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Shann Jones has used innovative thinking and unusual ingredients to develop her healing, all-natural probiotic drinks, soaps and lotions into a winning small business. She explains why passion, standards and value are key to her success
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Brazil's humiliating defeat in the World Cup will have no impact on the elections in October, President Dilma Rousseff predicts.
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If you are in your 20s or 30s, I can guarantee that, when you are in your 60s, you will look back and think "How on Earth could I have been so stupid?" No, I'm not talking about your decision to get back together with what's-his-name or ...
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Crumbs Bake Shop has a deal, which if approved by a bankruptcy judge, could reopen the cupcake maker, according to a court filing on Friday. Crumbs, which specialized in oversized...
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Shire talks with U.S. drugmaker over its proposed $51 billion takeover, the Financial Times reports.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The enduring popularity of menthol may be a big motivator behind Reynolds American Inc's interest in buying smaller rival Lorillard Inc , which has the best-selling U.S. cigarette brand with the additive.
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As big craft brewers move to the state and small breweries win world medals, N.C. is becoming craft's hotbed.
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The U.S. Navy maintains grounding order for F-35 fighter jets, threatening their appearance at two key trade shows.
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The General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM) has appointed Johan de Nysschen to head its Cadillac division. De Nysschen most recently led the Infiniti luxury-car division of the Nissan Motor Co. (TYO:7201), based in Yokohama, Japan.
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you are no dumber or smarter than any of your competitors; they can teach you a lot about your marketing opportunities if you pay attention. Copying Other people’s marketing ideas is fair game, as long as you gain insights into how they ...
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Chinese e-commerce company's board can be expanded to 11 members after Alibaba's New York IPO this year.
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Hailing from the sunny shores of New Jersey, Cristina brings a diverse background to the Mudderella team. From her days studying mechanical engineering at Dartmouth College to her time as a management consultant with Bain & Company, Cris...
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Where do each of the eight quarterfinalists in this year’s World Cup rank in education?
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To battle job loss in the UK, in 2009 Dilshad and Barinder Hothi setup The Knowledge Academy. It is a global training organisation that provides IT and project management training across all sectors to multinational clients and even gove...
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In the first Union Budget presented by the Modi government small and medium enterprises and start-ups attracted a lot attention with the Budget bringing them to the national economic discourse. The FM proposed a host of measures to encou...
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Harsh Shah, Farooq Adam and Sreeraman MG co-founded Shopsense, a device that allows to search for products in offline store, mix and match them and even share their shortlisted products on social media.
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Brothers Dinesh and Rajesh Bhaktinathan of Café Idly started a concept café that serves South Indian food with rock and roll music in Bangalore’s up market Frazer Town in 2009.
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(Reuters) -- A high-level female executive at Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has been sued in California by a woman who worked under her and is accusing her former boss of sexual harassment and wrongful termination. Maria Zhang, a senior direc...
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Air India formally became the 27th member of Star Alliance, opening up its domestic network in the fifth largest aviation market to the global airlines grouping's passengers the world over.
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Apple attracts nearly 400 million visitors a year to its retail stores, but former Sr. VP Retail Ron Johnson just revealed that only a very small fraction of those visitors are actually paying customers.
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Eighteen years after launching the South India AIDS Action Program (SIAAP), Shyamala Natarajan reached a crossroads. Positioned as a civil society movement, the organization had succeeded in proving their model. The more difficult, adapt...
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Amazon is getting serious about delivery by drones, and asked the F.A.A. for special permission to test them outdoors.
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The company said its April-June quarter profit of $482 million was up 15.3 percent from a year earlier.
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Humans have an unfortunate tendency to confuse causes and effects.
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Undertaking a company culture review and overhaul initiative isn't for the faint of heart. As a consultant on corporate culture initiatives, I can’t recommend a company even begin the company culture review and overhaul process if your h...
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Two of the brightest and most successful firms on Wall Street may soon get an F on investments in a for-profit college, The Post has learned. Goldman Sachs Capital Partners,...
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The Miami Heat thanks LeBron James for the memories he created and will be able to survive his departure much better than the Cleveland Cavaliers when LeBron left that franchise in the past.
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By Martinne Geller and Kate Holton LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) - U.S. cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc is in talks to acquire rival Lorillard Inc in a multi-billion dollar deal that would reshape one of the world's biggest and most pr...
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(Reuters) - Crumbs Bake Shop Inc may get a second chance if a bankruptcy judge approves a deal for the owner of Dippin' Dots ice cream and the star of a reality television show to buy and reopen the U.S. cupcake chain, according to a cou...
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Fox Business Network correspondent Charlie Gasparino managed to get himself booted from the exclusive Sun Valley pow wow on Thursday after two run-ins with security. The tension began Wednesday night...
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Wells Fargo said its profit in the second quarter rose 4 percent from the same period a year ago to $5.7 billion, but there were signs that the bank’s vaunted profit machine was slowing.
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Reynolds American and Lorillard see joining forces as a way to cope with the disruptive effect of e-cigarettes, writes the Deal Professor, Steven Davidoff Solomon.
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Plenty of meetings and one-on-one conversations, but very few clues of what was said at the Allen & Company conference of media and tech moguls.
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Tulip mania’s got nothing on Cynk Technology — the social-network wannabe that’s not only revenue-free but very nearly employee-free. Those operating impediments, however, couldn’t sink Cynk’s stock. That took the...
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When it comes to the FIFA World Cup, Madison Avenue is also scoring the brands in between matches, and already there are some clear winners and losers. Indeed, the face-off...
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Confronting a shrinking market of smokers, a deal would unite some of the best-selling brands in cigarettes, including Camel and Newport.
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Barry’s Bootcamp, known for its tough-love workouts, is looking for a little love of its own — but in the form of cash. The company, which offers bootcamp-style workouts in...
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Amazon asks FAA for permission to test drone delivery in Seattle skies.
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Lionsgate, the studio behind the “Hunger Games” movies, was hit with a shareholder lawsuit on Friday, alleging it fraudulently concealed a probe by the US Securities and Exchange Commission into...
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Tickets for Sunday's game to be played in Maracana stadium could fetch more than $20,000. FIFA warns that it will not tolerate scalping.
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In a ruling hailed by American steel makers, the Commerce Department says steel tubes and pipes from eight countries were being dumped on the United States market. Above, a worker at a steel product shop in Seoul, South Korea.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentine officials and the holdout investors it has battled for years over its catastrophic 2002 default met separately with a court-appointed mediator on Friday, emerging after five hours of discussions without a r...
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Taking a look back at the week in news across the Android world, this week’s Android Circuit highlights a number of stories, including Samsung showing signs of losing momentum, Xiaomi is onto a winner with a new tablet, ART is under the ...
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For The Daily Mail, its dust-up with Mr. Clooney was, in some respects, all in a day’s work. With a gossipy, salacious approach to news, its Mail Online become the most visited English language newspaper site in the world.
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After only two years at Nissan’s luxury division, Johan de Nysschen will lead Cadillac, which has become known for its revolving-door executive suite.
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The owner of a Chinese aviation company spent years taking data from Boeing on military aircraft and weapons, the Justice Department said.
