News.Yahoo.com: During tough economic times, many Americans find themselves without jobs. Some have lost their jobs because of lay-offs, and cannot seem to get back on the horse. Those who are lucky enough to have jobs can be unhappy because it’s not what they really want to be doing, and settled due to the limited […]
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Fast Casual: Panera Bread has stepped up its use of target-marketing initiatives to drive traffic and sales, specifically focusing on its MyPanera loyalty program and brand messaging. The company’s MyPanera loyalty program now has more than 11 million members, said chairman and Co-CEO Ron Shaich during the company’s July 24 Q2 earnings call. “This program
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Franchising.com: Craters & Freighters, the national leader in specialty freight solutions, announced today the opening of a new location in Pittsburgh at 222 Commerce Park Drive, Cranberry Twp. The new location, marking Craters & Freighters’ 66th national operating center will be open for business on August 1st and service the entire metro area. “We are
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USA Today: A growing number of Americans are making Greek yogurt part of their mornings — to the tune of $1.2 billion in projected sales by the end of this year, says market researcher Mintel. And brands including Pinkberry, Ben & Jerry’s and even PepsiCo are all trying to lure health-conscious customers with their own
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Nestle is sending a floating supermarket up the Amazon river in an attempt to reach customers not normally exposed to normal retail channels: The world’s largest food company will send a boat with 100-square meters (1,076 square feet) of supermarket space on a journey to 18 small cities and 800,000 potential consumers on the Para
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NY Times: When Mandie Miller left her job as an on-air traffic reporter in Charlotte, N.C., to have her first child, she started baking cakes for friends, just for fun. The response was so positive that in April 2009 she started a business, Got What It Cakes. Ms. Miller put up a Web site, but
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The White House is asking for input from small business owners on what regulations are most burdensome to them and most negatively impact their business. In January 2011, the President directed all executive agencies to undertake an unprecedented government-wide review of regulations on the books, in order to figure out what is working and what
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Proteus Digital Health, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its ingestible sensor for marketing as a medical device. The ingestible sensor (formally referred to as the Ingestion Event Marker or IEM) is part of the Proteus digital health feedback system, an integrated, end-to-end personal health management system that
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According to the Sunshine Coast, the controversialconspiracytheory) Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is planning to clone dinosaurs and build a version of Jurassic Park in the north east of Australia. Mr Palmer has, apparently, been in deep discussion with the people who successfully cloned Dolly the sheep to bring his dinosaur vision to life. If Mr
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Forbes: Early in her career, Sarah Allen co-founded the company that created Adobe After Effects. She is currently co-founder and CTO for mobile startup Mightyverse and runs Blazing Cloud, a product-centric mobile application consulting firm. Follow her on Twitter at @ultrasaurus.
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