Jul 12, 2013

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Best Buy's $21 Price Estimate: Key Business Trends To Watch
Trefis
Though the company has come out with innovative schemes to re-accelerate its business, the move has impacted its gross margins which in turn put pressure on its bottom line. Nevertheless, in the last two quarters Best Buy has shown improving results ...
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Waseca Chamber represents business, enhances community, promotes growth
Southernminn.com
Waseca Chamber Ambassadors, a dedicated group of local professionals recognizes and welcomes area business for their growth and progress. Ambassadors in Action. Subscription Required. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety.
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Portal Web Hosting Added Knowledge Base Articles of Their Services
Midland Daily News
Portal Web Hosting has opened this knowledgebase to help small business companies that have a specific need for web hosting while not requiring professional services, or lacking the means to employ a professional company. (PRWEB) July 11, 2013.
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Microsoft consolidates business in their big re-organization
Examiner.com
For a couple of weeks there has been quite a lot of talk about the upcoming re-organization at Redmond-based Microsoft. People wondering what it will mean for the software giant? Who will stay and who will go? Then before the big day arrived the head ...
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Jet-Etihad agreement may be tweaked again
Business Standard
The shareholder agreement between Jet Airways (India) and Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways is likely to be revised again, following concerns raised by the Securities and Exchange Board of India and the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) over the ...
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Drawback rate on silver articles slashed
Hindu Business Line
The Finance Ministry has slashed down the drawback rates on silver articles to Rs 1795.5 per kilogram of net silver content in such jewellery. Prior to this change, drawback rate stood at Rs 2,590.80 per kilogram of silver content in the jewellery ...
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Business planning - The importance of employee induction
Horticulture Week
If you have read one of my previous articles you will probably know that I consider employees to be a company's greatest asset and that they hold in their hands the success and reputation of the business itself. Induction: effective induction ...
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Unless You Own a Business, You've Missed Out on the Recovery
Motley Fool
But it's not a mystery: With wages falling and corporate profits still near historical highs as a proportion of GDP, it's clear that unless you have a share in the profits of a business, the recovery has passed you over. Here's why. Supply and demand ...
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Five Important Rules for Successful Business Blogging
Business Review Australia
But how does one leverage this online medium effectively to attract potential clients, staff, investors, joint venture partnerships, and capture media attention to their business? In this article, I will attempt to explain the main things you need to ...
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A New Liquor Deal: Whiskey Business or 1 Sure Thing?
Motley Fool
A New Liquor Deal: Whiskey Business or 1 Sure Thing? By Nicole Seghetti | More Articles July 11, 2013 | Comments (0). Don't let it get away! Keep track of the stocks that matter to you. Help yourself with the Fool's FREE and easy new watchlist service ...
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10 Sleaziest Apple Business Practices
PolicyMic
For more info see the Forbes article: "How Does Apple Avoid Paying Taxes?" 4. Colluding to Raise E-Book Prices. 10, sleaziest, apple, business, practices,. Via: http://images.bwbx.io. On Wednesday, a judge in Manhattan found Apple guilty of working ...
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Risky Business - Part 3: Insuring Your Store & Stock
Furniture World Magazine (press release)
Article Summary: Everything you should know to protect your assets including your store, showroom, warehouse and the stock/inventory contents contained therein from loss. View all articles by Stephen J. Wisocky: ...
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NYSE's Reputation And Derivatives Business Can Gain From LIBOR Win
Trefis
NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX) announced this week that it will take over the administration of the London Interbank Offer Rate (LIBOR) from the British Bankers' Association (BBA). LIBOR is a set of indices calculated for ten currencies and 15 borrowing ...
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Are Antibiotics On The Farm Risky Business?
KUHF-FM
Farmers give antibiotics routinely to pigs, beef cattle and poultry. They say the drugs help keep animals healthy and get them to market faster. Others say this practice practically guarantees that bacteria will develop resistance to these antibiotics ...
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The Madman Theory of Negotiations
Businessweek (blog)
Try this approach when you negotiate your next business deal: Start by being nice and cheerful, then flash some anger. Rinse and repeat as often as necessary, but always in that order. Never start with anger. That will throw your opponents off balance, ...
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AMD Offers Potential for Huge Gains
Barron's
... for Huge Gains. By DIMITRA DEFOTIS | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR ... The potential from this business, amid a weak personal computer market, is the basis of why Bank of America Merrill Lynch upgraded shares Wednesday to Buy from Underperform.
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Valuing a Professional Services Business
Consultant News
If you don't want to miss future articles where we'll be exploring all aspects of building a successful consulting business, register for the Top-Consultant newsletter to ensure you're alerted to each new article as it's published. Valuing the ...
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Climate Change: What Does It Mean for Investors?
Motley Fool
The Motley Fool owns shares of Intel and International Business Machines. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us ...
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Content IS Marketing
Business 2 Community
Content IS Marketing image content is marketing Working in the business development team for Red Rocket Media is good fun, particularly when the content that our team of journalists produces brings opportunities to us. ... The most common reply is: "I ...
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European equities' performance
Times of Malta
Equities strengthened over H1, the Euronext 100 gaining four per cent over the period. However, this masks a sharp turnaround in June. Having achieved a high of 760 (up 12 per cent year to date) towards the end of May, the index has since declined to ...
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Sales tax revenue for Killeen, Heights drops
Killeen Daily Herald
"Growth in sales tax receipts was led by business sectors such as manufacturing and construction," Combs said. ... You will see 5 articles for free before being asked to register, and then you can view 15 additional articles by registering or logging ...
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Business Blitz: Stock market soaring, IndyStar relocation, mortgage rates rise ...
Indianapolis Star
The Business Blitz, a rundown of the morning's business headlines, for Thursday, July 11. (Staff and wire reports). Stocks soar: The stock market is rising to record highs after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank would continue ...
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Microsoft reshuffles company structure
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
NEW YORK — Microsoft is reshuffling its business in a move that it says will allow it to innovate faster and focus on devices and services. The move by the world's largest software ... Posted in Articles on Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:11 am. Updated: 9 ...
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Grape in the Shade Vintage Shop Moving, to Stay in Washington Depot
Litchfield County Times
The old realtor adage about the three most important factors—location, repeat, repeat—will, she hopes, prove true with her business moving into a more visible and better traversed area. So close, yet so far—and with much greater daytime illumination.
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Teen Enterprise session set at Mesabi Range College on Aug. 6-8
Mesabi Daily News
... Community College Virginia campus. Students will learn how to run their business, as a hands-on exercise, through activities and in talks with regional businesspeople, University of Minnesota Duluth Small Business Development Center consultant ...
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Weekend Reading: Brunch with Debt?
Business Insider
We can dig our way out of this, but it's not by borrowing money and spending. It's by creating -- business, technology, companies, artwork, literature. Here are some articles I'm surfing in the press today: Paul Volcker sees Euro disintegration. So do ...
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Make Big Data Equal Big Sales
Destination CRM
Recently, Kimberly Collins, a vice president at Gartner Research, predicted that big data will be the next major "disruptive technology" to affect the way businesses interact with customers, and advised chief information officers to start thinking ...
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Local Coe College student recognized at 2013 Honors Convocation
Southernminn.com
Presented by Dr. Pamela Carstens, Roger and Mary Baxter Professor of Business Administration and World Affairs, Musgjerd was awarded the Dr. Ramakrishna and Janaki Vaitheswaran Award in Business and Economics. Musgjerd is the daughter of Dean and ...
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Business events scheduled for the coming week
Sacramento Bee
Business events scheduled for the coming week. The Associated Press. The Associated Press. Last modified: 2013-07-11T15:28:12Z. Published: Thursday, Jul. 11, 2013 - 8:28 am. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may ...
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Using Content for Ecommerce Marketing
Practical Ecommerce
Much of it applies to business-to-business marketers that develop sophisticated lead nurturing campaigns. But content marketing is also important .... Push yourself to create regular posts, articles, descriptions, and so forth. Experiment with new ...
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HP Stock Hits a New 52-Week High, but Upside Remains
Motley Fool
By Adam Levine-Weinberg | More Articles July 11, 2013 ... Despite significant improvements to its long-term business prospects -- and a skyrocketing stock price -- HP shares still traded for just 7.3 times expected 2013 earnings as of Wednesday's close.
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Ontario Principals' Council Honoured for Excellence
Wall Street Journal
smaller Text larger. TORONTO, July 11, 2013 /CNW/ - The professional magazine for Ontario's public school principals and vice-principals, The Register, is proud to have won three prestigious "Tabbie Awards" from Trade, Association and Business ...
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Consider Climate Change When Selecting Stocks
Motley Fool
Consider Climate Change When Selecting Stocks. By Sara Murphy | More Articles July 11, 2013 | Comments (0). Our warming planet poses an increasing risk to business operations, and some companies are managing better than others. For instance, NRG ...
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Dow Soars but Banks Are Still in Limbo
Motley Fool
Now that things are settled, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI ) can get back to business. Soaring this morning after Mr. Market regained his composure, the index is up 150 points as of 11:30 a.m. EDT. As investors begin to reassess ...
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State court hears newspaper's defamation case
Scranton Times-Tribune
Mr. Abbott cited an example where Mr. Joseph testified in court that the articles killed his airport limousine business while telling the state Public Utility Commission in a sworn affidavit that fallout from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks hurt ...
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Brunch Chat Cooks Up Verily
Fox Business
How: What started out as a light-hearted conversation between friends over brunch about today's women's magazines, turned into a business plan. "Most [magazines] didn't seem to reflect our lives or our philosophies as women," says Kara Eschbach, Verily ...
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Iconix Brand Group Stock Is In For A Boost With Elvis Presley And Muhammad Ali
Seeking Alpha
I have written several articles about Iconix Brand Group (ICON) and its portfolio of brands. Iconix licenses out its brands and receives payments for the use of the names. This business model cuts out Iconix need to manufacture merchandise or hold ...
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Ask a Fool: What's Your Foolish Take on This Enterprise Powerhouse?
Motley Fool
The company and its amazing business model are under full assault from a series of cloud-based businesses that threaten to upend the industry as a whole. Clearly, emerging powers in ... Be the first one to comment on this article. Your Fool username ...
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Pa. Superior Court considers appeal in defamation case
Citizens Voice
Thomas Joseph Sr. and his son claimed they were defamed by articles published in 2001 about federal raids at his Mountain Top home and one of his businesses in connection with a money-laundering probe. No one was charged in the case. In December ...
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MPEG-DASH: Making Tracks Toward Widespread Adoption
StreamingMedia.com
It will enable content providers, operator and vendors to scale their OTT business," he told CSI magazine in February 2012. In the same article, Jean-Marc Racine, managing partner at Farncombe, said, "By enabling operators to encode and store content ...
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Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, has announced a major reshuffle of its business in an attempt to promote faster innovation and a sharper focus on devices and services in order to compete with Apple and Google. The move ...
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Former Groupon CEO's new album aims to impart 'business wisdom ...
After encountering millennial workers with seemingly little interest in pursuing business writing, Andrew Mason is presenting it in a different way.
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