Archives for: August 2007
Million Dollar Wiki Founder Leaves College

I was intrigued to read on the Million Dollar Wiki blog today that the founder, Graham Langdon, has made the decision to drop out of college at UConn to devote his full attention to building his site. The Million Dollar Wiki is a site that is selling wiki pages by topic… currently at a rate of $100 per page. I [...]

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Dividends Are King – Bank of America (BAC)

Bank Of America (BAC) is the third stock I will be highlighting from the Dividends Are King blog series. Bank of America has been in the news lately for its $2 Billion investment in the beleaguered mortgage lender Countrywide Financial (CFC). BofA is a financial holdings company that operates in the United States as well as internationally. That $2 Billion [...]

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Quixtar Wins Three Lawsuits

Today, in a Grand Rapids, Michigan courtroom a judge sided with Alticor’s Quixar on all three issues that are at the basis of what the TEAM organization wants from their class action lawsuit filed in California – release from non-compete, and non-solicitation clauses and the use of proprietary Quixtar trade secrets. The court is declaring that the topics discussed at [...]

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Dividends Are King – Citigroup (C)

The second stock in my Dividends Are King series is Citigroup (C). Citigroup is in the business of banking and provides a multitude of services to its customers ranging from credit cards, student loans, checking/savings account and business credit services. Citigroup was founded in 1812 and has gone through many name changes over the years as it acquires more business [...]

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MSN Invites Publishers Into Content Ads Beta

I just received an e-mail from MSN that because I am an adCenter advertiser that I will be able to participate in the Content Ads Beta program beginning August 29. I’m interested to see what kind of payouts can be earned with this google adsense competitor, as the yahoo publisher program is just not a worthy competitor in my experience [...]

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TEAM Fights Back With Restraining Order

The TEAM is fighting back against Quixtar’s for what I imagine is the slanderous blog posts and e-mails they’ve been sending by petitioning for a restraining order against the network marketing giant. Afterall, why is it fair that Quixtar can continue to blast away at TEAM, but they are not entitled to defend themselves? The hearing has been moved to [...]

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Four Winds Casino Resort

I just got home from a visit to the new casino in southwest Michigan in the city of New Buffalo, the Four Winds Casino & Resort. I enjoy making regular visits to the area’s casinos, primarily within the state of Michigan or just past the southern border into Indiana. The Four Winds opened to the public on August 7, 2007 [...]

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Blogs I've Been Reading

There’s many great blogs out there and I try to read a lot of them. Well here’s a list of some of the blogs I have been reading over the past month. I like reading all different kinds of blogs with a wide array of topics and I’ll keep sharing the good ones here. Blogging Experiment – Ben Cook is [...]

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New Blog Milestone – Alexa Rank

The one week Alexa rank for ShaunCarter.com has dropped below 200,000 for the first time today, thanks in part to the large amount of new traffic coming in for the Quixtar/Team stories I have been posting over the last week. The next goal is to break that 100,000 barrier. [tags]shaun carter, alexa, traffic, quixtar, team, team of destiny, amway, alticor, [...]

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Emergency Fed Decision

The Federal Reserve pushed through an emergency cut in the discount rate window Friday morning before the stock market opened by 50 basis points, or a half percent. This decision was cheered by traders, who a should have been led by Jim Cramer after his ranting and raving on CNBC the other day demanding that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke cut [...]

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