If you want to talk about a company with problems, Yahoo! would likely come up in the conversation. The once unstoppable internet giant has quickly faded away from the spotlight, and, worse still, it has almost faded entirely from existence. With angry investors, impatient media, and one persistent Carl Icahn, Yahoo needs to get its act together soon if it wants to continue being independent. There are a few potential solutions to all these problems that might help Yahoo to right itself, but they are few in number.

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Could you imagine having to subscribe to every application, every song, every video game, every premium website, and most other forms of content you interact with on a daily basis? Well, the possibility that this will occur is constantly growing, and if it is bound to happen, we should expect this trend to become fairly popular within the next 10 years. While businesses would benefit from the increased control, consumers might not be as appreciative to these change.

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What is Stardock? Well, if you decide to visit Stardock’s website today, you will see various things: my desktop, a collection of desktop enhancement applications; my games, a gathering of computer games; and my tools, a slew of tools designed to assist computer users. This is a vast amount of applications, but it is even more interesting in finding out how it all came to be.

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Zappos, a company that sells shoes, is something else. No, really, they do things that many companies wouldn’t dare do to their employees. What is this you ask? Well, they pay them to quit! Yeah, that’s right, Zappos bribes their employees with $1,000 to quit their jobs. It might sound odd, but it really does work.

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