Business News
Here's Why Nevada Gave Tesla Motors $1.3 Billion
Bidness etc. - 23 Sep 2014 18:20
"The Tesla Gigafactory puts us not only on the national radar for site selectors and companies looking for locations in the West, but we're getting calls from across the globe -- Belgium, Germany, China," said Mike Kazmi...
Sysco And US Foods Merger In FTC Crosshairs
Bidness etc. - 23 Sep 2014 19:36
According to The WallStreet Journal, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has accused Sysco Corporation (SYY) of violating anti-trust laaws with its plan to merge with US Foods. The US regulatory authority is contemplating...
Dataminr Scours Social Media for Hot News Tips
The New York Times - 23 Sep 2014 18:59
Dataminr, software that analyzes Twitter postings for patterns that indicate breaking news, became commercially available to news organizations on Tuesday.
Giving Your Employees Skin In The Game
Forbes - 23 Sep 2014 15:17
I was working with a business owner on ideas for retaining a key employee. The employee was threatening to leave for a higher paying job, declaring “I love working here, but if I’m going to stay, I want to have some ...
Amgen One Step Closer To Immunotherapy Market
Bidness etc. - 23 Sep 2014 13:29
Amgen, Inc. (AMGN) has joined the list of big pharmaceuticals trying to enter the lucrative immunotherapy market.
Asia cheered as China's factories defy doomsters
livemint.com - 23 Sep 2014 04:38
Asian shares recouped early losses after a reading on China's massive factory sector outpaced market's bleak expectations
Climate Change Is Single Biggest Risk To Global Economy - Paulson At CGI2014
Forbes - 23 Sep 2014 02:55
New York City (Kitco News) - Few were more tightly involved with managing the financial crisis than Henry Paulson, Treasury Secretary during President George W. Bush's administration. Speaking Monday, he said the stress...
Home Depot: Loved By Investors Despite Data Breach
Bidness etc. - 23 Sep 2014 18:14
The Home Depot, Inc. (HD) has recently been in the limelight for the data breach of almost 56 million customer cards. In addition, the home-improvement retailer reported weaker-than-expected existing home sales for Augus...
The 10 Things You Must Do to Make Hiring Top Talent No. 1
inc - 23 Sep 2014 14:00
Despite the lofty mission statement, most companies go out of their way to make sure hiring is not #1. It doesn't have to be that way.
L.A. small-business owners weigh both sides of a wage hike
L.A. Times - 23 Sep 2014 03:43Marc Chernoff: How Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Productivity
Forbes - 23 Sep 2014 03:22
I recently spoke to Marc Chernoff, who has one of the most popular personal development blogs called "Marc And Angel Hack Life". It has over six hundred articles covering happiness, productivity, emotional intelligence,...
Elon Musk's Companies Have Been Tanking, And He's Lost $1.7 Billion (TSLA, SCTY)
Business Insider - 23 Sep 2014 02:10
Tesla and Solar City shares have been getting clobbered. Both stocks are also down from their highs over the past month -- Tesla by 14% and Solar City by 20%. Tesla topped out during the trading day at $291 on Sept. 4 an...
Here's How The Obama Administration Is Acting Alone To Stop Inversions
Business Insider - 23 Sep 2014 01:32
The Obama administration on Monday announced moves to curb so-called tax inversions, the maneuver by which companies either acquire rivals or merge with them to relocate their headquarters to a foreign country with lowe...
Red Truck Bakery pulls out of Jim Abdo's plans for Little Washington
Washington Post - 23 Sep 2014 22:29
Red Truck Bakery, one of a bevy of businesses that developer Jim Abdo hoped to bring to Main Street in Little Washington, will instead move its headquarters to Marshall, Va., owner Brian Noyes said Tuesday.
Don't Fly Too High, Detroit: Cadillac Slaps Motown Back Down
Forbes - 23 Sep 2014 21:25
Another city, even in Flyover Country -- Chicago, say, or Cincinnati -- might not take it so personally. But when hometown hero General Motors announced that Cadillac is up and leaving and moving its headquarters to New ...
7 Tips For Being A Successful Social Entrepreneur
Forbes - 23 Sep 2014 06:00
More than ever, people are looking to pursue meaningful career paths. At times our vision of how the world should be is so vivid, we can’t resist the urge to try and build it ourselves. Starting a business has never be...
ISIS Entices Youth With High Salaries - King Of Jordan
Forbes - 23 Sep 2014 02:48
New York City (Kitco News) - Making youth a priority and ensuring their future is the key to settling the unrest in the Middle East, King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein told former President Bill Clinton Monday afternoon.
Outside the Box: How 'best wealth manager' lists mislead you
Market Watch - 23 Sep 2014 12:15
Assets under management are largely meaningless in helping you pick a professional, writes Mark Hurley.
The Wall Street Journal: Treasury unveils measures to combat tax inversions
Market Watch - 23 Sep 2014 00:29
The Obama administration went on a regulatory offensive against U.S. companies that move to lower-tax countries, issuing new rules that take away major benefits of the deals.
Alibaba's Jack Ma Is Now China's Richest Person
Business Insider - 23 Sep 2014 09:35
The largest stock offer in history has made Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, China's richest person with a fortune of $25 billion, an annual wealth ranking in the world's second-largest economy showed Tuesda...
Lyft acquires carpooling competitor Hitch
Venture Beat - 23 Sep 2014 01:57
Lyft, the ride-sharing company that recently launched a carpooling service, has acquired a startup named Hitch.