Music legend Ray Charles capitalized on music publishing angle: he began recording a lot of public domain songs, like “America The Beautiful,” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” where he published the arrangement. Reuters reports that today, the Ray Charles Marketing Group represents about 500 songs from those companies, including about a dozen Charles wrote […]
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With all of the rocking chairs and antique furniture sitting around Stephanie Grenadier’s new business you might think this was more like a cozy room than a massage studio. However she intentionally avoided that spa-like look reports the PatriotLedger.com. “(Spas) have a conveyor belt type of mentality. It’s like in and out,” she said. “You
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David Nemetz and his high school buds grew up in Silicon Valley getting their sports info from ESPN.com. But the mainstream site was, well, mainstream. Where, they muttered, were the reports on mixed martial arts? So after college, the foursome pooled close to $100,000 from their families to hire software developers to create an “open-source”
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Mike Bellon, founder of Action Sports Toys, LLC, was inspired while surfing to create a toy that would allow children to mimic his moves on the water, reports The Village News. “I was riding a wave at Mission Beach when I decided I wanted to be innovative. I looked at electronics and computers, but I
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David Shunkey is autistic and around the same time the recession hit he lost two jobs. Now he’s trying to launch his own business reports The Wall Street Journal. More mentally and physically challenged adults are looking to entrepreneurship as they get closed out of an exceptionally competitive job market, according to several organizations that
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It was the viral ad campaign you wished your viral ad campaign would look like. On the Air: Marrying Twitter, You Tube, a rising TV personality and a hot ad campaign all in one, Old Spice made a unique online splash this week by posting nearly 100 video shorts in one day and approximately double
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According to The Patent Librarian’s Notebook, FreePatentsOnline has partnered with Technology Transfer Tactics, a website for university tech transfer professionals, to provide a resource for searching university-owned patents. Data for about 150 universities (mostly American) is available. Clicking on a name of a university will retrieve a list of US patents and published applications assigned
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Marketwire: Dunkin’ Brands, Inc., the parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins — two of the world’s most recognized and loved brands — announced today it has signed agreements with Chicago Cafe, Inc. to develop four Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants and two Baskin-Robbins restaurants in the River North Area of Chicago over the next several years.
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Bizjournals.com: Wichita residential real estate brokerage Mayfield & Associates has changed its name as its national franchise company undergoes a realignment. Mayfield & Associates, formerly with GMAC, now is a Real Living franchisee. GMAC and Real Living are owned by Brookfield Residential Services. In November, Brookfield merged GMAC into Real Living.
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The Spokesman-Review: It’s a full-size luxury car that is bound to turn some heads. Darla Kottwitz, 52, of Veradale recently picked up her new 2010 Cadillac DTS from the dealer. It’s a $47,000 vehicle, one that stands out when she drives it. Because it’s pink. Kottwitz is an independent senior sales director for Mary Kay
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