GoodJob: Using an iPod touch to create better employee retention

Fast food, also known as quick-service restaurants (CSRs) are a high-turnover industry, as everyone knows. The loss of a single employee, to the company, can amount to a $2,000 expense. If that employee happens to be management, then the cost is closer to $15,000. The employees are undertrained, overworked, underpaid and generally under-appreciated. “So what can we do to make them smile 1 more time per day?” That’s the question asked byGoodJobco-founder Chris Blanz and his partner Scott Rouse....

4 min · 721 words · Catherine Smith

Goodsie makes setting up a gorgeous online shop dead simple

If you’re someone that’s trying to sell some of your wares online, you know how much of a challenge that can be. You either have to deal with website plug-ins that are difficult to master or end up using third-party sites that offer limited control and customization. These barriers to entry don’t encourage online retailing and as a result you end up leaving the thoughts of setting up shop online behind....

2 min · 370 words · John Brown

Goodyear joins Michelin in launching specialist EV tires

Earlier in May, MichelinintroducedthePilot Sport EV tire, its first tire especially made to address the need of electric vehicles. Now we have another car tire manufacturer who’s focusing on the EV industry: Goodyear. In apress release, the company announced its first EV-dedicated replacement tire in North America, theElectricDrive GT. Why would EVs need special tires to begin with, you ask? Well, it all comes down to weight.Electric vehicles generally weigh more than conventional cars, which means they wear tires down much faster....

3 min · 461 words · Marco Russell

Google +1 launches, adding social search to the party

While Google was busy being all Googly and charting the open web, a student in his Harvard dorm room popped up to dominate the social web. Today, Facebook is undoubtedly Google’s most powerful threat as search becomes more social by the nanosecond. To compete,SearchEngineLand reportsthat Google’s +1 search product launches today, its very own version of Facebook’s “Like” button or Twitter’s “Tweet this.” The +1 button will allow you to share search results and adverts on Google....

3 min · 588 words · Nathaniel Jackson

Google accused of blocking third-party Android search apps in Korean antitrust complaints

Google finds itself as the subject of yet another antitrust complaint, this time taking fire from two Korean Internet search sites that accuse the search giant of blocking them from embedding their search applications within the Android operating system. Bloomberg reportsthat NHN Corp. and Daum Communications Corp. have filed complaints with Korea’s Fair Trade Commission, accusing Google of banning all South Korean phone manufacturers from including search applications under its marketing contract, delaying the certification of handset makers that “violated the condition”....

2 min · 263 words · Paul Harris
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