact what you do on your blog.
I have done my share of hourly consulting for my usual rate of $250/hour. Does the money suck? Of course, not.
But, I'm shutting it down. And I'll explain why. And why - if you do hourly billing for clients - you might want to think about the consequences.
This whole online business space is a pretty interesting beast.
People everywhere want the outcome. They want the income stream that they control. They want the freedom from the 9-5 job.
But, then when it comes time to actually DO some of this stuff to make it happen, we all too often fall flat on our faces.
This comes in several typical forms, such as:
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We live in a world where there’s Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Email, iPhones, iPads and computers. We have access to the Internet which contains billions of pages of information.
Yet even though we have all this great information and tools at our disposal, we still struggle to get the most important stuff done when building your blogging business. Aren’t these tools supposed to help us be more productive?
Sometimes, people like me can't help but wonder why others read our advice and don't actually apply it.
Case in point...
A recent survey I ran over the weekend shows that 56.4% of bloggers (at least in my audience) don't engage in any kind of email marketing.
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The 80/20 rule is a pretty well known fact. It goes like this:
80% of your results will come from 20% of your efforts.
Which means that approximately 20% of the things we actually do are responsible for a huge majority of the results we achieve.