If your credit is less than perfect, you’ll have a more difficult time obtaining and using a credit card. The flip side is that responsible use of a credit card is a fantastic way to rebuild your credit score.Even with bad credit, you have some great options to start rebuilding your financial future. The best credit cards for bad credit come in two different varieties: secured and unsecured low credit cards.
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Should Your LLC Elect S Corporation Status? | Allbusiness.com
Many entrepreneurs choose to structure their businesses as the ever-so-popular LLC Limited Liability Company or S Corporation. Business owners may struggle with the choice between the structures, but many times but don’t realize that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. It’s possible to have your cake and eat it too by forming an LLC and then electing S corporation status.This is a particularly sound strategy if you have an LLC and the payroll taxes self-employment taxes on the owner/s are high. Here we’ll break down some of the key details on why you should consider an LLC with S corporation election, and how you go about doing it.
Surprise! Icebergs Spotted in Lake Superior | LiveScience.com
Though it’s starting to feel like summer in the Great Lakes region, with temperatures soaring into the 80s Fahrenheit, icebergs are still loitering in Lake Superior — a reminder of an especially harsh winter.Last week, a marine warden with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was patrolling Lake Superior when she spotted seagulls resting on a huge chunk of ice near Madeline Island, off the northern coast of Wisconsin.
New front in Amazon kerfuffle: Warner movies | Money.cnn.com
Amazon, has turned off the preorder function for DVDs of prominent Warner Bros. films as it seeks to raise pressure on the company during negotiations.”The Lego Movie,” for example, is listed as “currently unavailable” on Amazon. Set for release in the home video marketplace on June 17, there is no option to place a preorder.Warner is owned by Time Warner TWX, the parent company of CNNMoney.The missing preorder button illustrates the aggressive stance Amazon is taking in its negotiations with suppliers. Other retailers play hardball too — but Amazon’s gamesmanship is especially visible because it’s online.
Ringly Lets You Know Who’s Calling By The Buzz Of Your Finger | TechCrunch
Christina Mercando was a busy gal working her way through the eBay product department. Problem was friends and family could never get a hold of her.Some women have the habit of keeping their phones deep in the recesses of their purses, thus never catching that text and missing when their moms call. So one day while Mercando was looking down at the rings on her hands and thinking about her phone dilemma, lightning struck. If women with this habit were to ever know when someone was trying to get a hold of them without digging through their purse, they would simply need to put a ring on it.
This Startup Wants to Turn Your Old Electronics Into Solid Gold| WIRED
Sometimes, numbers say it all.About 50 million tons of electronic waste were generated worldwide in 2012, according to a United Nations report. The same report predicted that number would grow to 65.4 million tons of e-waste by 2017. To put that in context, that’s about 200 Empire State Buildings or, for the more worldly, 11 Great Pyramids of Giza.While some of that waste—from old televisions to smartphones—is refurbished and recycled, a troubling amount of it is shipped to landfills around the world, where often it’s incinerated, leaching toxic chemicals into the environment. In Guiyu, China, a now infamous dumping ground for electronics, studies have found startlingly high levels of lead in children’s bloodstreams.
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For a Memory Boost, Ditch the Laptop and Write It Down by Hand | Entrepreneur.com
In our technology saturated, hyper-connected sci-fi reality, handwriting often seems like a relic of the distant past. Communication happens through email, notes are taken on tablets, and schedules are marked up on smartphones — who has time to scrawl anything out by hand anymore?But perhaps we shouldn’t be so quick to forsake the act of putting the pen to the page. Turns out, there are real benefits to be gleaned from the process, benefits that typing can’t replicate.
The Data You Ignore Is More Valuable Than You Thought | Forbes.com
Business leaders understand the importance of data, but just because you’re checking analytics doesn’t mean you haven’t also overlooked some important metrics.The new world of data isn’t just about gathering new information; all kinds of data that your business collects effortlessly can provide enormous value if you can look at it the right way.Finding the needle in of your haystack of data sources can be a lot more difficult than it might seem. To explore the untapped wells of information that companies should be paying attention to, I recently sat down with Catherine Havasi, co-founder and CEO of Luminoso, one of the most advanced data analytics companies out there today
7 Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur | Businessnewsdaily.com
Every entrepreneur has a reason for starting his or her business. Most of them say it was to follow their passion, or to solve a problem they encountered in their own life. But sometimes, a startup founder’s heart just isn’t in the right place.”You can always tell what drives a business by the story it tells,” said Mark Sephton, a public speaker and personal mentor to entrepreneurs. “Does the business look to give, add value, encourage, inspire, inform and educate? Or does it purely promote and sell its products and services like a bull in a china shop? A successful and sustainable business must be built through and for people.”
Seattle approves $15 minimum wage | Money.cnn.com
Seattle’s city council on Monday unanimously approved an increase in the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, making it the nation’s highest by far.The increase was formally proposed by Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, and his spokesman said he intends to sign the ordinance on Tuesday.
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