Economists often measure rates of entrepreneurship by looking at the number of small businesses in an industry or a country. However, in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Magnus Henrekson and Tino ...
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No-contract brand Boost Mobile became the second service provider to offer Motorola's low-cost Moto G 3G Android 4.3 smartphone, which Verizon also offers with no contract. The launch marks the first time since 2011 that Boost is ...
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Best Buy said declines in digital imaging, movies and MP3 players led a 1.5 percent dip in domestic holiday sales, to $9.8 billion for the nine weeks ending Jan. 4. The retailer also lowered its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings ...
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MagicJack VocalTec is rolling out a global brand refresh of its MagicJack Plus value-priced VoIP device. The campaign marks the first major marketing initiative under MagicJack’s new management team and is the first brand refresh in ...
Never mind girls and boys—adults who refuse to grow up are being increasingly targeted by a toy industry promoting adolescence as a lifestyle choice, say industry watchers. Among the "Smart-Tech" toys at this week's Hong Kong Toys & ...
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Wal-Mart, an American multinational retail corporation, is recalling donkey meat snack products sold at some of its Chinese outlets after it was found that they contained DNA of other animals. The retailer stated that it is withdrawing ...
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Strong sales of video games, TVs and Apple products, particularly during Thanksgiving weekend and late December, helped make Best Buy "the holiday winner," retail analyst David Strasser reported. Strasser, who covers hardline retail for ...
The Vietnam Trade Office in the US will seek to persuade leading US retailer Walmart to source goods, including apparel, from Vietnam in 2014, Vietnam Industry & Trade Information Center said on its website Asem Connect. Vietnam is ...
In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to the supply chain. This meant companies would be able to track ...
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Amazon and Walmart are issuing gift cards to some disgruntled customers after United Parcel Service failed to deliver gifts to their customers by Christmas, CNBC reported. In an apology addressed to both customers and shippers, UPS ...
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Jeremy Aguilar will step down as chief financial officer of h.h.gregg on Jan. 31. Aguilar joined the multiregional majap, CE and bedding chain as VP controller in 2005 and was named chief financial officer in 2009. He is leaving for a ...
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North American labor rights groups welcomed a landmark agreement, announced, to deliver an estimated $40 million in compensation to the families of those killed in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh and called on Walmart, ...
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More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of ...
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Retailers are extending store hours in the final days before Christmas to capture holiday holdouts. Related sales September Retail Sales Reports Vary sales Holiday Sales To Grow 3.9%: NRF sales Holiday Sales To Grow 4-4.5%: Deloitte sales ...
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RadioShack opened a pre-Christmas pop-up store in Manhattan's busy Penn Station. Related RadioShack RadioShack Receives New Financing RadioShack RadioShack Continues To Reshape Management Team RadioShack RadioShack Continues Store Revamp ...
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