Work at Home Business Ideas

Springwise:
Launched in eleven Minneapolis suburbs this month, Get Home Free is a flat rate, prepaid cab card that gets its holder home safely.
Mainly targeted at teenagers and college students, the concept’s initiators are aiming to help out kids who are stuck with car trouble, have been drinking, or whose ride home has fallen through.
Cardholders place […]

CNNMoney.com:
With spa treatments, day care, designer clothes and even special room-service menus, there’s no shortage of amenities for beloved balls of fur. But when families are forced to say goodbye to Fluffy - the $36-billion pet industry falls flat.
About 63 percent of U.S. households own at least one pet, according to the American Pet Products […]

MSNBC:
Nintendo DS players in Japan can now exercise their facial muscles to have nicer smiles and livelier expressions.
A digital camera that comes with the new “Face Training” game fits into the dual-screen, handheld machine to show live video of the player’s own face on the right screen while an animation of a woman’s face illustrates […]

The Associated Press:
When Lisa Landry thinks ahead to holiday shopping for her 9-month-old boy, Ari, her concern isn’t which toy is most exciting. It’s which is safest. Already crossed off from her shopping list: Toys made in China. The string of recalls of Chinese-made toys has Landry, of New York City, and legions of […]

Fortune Small Business Magazine:
Which Americans are leading the surge in entrepreneurship? Aging boomers.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the ranks of the self-employed aged 55 to 65 rose 33 percent in 2006; the number of self-employed 25- to 35-year-olds fell 2 percent.
In a quarterly survey by outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas of […]

Thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday’s chance to win a copy of Ian Jackman’s Eat This. We’ll be contacting the winner later today. Sorry for the late posting on this - we’ll extend this until 9 am EST to enter. But you’ll have 3 more chances this week too.
But you have another chance to […]

From Flickr user abbietabbie
Original post by Rachel and software by Elliott Back

The winning name for this cupcake in Crumbs and Doilies’ Name the Cupcake competition was Gin Yummy! You have until September 14th to enter this month’s competition, though since the prize is a free delivered box of 24 mini cupcakes, only those in Central and SW London are eligible. Even if you’re not in London, […]

Posted on Flickr by flyingsouth
Strawberry cupcake from the Crabapple Cupcake Bakery’s stall at the Magnolia Square craft market.
Original post by Rachel and software by Elliott Back

Sweet Avenue Bake Shop, which started off as a delivery only service in northern New Jersey, opened its doors on Saturday in Rutherford. Some of you may remember them as the people who brought us the subway cupcakes at our Central Park picnic. Here are some photos they posted of their brand new store:
And more […]