Boston HeraldWe Never Need To Worry About The Future Of Journalism AgainBusiness InsiderThe New York Times's digital news business will not support a newsroom the size of the New York Times' current newsroom. As the New York Times' print ed…
Detroit's Skilled Workers ProblemFox BusinessGoodwill Industries has formed businesses in Detroit that it uses to train workers. An automotive supply business fills orders for Ford, Chrysler and GM, and a company called Green Works strips down powe…
Big business in chicken wingsCNNThere are at least 20 chains, and together they make up nearly 2,000 restaurants across the United States. Add independent wing restaurants, and the count might double. Wings were once the least desirable part of the bir…
GamingBoltActivision CEO: 'Business as usual' after pushing through buyout dealZDNet (blog)Activision CEO: 'Business as usual' after pushing through buyout deal. Summary: After finalizing a deal to buy back the company's majority st…
BloombergGoogle's Motorola Unveils Moto X Phone to Revive BusinessBloombergGoogle Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit today announced a flagship Moto X smartphone with customizable colors, in an effort to revive the business after falling behi…
Los Angeles TimesSmall-business workers' health care choices, ratesSan Francisco ChronicleIn San Francisco, businesses with 50 or fewer workers will be able to pick a level of coverage from a standardized set of benefits. Their employees will then …
Business InsiderAfter Snowden, no business as usual for US and RussiaReutersWhile the Kremlin played down any bilateral friction, Obama administration officials and top lawmakers suggested it would not be business as usual now that Russia has given Sno…
Los Angeles TimesHealth insurance rates for California's small businesses unveiledLos Angeles TimesSACRAMENTO — California's small businesses next year will have a range of competitively priced options offered by a new state government health…
UN's messy, billion-dollar peacekeeping air charter business hugely …Fox NewsFour years after United Nations auditors declared that the U.N.'s billion-dollar program for moving people and equipment on peacekeeping charter flights was a mess, …
NPRPrivate Equity Fund Eyes The Business Of PotNPRA couple of guys with serious investment banking experience are moving into the marijuana business. They've launched the first multimillion-dollar private equity fund devoted entirely to what they l…
Against All Odds — Launching A Retail Organic Foods BusinessForbesThe dramatic rise in sales of organic foods and beverages from $1 billion in 1990 to $26 billion in 2013 has encouraged many aspiring entrepreneurs to start organic or natural foods bus…
BloombergObama Urges Business Tax Rewrite to Help Spur New JobsBloombergPresident Barack Obama, prodding Congress to consider fresh economic proposals after two years of gridlock, called for restructuring business taxes so long as the initial revenue g…
Data For Dummies, What Does Your Small Business Need? (Part 1)ForbesIf you are a small business owner you are aware that data is being collected about you and data is available about your customers. In fact many small business owners don't realize …
Boston GlobeAppeal of weekend train to Cape Cod is growingBoston GlobeElizabeth Wurfbain, executive director of the Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District, said the train has introduced a new group of people to Hyannis — young bicycle enth…
RigzoneHess selling energy marketing business for $1.03BUSA TODAYNEW YORK (AP) — Hess is selling its energy marketing business to a subsidiary of Centrica PLC for approximately $1.03 billion. The sale is part of Hess' plan to focus on its explora…
AFPPfizer Settles Marketing Case Dating to Wyeth ConductFox BusinessPfizer earlier this year completed the spinoff of its own animal health business into a new company called Zoetis, only months after selling off its nutritional products business. It a…
Small business contracting numbers inflated by errors and exclusions, data showWashington PostThe federal government is required by law to try to direct nearly a quarter of all contracting dollars to small businesses, and every year since 2005, officia…
No Business Is Too Small for HackersFox BusinessWhether it's a state sponsored cyber war, a hactivist or your run of the mill hacker, small business owners have to be prepared if their computer resources go down. Most small businesses would survive…
GlaxoSmithKline admits some staff in China involved in briberyThe GuardianThe ChinaWhys website boasts: "Combining detective skills with our understanding of business operations and financial management, we assist multinationals to prevent, detect…
The GuardianSerco: the company that is running BritainThe GuardianFrom prisons to rail franchises and even London's Boris bikes, Serco is a giant global corporation that has hoovered up outsourced government contracts. Now the NHS is firmly in its …
Dividend.comPfizer to Internally Separate Generic, Branded DrugsFox BusinessPfizer Inc on Monday said it plans to internally separate its commercial operations into three business segments, including a unit that sells patent-protected branded drugs and…
Boeing Requests Emergency Beacon ChecksFox BusinessBoeing has asked airlines to inspect up to 1,200 aircraft across its fleet to gather data on Honeywell emergency beacons that have come under scrutiny following a fire on a parked 787 Dreamliner two we…
Comeback Kid: Former NBA Player Jay Williams Becoming A Sports Business …ForbesAs he worked on his broadcasting career, Williams also spent time in the athlete representation business, where he became disillusioned by the unethical behavior that he s…
Boston GlobeAdvertising in the Business of Big DataNew York TimesIN MERGER, AD GIANTS CHASE GOOGLE | The announcement on Sunday that Omnicom and Publicis would merge to create the largest advertising company in the world signals that advertising is now…
The GuardianSiemens CEO Seeks To Take Down ChairmanFox BusinessSiemens CEO Peter Loescher, whose departure was announced after he issued profit warnings that wrecked the share price of one of Germany's largest industrial conglomerates, may drag the…
This Week in Small Business: Pay CashNew York Times (blog)President Obama makes a big speech about the economy and says, “Washington has taken its eye off the ball.” A survey from the National Association for Business Economics shows that business …
Telegraph.co.ukUK Mortgage Approvals, Business Lending, DeclineBloombergU.K. mortgage approvals unexpectedly declined in June and business lending fell, highlighting continued strains in credit markets that may act as a drag on the recovery. Lenders gr…
Setting Exceptional Business Goals To Become RichForbesWhat's very telling is that most business people actually set relatively low goals. There are a number of reasons for this. By setting low goals, they can avoid feelings of failure and remorse …
NEWS.com.auApple-supplier Pegatron violates China workers' rights: China Labor WatchFox Business (press release)BEIJING – Pegatron Corp, a Taiwanese company that makes Apple Inc products, is violating workers' rights at its Chinese factories …
Business booms for asylum middlemen in Afghan exodusReutersThese days, most of his work is as a coordinator for shadowy people traffickers based largely in neighboring Pakistan and employing Afghan middlemen to aid their business. Demand to leave is so…
Can superhero parodies rescue the porn business?USA TODAYParodies, once a cheaply filmed niche segment of the adult movie market, are big business these days — filled with expensive special effects, real story lines, actors who can (sometimes) actual…
Business InsiderObama Disputes Job Projections For Keystone XL PipelineBusiness InsiderWASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called into question the number of jobs that would be created from the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in an intervi…
Hawks a cherished Wirtz family businessChicago TribuneSo Rocky's ascension to lead the family business upon Bill's death was not a surprise. What happened next was. Within days of Bill's funeral, Peter announced he was leaving the family…
Business Briefs for July 28The AdvocateHalimah DeLaine Prado, director of legal at Google, will be the keynote speaker for this year's Louisiana Looking Up on Sept. 12 at the LSU Business Education Complex. The event is sponsored by LSU Flores MBA …
Odds are your family business will not pass to the next generationAtlanta Journal ConstitutionRemarkably, only 15 percent of family businesses pass to the next generation, and even fewer survive to the third (according to a global study conducted by U….
Penn Professor Kenneth Shropshire to Teach Sports Business e-CoursePenn: Office of University CommunicationsFor more than a quarter of a century, University of Pennsylvania professor Kenneth Shropshire has taught students at Penn's Wharton School a…
Operator of Virginia 'doumi' escort business sentencedWashington PostThe business was called “Da Bong,” “Romance” or “Coco,” but the services it provided were always the same. For $70 an hour, an attractive and provocatively dressed…
Economic TimesEU, China reach deal to resolve solar panel trade disputeFox BusinessEuropean solar panel manufacturers had accused China of dumping about 21 billion euros ($28 billion) worth of solar panels in Europe last year at below the cost of produ…
Wall Street Journal (India)JPMorgan Chase may exit physical commodities businessWashington PostJPMorgan Chase said Friday it is exploring the sale or spinoff of its physical commodities business, as Wall Street's role in the trading of goods such a…
Wall Street JournalAIA First-Half Net Profit Jumps on New Business GrowthWall Street JournalThe world's fourth-largest insurer by market capitalization said in a statement Friday its new-business value, a key measure of insurers' profitability,…
Moneycontrol.comStarbucks Shares Leap on 3Q Sales GrowthFox BusinessStarbucks, which plans to open thousands of locations in the Americas and China in the coming years, has recently turned its attention to expanding further beyond its coffee business. …
The GuardianGlaxo Names Gisserot New Head of China Drugs BusinessBloombergThe company supports the efforts of the Chinese government to reform the medical industry and is open to looking at ideas to improve affordability and access to Glaxo's drugs…
The GuardianAnglo CEO Says He'll Complete Review of Business in Three MonthsBloombergCutifani seeks to achieve the $1.3 billion annual cash flow “uplift” by 2016 through $300 million savings from capital allocations on early stage projects, abo…
Joseph Abboud, label a perfect fit againBoston GlobeIt has been eight years since the celebrated Boston fashion designer walked away from Joseph Abboud, his high-profile clothing label, in a nasty business divorce. So complete was the separation that A…
Boston GlobeSummers steers clear of controversyBoston GlobeLawrence Summers, the Harvard professor and former Obama administration official who is reported to have emerged as a front-runner to lead the Federal Reserve, on Wednesday spoke about technolo…
German Business Confidence Seen Rising on Growth SignsBloombergGerman business confidence probably rose for a third month in July, indicating that Europe's largest economy is recovering as the 17-nation euro region tries to shake off its longest-ev…