From SmartMoney.com: The online retailer announced Wednesday that has added CDs to the list of items it allows shoppers to trade, which includes books, video games, DVDs and electronics. Sellers get a free shipping label to mail in their items, and receive store credit based on quality of the discs. Just how much credit customers [...]
New from NCSL: Pension Legislation Database
Filed by on April 7, 2012
New from the National Council of State Legislatures and the Pew Center on States: From the Database Intro: Current legislation on pensions and retirement is available in a searchable database. You can search 2012 pensions and retirement bills by topic, primary author, state, bill number, status or keyword. The database is updated every two weeks. [...]
Reference: World Trade Organization Launches New Database on Preferential Trade Arrangements
Filed by on March 16, 2012
From the World Trade Organization: After four years of negotiations and a year of work by WTO members on implementation measures and data collection, the WTO launched on Wednesday a new publicly available database on non-reciprocal preferential schemes. [Clip] The Transparency Mechanism for Preferential Trade Arrangements is a WTO agreement concluded in December 2010 which [...]
Businessweek.com Receives a Makeover
Filed by on March 12, 2012
From the Bloomberg Blog: We’ve given Businessweek.com a much-needed makeover. It’s cleaner. It’s more timely. It’s got personality. Click thru and you’ll see immediately that the site looks different—a lot more like our vibrantly redesigned print edition and tablet app. But the changes are more than just cosmetic…Every hour of every day we’re offering web-exclusive [...]
Reference: Lists & Rankings: Music's Top 40 Money Makers 2012
Filed by on March 12, 2012
via Billboard: As the concert business rebounded in 2011, touring remained the biggest source of income for the top earners in the U.S. music business. Billboard’s sixth annual Money Makers ranking includes veteran road warriors U2, Kenny Chesney and Bon Jovi, as well as other artists emerging in recent years as A-list arena headliners, from [...]
Reference: Doing Business at a Glance 2012, iOS App from World Bank Group (Free)
Filed by on March 9, 2012
From the iTunes App Store: Doing Business at a Glance 2012 lets you compare the rankings and indicators from Doing Business 2012 (DB2012) and Doing Business 2011 (DB2011), all without the need for an internet connection. The app presents rankings and quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights across 183 economies [...]
Reference: Bloomberg Launches Global Daily Billionaires Ranking
Filed by on March 5, 2012
Direct to Bloomberg World’s Billionaire Index The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s 20 richest people. In calculating net worth, we strive to provide the most transparent estimates available. Each Bloomberg Billionaire profile contains a detailed analysis of how that person’s fortune has been tallied. The index is a dynamic measure [...]
EBSCO Adds More than 1 Million Company Profiles to Business Source Complete
Filed by on February 28, 2012
From EBSCO: EBSCO Publishing has added detailed company information for more than 1.1 million of the world’s largest public and private companies, along with the addition of a Company View feature to Business Source Complete. The new Company View feature provides robust company information with well-organized links to business articles, profiles and news stories. Company [...]
New Online Database: NORMLEX (Information System on International Labour Standards)
Filed by on February 20, 2012
From the International Labour Organization: NORMLEX is a new information system which brings together information on International Labour Standards (such as ratification information, reporting requirements, comments of the ILO’s supervisory bodies, etc.) as well as national labour and social security laws. Direct to Database See Also: NATLEX NATLEX is the database of national labour, social [...]
Reference: Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2012
Filed by on February 15, 2012
From an Economist Intelligence Unit Announcement: According to the latest Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, London sits among the twenty most expensive cities in the world. Manchester, the other UK city in the report, lies in 53rd place in the ranking of over 130 cities. Even though inflation levels [...]
