New Domain Names To Become Available

Relief may be on the way for small businesses stuck with bad Web addresses.

Next year, the organization that oversees the Internet will start selling rights to an unlimited number of new top-level domains — the suffixes like .com that appear at the end of Web-site names. Domains likely to appear include those that take their names from popular subjects, types of businesses and geographic locations, such as .books, .flowers and .nyc.

The good news for small businesses is that if a company currently has a .com address that is cumbersome or hard to remember, like joesflowersnyc.com, it may soon get a shot at a new address that’s identical to the name of the company, or one that is just easier to find on the Web — say, joes.flowers or joesflowers.nyc. read more

Reading for the Poolside MBA

Summer’s a great time for MBAs to catch up on some of the latest business thinking. Here are some suggestions from B-school professors

School is out, the sun is shining, and the temptation to forget about structured finance and pick up a trashy novel for beach reading is overwhelming. But those who are determined to get ahead of the MBA pack and beat out the competition for jobs in the increasingly competitive business world know that getting through an ambitious summer reading list is an assignment worth accepting.

The best thing about a summer reading list is that you can customize it to meet your interests as though you’re your own professor. Also, you can complete it at your own pace, whether you’re reading on a chaise poolside or waiting for the bus you take to your internship. And you don’t have to do it on your own. You can start with suggestions from some professors at top American business schools, who recently shared their suggested summer reading lists with BusinessWeek.com. Another good source is BusinessWeek‘s list of best-selling business books. read more

5 Trends That Will Change Society

Author Richard Watson examines emerging patterns and developments and society, politics, science and technology, media and entertainment, and other industries in his book Future Files: A History of the Next 50 Years — and makes educated, and witty speculations as to where they might take us.

He listed the top 5 trends that will change society over the next 50 years: GLOBALIZATION, LOCALIZATION, POLARIZATION, ANXIETY, MEANING.

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