Archive for August, 2006

  • 1000s of Free Google Books

    1000s of Free Google Books

    A great announcement today to get 1000s of Free Google Books.  Google announced today that you can download 1000s of classic books that have lost thier copyright including authors like Dante, Bolivar, Shakespeare, Aesop, and many others.  You can read about it here: Google Books.

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  • Ebay Partners with Google

    Ebay Partners with Google

    Ebay.com has slowed in revenue growth during 2006, and in an effort to increase its performance, Ebay Partners with Google, announced recently.  The terms of the agreement are not completely spelled out, but Google and Ebay will share ad revenue.  The catch for Ebay is that its partnership with Google is only for ads outside [...]

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  • Google Business Services – Google Apps for Your Domain

    Google Business Services – Google Apps for Your Domain

    A lot of news recently on Google Business Services – Google Apps for Your Domain. It looks like Google is entering the online business services market. Some of the services Google will be offering businesses for free and offering fee packages later include its email, calandar, chat programs, Web site development tools, spreadsheets, and soon [...]

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  • Cleaning up the Books

    Cleaning up the Books

    It has been a great experience transitioning to a pearl company. One of the challenges I have had with my CFO duties is Cleaning up the Books. When I first got here, the books, the finances, and the financial control had some real issues. Without going into details, here is a list of some things [...]

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  • Provo Labs Restructure

    Provo Labs Restructure

    My thoughts on the Provo Labs Restructure that occured a few weeks ago.  I, like Phil Burns, am quite surprised that others have not blogged about this.  Maybe it is because we have been too busy trying to get other projects done.  What I learned from my experience at Provo Labs is not new to [...]

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  • Gifts That Lift

    Gifts That Lift

    This week I joined a new company that has some exciting growth, Gifts That Lift, out of Lehi, UT. Their founder/CEO Wendy Bird has become pretty well known recently in the Utah business community because of the awards and recognition they have received including the 2006 top 25 under 5 from UVEF. Most people know [...]

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