Did you know that after salaries and benefits, corporate travel and entertainment (T&E) is the second largest controllable expense, and in most cases a corporate card programme is now considered not just best—but essential—practice? Well indeed it is. Corporate travel and entertainment (T&E) expense accounts are a sizeable chunk of a company’s outgoings. Most people …
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Tooth Fairy: Is there an App for that?
January 24, 2012Interesting dilemma in my household these days. My eight year-old is dropping teeth like flies. The challenge is the tooth fairy doesn’t always come on time. We’re thinking the tooth fairy, like most of us, is more accustomed to electronic forms of payment and is having a hard time carrying around all that cash. And perhaps leaving …
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Going Steady: Peggy Sue Has My Facebook Password
January 18, 2012Despite the best intentions of parents, educators, and the media, teenagers continue to engage in risky behaviors that adults don’t approve of. I’m talking about teens sharing their Internet passwords with their boyfriends and girlfriends. The wisdom of this trend highlights an important issue in digital culture that is transforming how people—and businesses—act online: How …
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Get Ready for T-Commerce
January 5, 2012Back in the day, there was e-commerce, consumers shopping for goods and services on their PCs. Then, along came smartphones, which ushered in m-commerce. Now, a new form factor has created a new term — t-commerce, consumers shopping from their tablets. Tablets will reach one-third of U.S. adults by 2015 via a 51 percent CAGR …
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Emerging Markets and the Global Economy
December 12, 2011There is no question that the global economy today would be worse off without dynamic emerging markets. But the rise of these emerging markets, especially the giants of China and India, is a mixed blessing. The process of rapid industrialization of two continent-sized economies inevitably comes with disruptive, and often unpredictable, consequences that can be …
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