Topic: Business

Welcome to the Juice Wars

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If you think juice is something that comes in orange and apple alone, you are missing out on a whole world of juice. The year 2013 will go down in history as the time of the juiciest juice wars yet. Who will the Next Top Juicer be?

By Jen Doll

Apr 12, 2013

Women in the Workplace: New Poll, Some Old Numbers

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey reveals some disconcerting, if not terribly surprising, facts about how women feel and are treated in the workplace—things that many people already know, and many have worked to change.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 10, 2013

Will the 'Twitter Résumé' Ruin Twitter?

If Twitter is the new résumé, will any of us ever have a job? Or will we just stop wanting to tweet?

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By Esther Zuckerman

Mar 4, 2013

Trimming the Times

Chinese Hacking Motives, the Market vs. the Job Picture, and a New Oz

A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.

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By Jen Doll

Dec 26, 2012

In What World Is Credit-Score Dating Actually a Thing?

There's a piece on the front page of The New York Times today that's inspiring lots of "dating is hell" commentary from around the Internet, because from this piece comes the "decidedly unromantic question" of our time: "What's your credit score?"

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Nov 21, 2012

Hostess Is Officially Dead. Will Twinkies Live On?

CNBC and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that the bankruptcy judge has cleared Hostess for liquidation. But what of our little yellow friend?

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 23, 2012

Facebook's Making More Money Off Ads

Facebook's new advertising strategies are working for them, with the company's earnings report showing a year-over-year ad revenue growth of 36 percent.

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By Connor Simpson

Oct 23, 2012

Zynga Hopes You're Too Distracted to Notice Their Layoffs

In all the noise created by today's Apple event, Zynga attempted to quietly lay off 100 people without anyone noticing. Kind of like a Friday afternoon news dump, but with new iPads. Unfortunately for them, it didn't work. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 8, 2012

This Week's Social Media Power Rankings: GameStop Can't Stop

GameStop cemented its place atop the video game-buying world, Greenpeace banked on cute, and Levi's tricked you into thinking you like adventurous things in this week's rankings.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 1, 2012

We Know Why You Won't Fly American

People will always complain about flying, but one airline appears to have surpassed the rest in sheer high-profile annoyance. Thanks to epic delaysrows of seats coming undone, and a scathing op-ed from a literary star in The New York Times, American Airlines—slogan: "We Know Why You Fly"—may have sealed the title of the country's least liked airline.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Sep 5, 2012

Meet Gina Rinehart: World's Richest Woman (and World's Biggest Troll)

For the past few weeks, Gina Rinehart has been making waves in the media, grabbing headlines and angering people on all corners of the Earth with her blunt views on bettering the Australian economy. No she's not a politician, nor is she a development wonk, she's just filthy stinking rich and damn good at trolling. 

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By Jen Doll

Aug 30, 2012

A 'Deconstructed, Purposeful' Cigarette for Hipsters

Let no one say that hipsters are not entrepreneurial. If the new "organic" cigarette for people who ride fixies is any indication, hipsters are very much entrepreneurial indeed, and they do not want to smoke garbage.

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By Esther Zuckerman

Jul 26, 2012

Poll Watch

Business Owners Are Not Fans of Obama

Business owners are not keen on the job Obama is doing,  and "bubble state" Missouri goes for Romney. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.

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By Jen Doll

Jul 26, 2012

The Rise of the Grocery Store 'Man Aisle,' Just for Man Things

Since shopping is hard for men, and men only buy a certain array of manly things, an Upper West Side grocery store has launched what the New York Post is calling "the city's first 'man aisle.'"

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By Elspeth Reeve

Jul 25, 2012

Republicans Are Happy to Put Obama in Context

Mitt Romney has seized on Barack Obama's out-of-context quote, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that," but whether the full exonerates the President or not is what the election is all about.

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By Jen Doll

Jul 25, 2012

New York's Ice Cream Truck Turf Wars Get Ugly

It's not really summer if you're not complaining about ice cream. How could something so reminiscent of our innocent childhoods, so cold and so sweet, turn so foul?

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By Jen Doll

Jul 19, 2012

Artisanal Water: It's What You Sell When People Will Buy Anything

In an especially Emperor's New Clothes sort of twist, a new store in Manhattan's East Village is selling New York City tap water that they filter via a special technique back to discriminating water consumers.

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By John Hudson

Jun 19, 2012

The Monthly Jobs Report Frenzy Is Hurting the Country

In a revelation that should make the Joe Weisenthals of the world listless and desultory, NPR's Adam Davidson wants you to know something about the monthly media bonanza over the federal government jobs report: It's a sham.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Mar 29, 2012

When Anti-Government Becomes Anti-Business

Republican-backing business groups are nervous the politicians they helped elect might be so enthusiastic about cutting spending that they'll actually hurt business.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Feb 10, 2012

Romney: Out and Proud as a Retired Executive

Republicans have long denounced the liberal fixation with victimhood while embracing all its tropes, arguing, as Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have, that it's those in the Christian majority who are really being persecuted in America. Mitt Romney bested his opponents by going one step further, saying he would stand up for the fabulously wealthy.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 31, 2011

Cartoon

The CitiGroup Costume Didn't Come in Kid Sizes

Cartoonist Tony Auth on Halloween. 

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 28, 2011

Spatwatch

Lolcats Could Save the Washington Post

Players: Gene Weingarten, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at The Washington Post who doesn't understand lolcats (or readers' infatuation with lolcats); Ben Huh, CEO of meme network I Can Has Cheezburger? which gave birth to the lolcat.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Aug 29, 2011

Spatwatch

New York Times Public Editor Picks Fight with DealBook

Ingrassia defends The Times's Business section and DealBook

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By Ray Gustini

Jul 25, 2011

Markets Finish Down as Debt Uncertainty Continues

Nasdaq, Dow Jones, and S&P all lose ground, while gold hits record highs

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By Ray Gustini

Jul 21, 2011

The Smart Set

Cathie Black's Car Crash; Sotomayor Talks Chicken

Plus: what do you give the mega-bestselling author who has everything?

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By Ray Gustini

Jul 18, 2011

Borders Group President Confirms Liquidation

The bookstore could begin liquidation sales at its remaining 400 locations as soon as Friday

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By Erik Hayden

Jun 24, 2011

Go Daddy In Talks for a $1 Billion Sale

Private equity firms KKR and Silver Lake are looking at the domain registrar

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By Ray Gustini

Jun 16, 2011

The Smart Set

Dave Chapelle's Return to TV; Prada's Shrinking IPO

Plus: Spielberg circles a 'Jurassic Park' reboot

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jun 15, 2011

This Bitcoin Business Is Entirely Out of Hand

But it's incredibly interesting

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By Caitlin Dickson

May 12, 2011

Stat of the Day

An Insured American Family's Health Care Costs $19,393

Health care costs 7.3 percent more than it did last year, and that's not all

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By Erik Hayden

Apr 22, 2011

Celebrate Earth Day By Buying More Stuff

Companies are doing their part to help you buy more to save the Earth

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By Erik Hayden

Apr 4, 2011

McDonald's Singlehandedly to Revive U.S. Economy

It's going to hire 50,000 new employees on April 15th, and wants you to know it

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By Erik Hayden

Apr 4, 2011

Meet the Nuns Standing Up to Goldman Sachs

Four orders of nuns are looking to review whether executives' pay is "excessive"

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By Ray Gustini

Mar 24, 2011

Three Decades of Wall Street's Muzak Fixation

There's money in white noise

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By Ray Gustini

Mar 24, 2011

Nothing Says I'm Sorry Like A 24-Cent Netflix Credit

Company makes amends for Tuesday's streaming video disruption...kind of

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By Ray Gustini

Mar 23, 2011

Huffington Post, AP Strikers Get No Media Respect

Not much sympathy for boycott calls

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By Ray Gustini

Mar 8, 2011

Strange Bedfellows

Prison Labor Firm Will Sell You Plastic Cups and Patriot Missiles

At UNICOR, prisoners build everything, for everyone, in every field

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