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Recap: Apple Reports Profit Increase

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Recap: Apple Reports Profit Increase
Welcome to our live-blog of Apple's Q2 earnings. This is that magical time when we … This of course has been a trend to watch: Any time a business sells more stuff but makes less money while doing it deserves some scrutiny. For those keeping score …
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OBJE Seeks Out New Opportunities in L.A.'s Booming Tech Hub
Thanks in part to the proximity of Hollywood, the stretch of the city between Venice and Santa Monica is now home to about 800 startups that have, according to a report by Time magazine, attracted $ 1.3 billion in venture capital since 2011. Among …
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How Ford Applied its Management Toolbox to Charity Fundraising

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How Ford Applied its Management Toolbox to Charity Fundraising
At the center of the One Ford plan is the weekly “Business Plan Review” meeting, originally set up by Alan Mulally, where executives give progress reports on their assignments, labeling them as green for on target, yellow for in danger or red for off …
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How the '64 World's Fair Changed Us Forever
… than enough to celebrate without feeling America was just flexing its muscles. Nicolaus Mills is professor of American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower.
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Latest Journal Of Financial Planning,Blog News

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Facebook CFO Ebersman to Step Down Two Years After IPO
Facebook's chief financial officer David Ebersman is stepping down from the company two years after he orchestrated one of the largest, and tumultuous, IPOs in history. Mr. Ebersman is leaving June 1 and being replaced by David Wehner, who joined …
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Shale will be top revenue driver for most oil field services firms in 2014
UHY LLP and Oil & Gas Financial Journal said Monday the number of oil field services firms and upstream companies that pointed to shale as their top revenue driver grew by 15 percent over last year. And more than 40 percent of U.S. oil producers and …
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Latest Starting A Catering Business,Blog News

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Australia's Campaign Monitor Raises 0 Million from Insight
Since the start of 2013, only a few companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb and Uber, raised more money from venture-capital firms, according to data provider Dow Jones VentureSource and Wall Street Journal reporting. … The company is among a growing …
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Small Cap Value Report (16 Apr 2014) – ZZZ, LRM, RSTR
However, as investors we should note the past, but mainly look to the future, so when I recently spoke to new management at Snoozebox I was impressed with how they have completely re-worked the business. So I took part in the latest Placing at 10p …
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The Morning Ledger: Corporate Profits Outpace GDP Growth

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The Morning Ledger: Corporate Profits Outpace GDP Growth
Many businesses continue to keep a tight grip on spending amid uncertainty about the economic outlook at home and abroad, he said. The latest GDP reading showed the economy was stronger than previously estimated ahead of damage wreaked on the …
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Brookside roundup: No streetcar, new landlord
A crowd that was gathered at a neighborhood meeting in Brookside last night was informed by Vince Gauthier, a BNIM planning director working with the streetcar advisory committee, that his committee would not recommend that the streetcar line expand …
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Wal-Mart Cries Foul on China Fines

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Wal-Mart Cries Foul on China Fines
… in Beijing. Other people say Chinese authorities and state media focus on foreign companies because their operations are often bigger, their names are better known and such an approach can help set an example. … The Bentonville, Ark., company's …
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How To Budget For Your Car
This strategy makes repairs cost efficient and less time consuming. So do find out about … At Ford for example, in addition to offering Extended Warranty to customers, we also offer additional cost saving schemes such as a Scheduled Service Plan …
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For money-saving information, check your mailbox
My weekly United Supermarket sales circular. Nothing gets an extreme couponer more excited than a buy one-get one free sale … United Supermarket also came up with a super-saving couponing strategy by printing a full page of 50-cent coupons for their …
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The Morning Risk Report: GM, Toyota Recall Ford Pinto

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The Morning Risk Report: GM, Toyota Recall Ford Pinto
Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Rex and Alice A. Martin Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame, told Risk & Compliance Journal, “Solutions haven't focused on why it is that people behave unethically.” Weak monetary fines, she … Six years …
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The Morning Download: Why Facebook's $19 Billion WhatsApp Deal Isn't …

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The Morning Download: Why Facebook's Billion WhatsApp Deal Isn't …
The Morning Download comes from the editors of CIO Journal and cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning. Send us your tips, compliments and complaints. You can get The Morning Download emailed to you each weekday …
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CRM Watchlist 2014 Winners: Going Marketing
If we've gone beyond just the targeting of demographic slices (though this is still a perfectly viable way to plan a campaign) and how we communicate has changed and how we create, distribute and consume information has changed, then how we plan and …
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Boehner's plan to save Ukraine: It's full of gas

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Boehner's plan to save Ukraine: It's full of gas
“The ability to turn the tables and put the Russian leader in check lies right beneath our feet, in the form of vast supplies of natural energy,” Boehner says in an article in Friday's Wall Street Journal. If only it were that simple. No infrastructure …
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GV Financial Advisors CEO David Geller Named One of Barron's Top 1200 …
At GV, we have a shared conviction that wealthy clients have been ill-served by our society's dysfunctional views about money and by an outdated, wrong-headed financial planning model that is more intent on making money for advisors and clients than on …
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Calling all Supporters of Citizen Science!
While four committees have begun to coordinate planning, the Association is soliciting the involvement and leadership of future members. Membership requires no financial contribution at this point, and people receive complementary membership by …
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Supply Networks Get Smarter with Ariba and SAP

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Supply Networks Get Smarter with Ariba and SAP
To effectively manage complex supply networks, companies need data and analytics that go beyond what typical supplier management and spend analysis applications deliver. And this is exactly what Ariba and SAP provide." … Words such as "anticipate …
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(CNCN) Medifocus, Inc. Announces Million Second Tranche Closing of …
Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "plan," "expect," "project," "intend," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. Forward …
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The next tech revolution: Busting bureaucracy
Today, it would be hard to find a large organization that hasn't paid a small fortune to vendors like SAP (SAP), Oracle (ORCL), and Salesforce (CRM) for their ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) "solutions." Re …
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