Business News
The Most Interesting Product Controversies of 2014
The New Yorker - 7 Dec 2014 17:02
The season of the product is upon us, which means mailboxes blooming with circulars, catalogues, and unwanted gifts, as well as closets crammed with iPhones, SodaStreams, Stomp Rockets, and GoPros. The companies that mak...
What It Takes To Work At Hooters
Business Insider - 7 Dec 2014 18:58
The restaurant brand Hooters recently turned 30. We talked to some of the famous Hooters girls from the chain's Manhattan location about what it's like to wear the legendary, tight uniform. Produced by Alana Kakoyiannis ...
Friend Quoted In Rolling Stone Story Disputes Details Of Alleged Assault
TPM - 7 Dec 2014 21:52
After the Rolling Stone managing editor on Friday said that the magazine had "misplaced" trust with alleged gang rape victim Jackie, one of her friends quoted in the article disputed some of the details about the alleged...
Courting Favor: A Hidden Coalition: Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General
The New York Times - 7 Dec 2014 01:21
Republican attorneys general have formed an unprecedented, secretive alliance with some of the nation's top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, an investigation by The New York Times has fo...
Tata Steel is buying iron ore for 1st time in its history
livemint.com - 7 Dec 2014 18:58
The firm has bought 2.3 million tonnes iron ore to run its Jamshedpur facility
India On The Verge Of A Tech 'Gold Rush'
The Huffington Post - 7 Dec 2014 23:23Alabama vs Ohio State Sugar Bowl Tickets Up 24% Since CFB Playoff Announced
Forbes - 7 Dec 2014 23:18
After a long regular season, the schools selected to participate in the inaugural College Football Playoff have been announced. After deliberation, the selection committee settled on a top four of Alabama, Oregon, Florid...
Using Electric Car Batteries To Power Schools In India
Forbes - 7 Dec 2014 22:00
Startup Totus Power uses discarded EV batteries to power schools for low-income kids in India.
New at the top: Taher Behbehani is chief marketing officer at BroadSoft
Washington Post - 7 Dec 2014 21:38
I'm a first-generation immigrant. I came from Iran and ended up in Madison, Wis. I went to high school there and was an undergrad at the university. There wasn't a master career plan that I had carved for myself.
One Big US Industry Will Be Happy To See Energy Companies Lay Off Workers (XHB, USO, OIL)
Business Insider - 7 Dec 2014 18:16
Laborers in the US energy industry are nervously watching crashing oil prices as they wonder what persistently low prices could mean for their jobs. According to a new report from The Sunday Times, energy giant BP has al...
The Most Innovative New Tech Products Of 2014
Business Insider - 7 Dec 2014 17:30
What pushed technology forward in 2014? Here's a look at our picks for the most innovative gadgets, apps, services, and other tech things to launch this year. The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has the best screen ever put on a...
Why Facebook and Twitter Alone Can't Build Brands
The Huffington Post - 7 Dec 2014 03:44
At the 2014 Grammy Awards show, fast-food chain Arby's trended on Twitter when it poked fun at rapper Pharrell Williams. His hat looked like the one in the Arby's logo, so the company tweeted, "Hey, #Pharrell, can we hav...
Cocaine And Fentanyl Mix Kills 3, Sickens 7 in NC
Forbes - 7 Dec 2014 01:26
Recreational drugs laced with the powerful opioid, fentanyl, have caused overdoses and deaths over the last decade, most often in the Northeast and Midwest. Cocaine or heroin combined with fentanyl can turn deadly for th...
10 (New) Insights On Language And Business For 2015
Forbes - 7 Dec 2014 23:11
Here are the newest insights on language that can help your business rise to another level in 2015.
Use nomination facility to your advantage
livemint.com - 7 Dec 2014 20:44
Nomination rules vary across investment products
Power generation growth highest in five years
livemint.com - 7 Dec 2014 16:28
Spurt in power generation reflects the fact that the fuel-supply situation is somewhat better
Here's What Made Friday's Jobs Report Extremely Impressive
Business Insider - 7 Dec 2014 16:28
Jobs aren't growing in just one corner of the US labor market. Rather, they're growing everywhere. "Job growth improved across a number of industries," highlighted Goldman Sachs' Jan Hatzius after Friday's surprisingly s...
Right-Ear/Left-Ear Technologies One Bar: A Surround Sound System With A Single Soundbar
Forbes - 7 Dec 2014 16:22
Left-Ear/Right-Ear Technologies has released the One Bar, a single soundbar that fools your brain into thinking you've got a huge 5.1 surround system. Here's our review.
Leadership, Customer Service And Sustaining The Customer Experience
Forbes - 7 Dec 2014 07:49
If you want to deliver consistently great service and a sustainably great customer experience, your leadership focus needs to be different from what’s required to maintain production capacity in manufacturing.
5 Things Marketers Can Learn From Taylor Swift
Forbes - 7 Dec 2014 23:56
Taylor Swift is an entertainment phenomenon. She is the only artist this year to sell over a million albums in the first week of its release. She is the only female artist to replace herself on the top of the music chart...
Washington-area appointments and promotions for Dec. 8, 2014
Washington Post - 7 Dec 2014 21:16
Companies Abt Associates of Bethesda appointed Jack Downey senior vice president for business development and new market initiatives. ADG Creative of Columbia appointed Jeff Cochran director of client services.
College Football Playoff Committee Gets It Right With Ohio State
Forbes - 7 Dec 2014 20:50
Alabama, Oregon, Florida State and Ohio State will take part in the first College Football Playoff. Here we give you the logic behind the committee choosing Ohio State over TCU and Baylor.