Fadi El-Eter

Many shoppers online think that a business that has the BBB (Better Business Bureau) seal is a business that is trustworthy, but, as I will explain in this post, a BBB seal on a website is worthless. Why, you make ask? Well, simply because of BBB's...

Yesterday, while waiting in line to pay here at Target here in downtown Montreal, I heard the lady at the cash telling someone that they do not accept American Express cards. It wasn't the first time I heard that - and I'm sure that's the same for many...

There was an article on LinkedIn that was published last Friday that praised Indro Nooyi's guidance of PepsiCo and claimed that Indra is considered to be the best hire in the last 100 years. Now I have searched and searched for a single reference that...

I love Target. I do a lot of shopping there and I'm really happy that they opened, late last year, a decent branch in downtown Montreal. I have to admit that I love Target more than FutureShop. But why? Well, the first thing that is great about Target...

Before starting this post I want to stress the point that neither I'm against motherhood nor I'm against reasonable subsidy for mothers and a reasonable time off when becoming a mother. I'm against using and abusing the system. Maternity leave is...

Webspammers are creative people. They really are. They work really hard to circumvent Google's algorithm changes aiming to block them, sometimes they don't succeed, sometimes they do. But on the long term Google will take notice of their change in...

Canadian banks are finding that Twitter is a powerful platform to gain more clients by going casual with their existing/potential clients and pretending that they are the nicest people on earth... Anyhow, I found it interesting to know how many Twitter...

My main job is IT consultancy (I do stock trading for fun) and, for a year now, I haven't used, on any of my machines, any Microsoft product besides Windows (and its built-in applications). Let me explain... The last 2 Microsoft products that I used...

Most of us Canadians deal with the United States and get paid with US Dollars. Many Canadians receive payments to their PayPal account in USD, and are forced, when transferring the money from PayPal to their bank account, to exchange the money first to...

Mobile carriers hate Whatsapp, they also hate Viber, Skype, and Tango. They hate them because the former stripped them out of their SMS revenue (SMS revenue has fallen for the first time for 4% in 2013), and they hate them because the latter stripped them...