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With the economy in the shape it’s in, now is as good a time as ever to check out the popular practice of microlending. Instead of investing your money in the stock market or real estate, earn interest by helping others. Microlending involves loaning small amounts of money to individuals who are impoverished – often people who are unemployed, entrepreneurs without any money, or people living in poverty.

Net worth refers to the value of total assets minus total liabilities of an individual or a company. Net worth may also be called ‘net assets,’ ‘shareholders’ equity,’ or ‘book value’ (the latter two terms are used to indicate a company’s net worth).

Search Engine Optimization, SEO, is so vital these days that it's impossible to compete without being well versed in the ways of SEO. SEO is all about maximizing quality traffic to web sites by targeting key words specific to the site in various search engines.

Americans spend a lot of time online. According to comScore, a Web data tracker, Americans spent 302 billion minutes online last month. What are people spending all this time doing, and which sites do they visit? We found information on the most trafficked sites from Nielson online, which measures online web audiences. Here's the list for the most visited sites in July 2008 in order from least to most popular:

20. Craigslist-30,210,000 unique visitors
19. Real Network- 32,034,000 unique visitors
18. Glam Media- 32,573,000 unique visitors
17. CNN Digital-32,573,000 unique visitors

In today’s dynamic corporate culture of new technology and innovation, one old-school skill is still in demand: golfing. Playing golf with colleagues, supervisors, clients, and peers can go a long way in promoting your business and career. It’s important to be prepared before you tee off: much of the business conducted on the course is implicit, following unspoken codes of industry.

So you don’t just want to make a decent amount of money, or even an awe-inspiring amount of money. You want to be jaw-dropping, filthy, spoiled rotten rich. You want to be a billionaire.

Turns out, it’s gotten a tad easier for everyday Bros to break into the billionaires’ club. Although the average age of international billionaires today is an ancient 61, more and more young people are cracking the elusive nine zero mark.

Yahoo continues to hold out against Microsoft’s buyout offers, rejecting the $31-per-share offer on Monday (04.07). Microsoft initially made the offer public on February 1, but Yahoo founder/exec Jerry Yang and chairman Roy J. Bostock wrote that the offer “substantially undervalues” the company. For its part, Microsoft has claimed that it hopes for a “friendly transaction”, but also has threatened to bypass execs and take a lesser proposal directly to the company shareholders.