Franchise Wire: DALLAS – With the holidays just around the corner, pet owners are making their travel plans. While some may board their animals→

USA Today: McDonald’s the world’s largest hamburger chain, expects to return at least $10 billion in cash to shareholders from 2006 through 2008, the→

Biz Journals: Noble Roman’s Inc. said Wednesday that it has signed a development agreement for 40 more Noble Roman’s Pizza/Tuscano’s Italian Style Subs outlets→

Ame Info: Recognised as an industry leader, world famous Auntie Anne’s® hand-rolled soft pretzels, dips and drinks has established itself in the region having→

The Financial: Industry fund CARE Super is thinking laterally on how to reach potential members after it signed a sponsorship agreement with the Franchise→

How to navigate the prospecting minefield. The first words out of your mouth when asked about your business can be fraught with danger. Say→

Want more prospects to actually leave their contact information for you? Here are some good and simple marketing tips from Tom Schreiter (Big Al)→

Herbalife Ltd. said Wednesday that it would move its U.S. headquarters to downtown Los Angeles from Century City in 2008, giving a boost to→

Jody Victor of the Independent Business Owners Association International (IBOAI, www.iboai.com) announced the trade association’s recognition of Quixtar (www.quixtar.com) Partners of the Year Circuit→

Sales parties in women’s homes are no longer old-fashioned social teas or trunk shows. The saleswomen, who wield samples from jewelry to cookware, advertise→

Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP – News) and IBM (NYSE: IBM – News) today announced a strategic multi-year business partnership by which IBM Global→

MarketWatch: Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman has died at the age of 94, according to media reports Thursday. Friedman, one of the most influential→

GlobeSt.com: Though Cosi Inc. reported a loss of almost $2 million in its 3rd quarter, company officials said in a conference call that a→

Only four days after the console went on sale in Japan, eBay.co.uk has decided to prohibit users from selling PS3s in the UK. Import→

In a world where brick and mortar auctions are often accompanied by online catalogs and “live” Internet bidding, it would appear few considered what→

European and North American buyers eager to get their hands on Sony’s PlayStation 3 are turning to EBay after the first consoles started selling→

Slide Inc., a start-up that allows Web users to publish online slideshows of photos and other digital media, said on Tuesday it had received→

LATimes.com: For last year’s Los Angeles premiere of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Warner Bros. executives wanted to infuse the air outside the theater→

ECommerce-Guide.com: Results of the eighth annual CyberSource Corporation survey of e-commerce fraud, released yesterday, shows that U.S. merchants will lose as much as $3→

Rhonda Abrams at Gannett News Service: What do President Bush, Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, Cher, Patty Duke and Jimmy Buffett have in common? Each→