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To budding Internet entrepreneurs, May 18, 2012 was an historic milestone, when a 28 year-old programmer who started a website in his college dorm room launched the largest NASDAQ IPO in Internet history and became the leader of a hundred billion-dol...
Already It's been a busy month of May for the Starbucks (SBUX) corporation. A boycott, a bomb squad, a theft ring, a court ruling, a new opening in a new country, a major promotion on a national holiday... It's difficult to imagine what kind of ca...
Today is a significant date in both business and retail history because on April 30, 1939, U.S. commercial television debuted at the New York World's Fair, with the help of a signal transmission from the top of the Empire State Building....Read Full ...
A busy month of May U.S. retail industry earnings reports begins on Tuesday, as seven retailers will be kicking off the earnings season with May Day earnings releases. Here is some of the recent news about Avon, Big 5, Nutrisystem, Office Depot, Pap...
Reporters and auto industry analysts were given unprecedented access to the Toyota (TM) Motomachi auto manufacturing plant in Toyota City, Japan this past weekend so that Toyota could showcase new production innovations, and re-establish its commitme...
Social media photo-sharing webiste Pinterest announced in its blog that it broke a company record on April 23rd and 24th when it experienced its highest traffic days ever.  Pinterest leaders failed to disclose a number for that traffic, but ...
When the DiversityInc 2012 list of Top 50 Employers for Diversity ranking list was released recently, it was disappointing to see that there were very few companies with significant retailing operations that were considered to be leaders in workplace...
Consumer Reports recently released the results of a survey which asked 24,203 of its readers to rate and give feedback about grocery stores and supermarkets. Based on the survey, Consumer Reports ranked U.S. supermarket chains from "best" to "worst....
Stopping into a random Starbucks (SBUX) on Easter Sunday morning, I saw a handwritten sign that said "Find an Easter Egg and Get a Free Drink." When I asked about it, I was told that there were plastic Easter eggs hidden around the store and everybo...
If Liz Claiborne was still walking among us, she would have been 83 years old today. And perhaps Liz would have been pleased with the early birthday present that investors gave to Liz Claiborne (LIZ) stock yesterday after the Wall Street Journal rep...
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