| 8 ways to avoid travel-cost chaos
My small company is expanding its client base to other parts of the country, so this year promises to be filled with airports and hotel rooms. But our travel budget is tight, so we need to be smart about controlling costs that can easily get crazy. Any ideas? According to a business-spending index compiled by Visa, small businesses now shell out nearly $100 billion annually for travel and entertainment. That makes travel and entertainment one of the largest controllable expenses many business owners have. It is easy to overspend on travel. If you plan ahead, book airline tickets online and shop for the best price, you can pay a fraction of what the person sitting next to you paid for the same ticket. By using air, hotel, car rental and other loyalty programs, you can accumulate points toward freebies and upgrades, further lowering your costs or at least raising your comfort level.
Three Consecutive Sellouts Highlight WWE’s Road To WrestleMania ...
BUSINESS WIRE)--World Wrestling Entertainment® continued its Road to WrestleMania 23 live event tours with three consecutive sellouts in California this week, grossing more than $1.4 million in ticket sales. On Sunday night, more than 17,000 fans packed the Staples Center in Los Angeles for WWE's No Way Out® pay-per-view. The following night, "Monday Night RAW®" Superstars performed to a capacity crowd of more than 8,600 at the Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield. On Tuesday night, a sold-out crowd of more than 11,000 witnessed "Friday Night SmackDown®" and "ECW®: Extreme Championship Wrestling™" at the ipayOne Center in San Diego. "We continue to see a great reception from our fans to our Road to WrestleMania live events as we tour around the country," said Geof Rochester, Senior Vice President, Marketing.
Ferrari Meridian F80 Home Entertainment System looks fast even ...
Ferrari lends its name to lots of hot stuff, such as laptops and, uh, cars, and now it extends that brand into home audio with its Meridian F80 Home Entertainment System. The Italian carmaker teams up with high-end audiophile brand Meridian, which brings plenty of aural credibility to the project. We're hearing the resulting system sounds good enough to raise an eyebrow or two. This odd-looking DVD-playing FM/AM/DAB radio is really just a glorified boombox. Shaped like half a car tire, it recalls its Ferrari heritage with plenty of power, 80 watts from three amplifiers feeding two drivers up front and a rear-firing sub. Hook up a TV and you can have yourself a rafter-rattling DVD mini theater. But there's more to this package than just earth-shaking sound. There's that fabled fit and finish — it's Italian luxo-sport all the way, painted up in your favorite glossy Ferrari colors including white, yellow, silver, and of course there's the sizzling Ferrari red, too.
Fans snatch up pricey tickets to catch Korean pop star Rain in City
Over 70 per cent of the tickets for Korean pop star Rains concerts in HCM City on March 10-11 have been snapped up already with local newspapers describing it as unprecedented. The 4,000 best seats, each of them priced at VND2.5 million (US$156), were sold out by last week. Organisers of Rains shows, Viet Nams D&D Advertising Company and Koreas Enterone Entertainment Company, decided early this week to increase the number of tickets for each show from 20,000 to 24,000. Rain, also known as Bi, will perform as part of his Rain World Tour 06-07 and his foreign fans have bought some of the most expensive tickets. Over 1,000 Japanese fans have even booked rooms at the New World Hotel where Rain will check in on March 7. The superstar, one of the best-known male singers in Asia, will sing 19 Korean and English pop songs at each concert on what will be his second tour of Viet Nam.
EA Drops In On Skateboarding
On a typically cold and wet night in San Francisco, Tuesday, February 27, video-game publisher Electronic Arts held a special press conference for the pre-release of its new skateboard video game Skate. Although its still in the production stages, the new game will feature digital characters of some of the biggest names in professional skateboarding, including Danny Way, Mike Carroll, Paul Rodriguez, Jerry Hsu, and Chris Cole. According to the games producers, Skate offers players a unique, feel-based skateboarding experience. On the heels of Tony Hawks Pro Skaterthe wildly popular video-game series produced by ActivisionSkate provides an experience thats similar to actual skateboarding. This is the closest thing you can get to being on a board through a video game, says EA Associate Producer Jay Balmer.
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