A while back we posted about Amazon tightening their relationship with NBC. It seems like Amazon has been quite busy lately as they have just opened their digital music store. Amazon’s digital music store already contains over 2.3 million songs of your favorite artists and the best part is that none of the songs are […]

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The Euro reached a record high yesterday (Thursday), which was worth $1.4065. The Canadian dollar also reached a record high, which was at par with the American dollar for the first time in 30 years. Traders are now foreseeing a slower American economy and a more economic growth overseas. The falling dollar has had an […]

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BusinessTwins was started as a blog to keep you (our readers) informed on interesting and upcoming business stories around the world. It was also created to keep you informed about my brother, Dad, and I on our business journey.
My brother and I started researching how we could start a business about a year ago […]

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Everyone knows that if you aren’t a customer with Bank of America and use one of their ATM machines, you get charged $2.00. $2.00 is a lot of money, if you withdraw money 50 times a year that is $100 dollars – equivalent to 13.33 hours working a minimum wage job that pays $7.50 […]

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google Inc. co-founders are reportedly paying $1.3 million to NASA-run Moffett Federal Airfield. Why so much money and for what? Well you know how billionaires are…They have Boeing 767 planes to use. The $1.3 million is so they can take off, land, and park their Boeing 767 […]

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Burger King has pledged that they will start offering healthier fast food items for children under 12. They plan on offering flame broiled Chicken Tenders and apples that are cut to resemble thick cut French fries (laugh). I wonder if that is actually going to work.
12 year old: Mom are these fries?
Mom: Yes, […]

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Starbucks has been recognized as a place that lures young kids and teenagers to drink their highly caffeinated and sugary drinks. Even though the Seattle based chain only has a handful of drinks it says that “the under-18 set has become part of the coffee chain’s customer base.” Brandon Borrman, Starbucks’ spokesperson stated that they […]

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On Monday European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet said that the United States market risks spreading throughout the whole nation’s economy. Trichet was speaking as head of the G10 group of central bankers from industrialized and emerging economies, who met at the Bank for International Settlements.
“There is a probability of fallout on the real […]

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Apple Inc., after announcing the drop in price of the Apple iPhone from $600 to $399, Steve Jobs CEO of Apple has released this letter to all iPhone onwers. If this doesn’t persuade you that Apple is the best out their right now I don’t know what will…

To all iPhone customers:
I have received hundreds […]

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A record high was set in the spring on the number of homeowners receiving foreclosure notices, which was caused by problems within the subprime mortgages. Mortgage holders that started the foreclosure process in April-June reached .65 percent, which marks the third consecutive quarter that this figure has set an all-time high.
The delinquency rate, which […]

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