Los Angles Times, 2009 - International Search Engine Company, Google - opens new company in Africa to begin scraping data outside the reach of United States and International Copyright Laws. This is fiction Today I read the Los Angles Times - paper edition (typing with black fingers).  There was an article covering Google Books - the Search Engine’s initiative to digitize every book on the planet in every language.  As it turns out, the French courts generally agree with the US Courts - that digitizing books violates copyright. I am not an international copyright lawyer, but I suspect that Google [...]

On this day in 1773 (as you surely recall from Sister Herman Joseph’s fourth grade class), a group of Colonists, disguised as Indians, boarded 3 British ships at dockside in Boston Harbor. And, as you probably also recall, they threw tons of British tea into the Harbor. And, you probably learned, this was all done to protest the outrageously expensive British tea. Well, you can’t be right about everything. The tea was not expensive; it was cheap - -too cheap. That was the problem. The good people of Boston had been making quite a living smuggling Dutch tea into the [...]

We’re always happy to report great news about companies from our hometown of Buffalo, New Yorik.  As reported in RIS MEDIA this morning, HUNT Real Estate ERA announced that it has formed a new joint venture with Empire Home Realty, Inc. based out of Saratoga Springs. Empire Home Realty currently operates two offices with over 30 agents associated with the firm. The newly established partnership will operate under the name of HUNT Real Estate ERA. Eric Eckardt, who was the Founder and President of Empire Home Realty, is now a General Manager of the region and Partner with HUNT Real [...]

Be sure you set aside money in your budget for the 2010 AFIRE Conference!   It is the most fun and fulfilling conference of the year for female executives in real estate. AFIRE of Awesome Females in Real Estate is a group that is four years old that was formed to provide an educational and networking opportunity for the women who are usually coaching everyone elsso, so they need their own outlet for learning and recharging their batteries. Here’s what Anne St. Dennis from the Montreal Real Estate Board said about her first expeirience at the AFIRE conference: I came back [...]