Ryan Hoback, Founder of the Motivated Entrepreneur, LLC. a business incubation firm and parent company to What I Want Podcasting,llc. was chosen by MasterCard to offer advice on developing a business plan for your small business.

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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s stock surged to a new year high Thursday after the computer and printer maker reported a third-quarter profit that beat expectations, raised its fourth-quarter and full-year guidance and said its board had authorized a $6 billion share buyback.

HP shares rose $2.01, or 5.8 percent, to $36.44 in early trading, above the stock's previous 52-week high of $36.23 on the New York Stock Exchange.

CEO Mark Hurd said an aggressive cost-cutting campaign would wind down in the current quarter, when several thousand employees would lose their jobs.

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The exclusive club of women running the nation's largest public companies grew by one Monday.

PepsiCo, maker of Pepsi, Gatorade and Frito-Lay snacks, named Indra K. Nooyi as chief executive, making her No. 2 among female CEOs at firms in the Fortune 500, which are ranked in size by revenue. She takes over Oct. 1.

Nooyi, who was born in India and earned an undergraduate and master's degree there, has been called "a true internationalist."

She started her career in India, including a post at Johnson & Johnson, and later moved on to jobs at the Boston Consulting Group and Motorola. She has a master's degree in public and private management from Yale University.
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Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC, is a gathering of geeks ready for a deep dive into a pool of technologies. But WWDC also has a tradition of new product introductions, and last week was no exception, with two major hardware offerings and a tantalising look at Mac OS X 10.5, codenamed Leopard.


Steve Jobs' keynote speech highlighted two 64bit Intel Xeon-based systems, Xserve and Mac Pro. Both are based on Intel's just-released Core Microarchitecture Xeon and are offered at price points well below the PowerPC-based systems they replace.
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Forbes Inc., the publisher of Forbes magazine and Forbes.com, announced Monday that it had sold a minority stake in its key media properties to Elevation Partners, a $1.9 billion private equity fund with offices in New York and Menlo Park, Calif.

It is the first time that the 89-year-old, family-owned company had sold a major stake to an outside investor. Elevation, which counts U2 front man Bono as a co-founder and partner, will be a key minority partner in Forbes Media, a newly formed company that will comprise Forbes magazine, Forbes.com, the company's radio and video operations, conference business and specialty newsletters. Other Forbes properties, such as American Heritage and American Legacy magazines, will remain with the Forbes family.

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Ad-supported video continues to gain momentum online. Google has teamed up with Viacom to provide video clips to websites that are part of Google's AdSense Network. Viacom is the parent company to MTV, VH1, CBS and a number of other premium networks. The deal will be positioned as a revenue generator for Google, Viacom, and AdSense partners. All three will split revenues derived from the tie-in of advertising and content.

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Time Warner said it earned $1 billion in the second quarter as growth in its cable television business and Internet advertising offset a drop in subscriptions to its AOL online service.

With subscriptions falling, the media conglomerate today released details of its plan to give away AOL software and e-mail accounts for free. The move is the latest attempt to revive the struggling Internet provider as it faces intense competitive pressure from rivals like Google and Yahoo that offer similar free services at no charge.

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