| BT Tradespace spruces up its search
BT Tradespace, the service designed to help small businesses set up an online presence, is to make it easier for its users to sell directly to the consumer. The free service, which launched in April, is already linked to the online payment service PayPal but its upcoming evolution will make the search capabilities on the site more powerful. Ivan Croxford, head of BT Tradespace, admitted that due to not advertising to consumers yet, BT Tradespace has experienced "relatively low" traffic to the site's 28,000 business user profiles. However, he added, BT will start to advertise the service to consumers within the next couple of months. Bill Murphy, managing director of BT Business, said greater integration between BT Tradespace and BT's more traditional online and paper-based directory services will occur in the near future.
Obituaries in the news
Los Angeles literary agent Mickey Freiberg confirmed in an e-mail to The Associated Press that Bonanno died Tuesday in Tucson. The cause of death was a heart attack, according to Bonanno's nephew Anthony Tarantola. Bonano, who escaped mob hits and eventually the mob itself, wrote "Bound by Honor: A Mafioso's Story" in 2000. His Web site describes him as an author, movie producer and lecturer. The book was an attempt to make sense of myths about the Mafia in America, the site says. Bonanno was made a member of the Mafia by his early 20s, according to the site. He was the subject of Gay Talese's book "Honor Thy Father" and co-produced a 1999 miniseries based on the autobiography of his father, known as "Joe Bananas." In 1968 Bonanno was imprisoned on contempt, credit card and other white-collar charges, according to his own biography.
Recap of Saturday, January 12
This past week's Bulls & Bears: Gary B. Smith, Exemplar Capital managing partner; Pat Dorsey, Morningstar.com director of stock research; Scott Bleier, HybridInvestors.com president; Tobin Smith, ChangeWave Research editor, and John "Bradshaw" Layfield, Northeast Securities. Trading Pit: Blame the Primary Election for Wall Street's Historic Sell-Off? Gary B. Smith: Absolutely: The election will have a big impact on how the White House treats certain sectors, as well at how it treats taxes (including corporate taxes). Tobin Smith: Its not helping…but the killer is the REAL unemployment rate which is REALLY about 5.5 percent and going to 6.5 percent because we are in a recession. Yes ChangeWave Research is now forecasting that we are in a stalled economy that goes to negative 1 percent growth in Q2 and Q3.
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